Citizen Kane Citizen Kane‚ a movie that was nominated for nine academy awards and won the Academy award for best writing is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made. In order to understand why Citizen Kane has been so beloved in the world of film because of how realistic it felt although being a work of fiction or as the French call it a film à clef (French for Film with a Key) one must pick apart the all the parts that make a movie successful from its actors‚ lighting‚ plot‚ etc
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The acting between Orson Welles and Ruth Warrick‚ the costumes and sets in the table montage are just some of the elements of mise-en-scène that make that scene such a pivotal part of the film — it is in this scene where the audience sees that Kane’s power is corrupting his soul
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Edgardo Olivares TA 380 2/22/14 Kane’s’ Tragedy Citizen Kane develops many remarkable themes. Two main points are the humiliation of the personal qualities of the public figure and the second develops with the serious power of materialism. Taken as one‚ these two themes contain the harsh sarcasm of an American success story that ends in useless homesickness‚ loneliness‚ and death. The reality that the personal theme is developed vocally through the characters while the materialistic theme is developed
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“Maybe rosebud was something he couldn’t get‚ or something he lost” (Citizen Kane). The first motif; a rosebud‚ a representation of security‚ hope and the innocence of childhood. The rose presented within the film serves as a symbolic code towards the protagonist ‘Kanes’ value‚ which contextually we see he looses throughout life. Through close ups and low angle shots‚ the emblem of a rosebud is depicted. The movie begins with a frame of Kanes home in Xanadu‚ where Kanes lips mutter rosebud and
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production with (this) fine movie." The auteur theory The auteur theory holds that the director is the "author" of his movies‚ with a personal signature visible from film to film. Some hollywood studio directors with artistic distinction : Orson Welles John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Nicholas Ray Chabrol’s “Le Beau Serge” (1958) is traditionally (but debatably) credited as the first New Wave feature. Truffaut‚ with “The 400 Blows” (1959) and Godard‚ with “Breathless” (1960) had unexpected international
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Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1603–1607). She is the wife to the play’s protagonist‚ Macbeth‚ a Scottish nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide‚ she becomes Queen of Scotland‚ but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act‚ an apparent suicide. The character’s origins lie in the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587)‚ a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Lady
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tendencies and broke barriers in terms of delivering a movie that differentiated through such concepts like realism. Two famous films that have utilized certain techniques in creating an intensified form of realism in their own ways are Citizen Kane‚ by Orson Welles‚ and Double Indemnity‚ by Billy Wilder. The story of Citizen Kane and its main character Charles Foster Kane is actually loosely based of the real-life media mogul William Randolph Hearst‚ and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick
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Cinema 100 Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is hailed as one of the best films of all time‚ and with good reason. Citizen Kane is in the Film noire genre and is about Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)‚ who is the owner of a huge media empire; He dies in his bedroom at his estate named Xanadu. Clutching onto a snow globe as he dies‚ Kane’s final word is “Rosebud.”A news reporter named Jerry Thompson (William Alland) is interested in the life and death of Kane‚ so he tries to find some extra information
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JULIUS CEASER Julius Caesar (play) From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The ghost of Caesar taunts Brutus about his imminent defeat. (Copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven from a painting by Richard Westall: London‚ 1802.) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare‚ believed to have been written in 1599.[1] It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar‚ his assassination and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle
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Production design in Citizen Kane Meet Khatri‚ 5th hour By many‚ Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made. Orson Wells‚ at age 25‚ directed‚ produced‚ and starred in this film. This movie tells the fascinating story of the life and death of Charles Foster Kane‚ a narcissistic newspaper runner‚ politician‚ and a wealthy millionaire. What makes this movie spectacular is not only the acting of the actors‚ but the symbolism and cinematic effects. The techniques used by the cinematographer
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