when I saw Citizen Kane the first time. When it was over I couldn’t believe my reaction. My hands were shaking‚ my palms and arm pits sweaty. I felt my heart race like a jackhammer and I knew I more than watched a movie‚ I experienced one. True‚ I didn’t understand all the complexities of Kane‚ but I understood the phenomenal acting and fantastic drama. Years later I would understand more‚ but in that moment at 13 I saw storytelling for more than a two-dimensional celluloid. Citizen Kane really
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Citizen Kane – The Characters that Surround Charles Foster Kane was a man of an egotistical behavior. Since he was robbed of his child hood‚ he never fully received the love and skipped out on the upbringing of being a child. This in turn stuck with him as he grew‚ believing that he could buy the love of the people through money and manipulation. He pursuit of power and control impacts his life negatively as he pushes everyone that loves him away like Susan. Kane evokes a sense of sympathy‚ as
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When looking at the film Citizen Kane‚ it uses mise-en-scene to help paint a better picture throughout the film. Mise-en-scene‚ better known as staging‚ is the overall look and feel of a movie (Barsam;Monahan p.542) The first example that comes to mind when thinking about mise-en-scene is when Charles Kane Foster is running for office‚ he is giving a speech and in the background is a large poster of his face. For the majority of the film there are very few shots taken where Kane is not present
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Subject Movie Citizen Kane is about Charles Foster Kane‚ and his life story and it’s kind of told by a reporter asking his “friends” order rather than make all them people whom he may have known deeper than just saying hello to. The movie starts off with Kane laying in bed and then dying while saying the famous quote from the movie “Rosebud”. Then it goes to reporters watching the news on the March which is a bit basically a short five minute documentary on Kane’s life. Then after that they saw the
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Senior Citizen Interview Amanda DiBenedetto PSY 375 June 29‚ 2015 Rockel Etienne Senior Citizen Interview In today ’s world‚ we have a very large demographical shift in population. This is especially true for the U.S. because of the baby boom from WWII. And because of this demographical shift there are older adults in our midst. If today’s society just took the time to sit and listen to our older generation then they would realize what they have to offer. For this week’s assignment‚ I had the
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Citizen Kane In 1941‚ the dramatic film Citizen Kane was released by first time director‚ Orson Welles. Welles once said‚ “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” With the attitude Welles had in directing‚ it brought him heavy burden filled with controversy amongst newspaper mongrel William Randolph Hearst‚ movie director Howard Hughes and Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull for the adaptation of these three personalities in the character‚ Kane. Upon Citizen
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Realism: Citizen Kane & Double Indemnity Movies have long been known to create a portal through which its viewers can transcend through their own realities and experience the unimaginable. The visual‚ sounds‚ and narrative of great movies immediately attract the focus of its audience as they move into a trance for those 1-2 hours of screen time. While many great movies introduce their audiences to varying experiences that heighten their senses and grasp their focus‚ some measure of relatability
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles‚ its producer‚ co-author‚ director and star. The picture was Welles’s first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories‚ it won an Academy Award for Best Writing by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics‚ filmmakers‚ and fans to be the greatest film ever made‚ Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound polls of critics‚ until it was displaced by Vertigo in
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The golden age in studio film making with movies such as Orson Welles “Citizen Kane “. When the golden age emerged in 1941 World War ll started and when it ended 4 years later it was hard for Hollywood to bounce back to what it was. The making of “Citizen Kane “redefined the look of modern cinema and changed forever the way in which American audience and film historians talk about the movies. In “Citizen Kane “Orson Welles used evocative depth of field (deep focus). Welles’s used this visual style
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Andrew Santilli Prof. Dettmer ENGL 1220-c1603 March 4‚ 2015 The Battle against Big Brother The poem “The Unknown Citizen”‚ by W.H. Auden‚ is about the ideal person that the government wants in their society. The man does everything the right way and always agrees with the government‚ whether they are at war or they are at peace. Although the man is a perfect citizen to the government‚ they do not even know what his name is. At the top of the poem‚ they refer to the man as “JS/07/M/378”(343) and
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