Citizen Kane A review by team 5 (Robert Werlein, Keeley gray, and Nick Mackay) Citizen Kane, released in 1941, was written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles with the assistance of Herman J. Mankiewicz in writing the screenplay, co producer George Schaefer, cinematographer Gregg Toland, music by Bernard Herrman, and the editing of Robert Wise. Welles starred in his own film along with Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ruth Warrick, Dorothy Comingore, and George Coulouris. Citizen Kane is set

Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema by having many different points of view telling the story. Most movies made at this time had only one narrative while this movie does not. Having a movie have multiple narrators tells the story in many peoples view points. This gives the viewer a point of view from multiple views. So the viewer can see how others view the story as. Another reason is because the movie views the main character

Shot Analysis: Citizen Kane Orson Welles, director of “Citizen Kane”, is well known for his unusual directing methods that defied conventional cinematic techniques. Welles provided his audience with original forms of cinematography, narrative structures, and music. The scene I chose to analyze is extremely important to the plot of the film because Kane begins to realize that he is going through some serious financial problems. During the scene, Kane maintains a sarcastic mood, until he finally decides

One of the oldest and classic films in the beautiful world of cinema, Citizen Kane, has been released in 1941 by Orson Welles (Charles Foster Kane). Even though this film is an old movie, but its events, ideas, and mysteries are still on the lookout for the viewers to look at and figure out. When we talk about Citizen Kane, we are talking about a film with many ideas and a convergence of several symbols and inspirations that make the individuals think a lot about the purpose or meaning that the writer

The first scene we viewed in Citizen kane was of the large castle type house through the opening in a fence. The shot goes up the fence until we get full focus of the xanadu home. The scene gives us the feeling that the camera is being held by paparazzi because of the place it is being used and the way the camera is snaking as the holder is filming with it. As the scene progresses further, we get the view of two monkeys sitting on their cage fading into a closer fuller shot of the home. The scene

“Citizen Kane” is a tale of the “Charles Foster Kane”. “Citizen Kane” was one among the major controversial movies continually built up. Kane was one of the most controversial films ever made. Hearst, affronted from his representation, presented RKO a diminutive chance to wipe out the movie. When that attempt did not work, newspapers of the Hearst go aboard on an operation of denouncement in opposition to Welles, therefore demonstrating that the dishonesty of the press and the condemnation of the

The Film Citizen Kane was a groundbreaking film in the 1940’s, the way Orson Wells depicts his film with different lighting, cinematography, choice of camera shots and mise-en-scene throughout this movie truly showed the masterpiece that this film is. In the Film Citizen Kane, it was the first movie that went against true Hollywood cinema by introducing flashbacks throughout the movie to show us how Charles Foster Kane changes throughout the movie. Throughout this movie the audience can see how Charles

Citizen Kane is an iconic movie that changed the way Classical Hollywood cinema was viewed. This film had such a high expectation around it when it was first released in 1941. Citizen Kane was surrounded with various rumours of the movie being based on the real life story of the famous newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. However it was never clarified by Orson Welles that the movie was actually about Hearst so the movie could not just be branded a biographical movie. The genre of this