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Citizen Kane Point Of View

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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 as a regular person. They don't portray him as a heroine like most movies in that time portrayed the main character. During that time, mise-en-scene was used for most movies. This is when the actors and objects were in the center of the frame and

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