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Synopsis Of The Movie 'Citizen Kane'

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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 in the United States of America (for most of the film), tells the story of an empire directed by Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles). The story however is told by people who knew him in his past and the story is collected by Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane) who travels over the states to try and find the meaning of Kane’s last words: “Rosebud.” Bernstein’s journey takes him to old friends, Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), Mr. Kane’s old guardian, Walter Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris) and wives of his past, Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore) and Emily Monroe Norton Kane (Ruth Warrick). …show more content…

The dialogue was realistic. The theme present in the movie is “money can't buy happiness.” Some symbols in the movie are the sled, “rosebud”, which is the sled that kane had as a kid, and were his final words right before he died. The snow globe, representing how peaceful his life would have been if he hadn't been adopted by the banker. Statues, representing how he could never control people, so he bought statues so he could feel like he was in control of

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