Citizen Kane is a drama made by Orson Welles, who is the producer, co-author, director, and star of this movie. Citizen Kane was produced in the year of 1941. This film was made by trying to represent what the American dream is. What Orson Welles means by trying to represent the American dream by producing Citizen Kane is life should be better, richer, and full of life for everybody and Orson Welles uses film techniques to represent what the American dream is to him. As the movie goes along Orson

Marilyn Fabe argues Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, “marks a grand synthesis of realism and expressionism in film form.”(99) Welles brilliantly creates a foundation of realist characteristics and techniques, while at the same time, introduces elements and themes of expressionism through his innovative and experimental editing and cinematic style. Although traditional realist aspects were implemented in the film, it is Welles’s departure from the classical continuity editing and cinematography

Citizen Kane is one of the most famous movies of all time. It was made in 1941 starring Orson Wells himself as the titular character. The film was also directed, co-written and produced by Wells who was 26 year old at the time. In this essay we are going to look at the movie itself offering a brief summary and a depiction of its themes, how the American culture of the time influenced the movie and its plot and we’ll finally examine what things make this movie particularly revolutionary for its time

The movie “Citizen Kane” directed by Orson Welles is an interesting movie about a young boy and his struggle of life. It is about Charles Foster Kane a young boy starting from the very bottom, and making his way to the very top. The movie is about a reporter is trying to find why the famous and very rich Charles Foster Kane said “Rosebud” as his final dying words. As the movie goes on, the reports go around everyone who knew, talked, liked or disliked Charles Kane, asking is “Rosebud” meant anything

As the movie poster from Citizen Kane says, "Everybody 's talking about it, It 's terrific!" Though, what exactly is it that makes Citizen Kane the best movie of all time? Many, such as the New York Times on its debut in 1941, have acknowledged that "Citizen Kane was "one of the great (if not the greatest) motion pictures of all time" (qtd. in Brown). The movie is even in many top movie lists in rather high-ranking positions. The story is about a reporter trying to figure out just what the word "rosebud"

The director, producer, and co-author of the film Citizen Kane is Orson Welles. The main characters of this productions are Charles Foster Kane, Jedediah Leland, Susan Kane, and Emily Kane, Mr. Bernstein, and Jerry Thompson. The main conflict is Jerry’s troubles of uncovering Kane’s story. In this film, reporters are try to decode the last words of Charles Foster Kane. Kane’s life is played through flashbacks that start when he was a young boy and show his rise of riches to his eventual downfall

Citizen Kane Film analysis The film was very unique when it first hit theaters in 1941. Citizen Kane has many mine-en-scenes. The first scene in the film is the final scene. Charlie Kane dies within the first few minutes of the film. Then when it is over we see the scene we saw in the beginning. The movie is told in flashbacks. It was filled with flashbacks and flash forwards. A lot of reverse angle scenes. In the beginning when Susan Alexander (Kane’s’ second wife) tries to commit suicide there

portray through the movie Citizen Kane is the difficulty that goes into describing a person’s life after they have passed on. The reporter Thompson investigates Kane’s story and witnesses it unfold as it is told by those closest to him. Although this makes you wonder how different it would have been if Kane got to tell his own story rather than rely on the reminiscences of his colleagues because not a single one of these people knew or could figure out what drove Charles Foster Kane. The only person who