There are many reasons as to why one of the greatest Hollywood movies of all time, Citizen Kane, is still watched and studied today by audiences in colleges, universities, public schools, and many more. Citizen Kane was produced in the year 1941 by Hollywood Director, Orson Welles. It is an American mystery drama which not only leaves the audience spellbound by its script, but also gives us the knowledge that we all need in the world today. I watched it in class and I thought it was the best movie I've seen in my life!!
The way that the film is directed- from the screenwriting to the dialogues to the movie effects- all contribute to it becoming the greatest H-wood film of all time. Orson Welles shows his genius side in creating this film;
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It says, "But the theme in Citizen Kane that most speaks to me is that of egoism masquerading as selfless love, illustrated in the scenes in which Kane tries to live vicariously through his new, much younger wife. She expresses an interest in singing, so he pushes her to become an opera singer—and, predictably, disappointment and heartbreak follow. Ah, the bullheadedness of smothering love and the sad fact that we most hurt those we adore" (Eckblad). This reason has to be the main reason behind the success of this film and its influence that is still alive today. Kane wants to become more successful through his wife. He is aware that she is not a good singer, but still forces her to sing opera. He decides to open a grandiose opera theater for her. This has to be the idea of a genius!! Another reason is the charisma of Welles. By watching the film, I fell in love with Olson!! His attitude, personality, charisma, style, stature, wittiness, and intelligence, would make any girl fall in love with him! The article says, "Norman Mailer once wrote that nobody in Hollywood up to that point had seen any man quite so beautiful as Orson Welles; the cocked eyebrow, the rakish grin, the sparkling eyes! Welles had charisma—the kind of charisma that all contemporary males lack" …show more content…
Some of the characteristics of Classical Hollywood films were: 1) its narrative 2) editing (continuity editing) 3) cinematic space and time. All of this is seen in Citizen Kane. "In Classical Hollywood Cinema, narrative follows building blocks that are part and parcel of most Western narratives such as events, actors and agents, linear chains of cause and effect, main point and secondary points. The narrative is clearly structured with discernable beginning middle and end. The narrative generally provides comprehensive resolution at the end. The characters goals are usually psychologically rather than socially motivated" (Classical Hollywood Cinema). You can see this kind of narrative in the plot of Citizen Kane. It is undoubtedly a well-prepared and structured film. Its flow makes you want to watch it frequently. "Maybe the single most important and most influential element of cinematic form that characterizes classical Hollywood cinema is continuity editing. The most important goal of continuity editing is to make the cut invisible. This is achieved by devices such as the shot / reverse-shot or the eye line match. The editing is subservient to the flow of the narrative and is usually constructed in a way that it does not draw attention onto itself" (Classical Hollywood Cinema). All of this is seen in Citizen
See, Star Wars (Lucas, George) is also known as an amazing movie for similar reasons, except it did not affect the cinema industry as much as Citizen Kane did. Basically, Citizen Kane incorporates everything that was possible in sound film up to that point. It portrays brand new
As you can see ladies and gentlemen, the presentation of events, lighting, sound mis en scene, chiascuro lighting and cinematic techniques were all more formative in the essence of the narrative, rather than the story itself. “Mr Kane was a man who had lost everything he had”. Ladies and gentlemen of the board of studies as you know I’m here to promote to you how important and appropriate Citizen Kane is as a core text. Citizen Kane, a black and white 1941 film from director Orson Welles explores the notion of
In 1941 the RKO studies and Orson Welles, co-writer and director, released, Citizen Kane. The plot of Citizen Kane follows Mr. Jerry Thompson, a reporter, as he searches for the meaning behind the final word of Mr. Charles Foster Kane's, “Rosebud.” Mr. Thompson makes his way around to the main people in Kane's life, including Mr. Walter Parks Thatcher, the childhood guardian of Kane, and Mr. Thatcher's memoirs. Within Mr. Thatcher's memoirs, Mr. Thompson came upon the story that surrounds this particular frame. The story recalls the day when Kane finds himself relinquishing control of his newspaper to Thatcher & Company in order to be able to survive The Great Depression.
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 Foster Kane undergoes a variety of physical and emotional changes from when he was just a young boy all the way until his unfortunate death. Power, that’s all that Kane wanted in the start of the film. In the beginning of the film Kane gets ownership of the struggling New York Daily Inquirer, Kane suggests that he wanted to use journalism to apply to the public and protect the interest of ordinary people.
Film has certain limitations like time, imagination, and the need to collaborate with many people and work together. Sometimes films don’t tell the story very well because the filmmaker can change the story and change what happens. A film sometimes
Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema mainly in the area of sound. Orson Welles was ahead of his time when he created his works of manipulating sound to transfer meaning in the film Citizen Kane. Welles used concealed hanging microphones to obtain different levels of sound throughout the film. The manner, in which the story was told, from Kane’s death flashbacked to his life of success and ultimate failure, was also a new style of storytelling for films. Welles also used symbolism with his last mumbling word “Rosebud.”
The themes that are most prevalent in Citizen Kane are the American Dream, power and egotism. When this movie was released in the 1940s, the American Dream was supposed to have a positive connotation attached to it. It was supposed to be what every
The movie overlaps the interviews to tell the life story of Kane while the flashbacks are doing the storytelling. The story is not told in chronologic manor, uses several techniques to tell the story of Kane. The angles used to portray certain scenes, getting all of views in, having lighting changes, shadows are all creative to the movie and introducing these techniques into Hollywood
In this critique we'll be looking at some of the technical, artistic, and filmic merits in Citizen Kane. Welles and his team were extremely innovative and set precedence with certain techniques they used.
Citizen Kane story is using different points of view and is making a classification of narrative in the film. This movie is a revolution for Hollywood in the idea of a singl story teller and uses multple narrators to expose Kane's life. In every shot of the movie we see the different part of Charles Foster Kane's life in the different narrator story parts. A singl narrative in the bigining of the movie is follow with the different narrative which tell the Kane's life in different shots. Too many storis arrange and understand Kane's life and in this point narrative is a way of structuring, to engage us with cinematic structure.
The methods used when producing Citizen Kane such as; the narrative structure, deep focus, flashbacks and long takes, are what made this an
Two films, although created years apart yet have a lot in common, including their content of it’s narrative techniques. Both films, even though black and white with strokes of genius of cinema offer a vast stretch for study. I will be looking at Sir Orson Welles “Citizen Kane” (1941) and Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” (1950). We see in Citizen Kane he values for the American life. The three abstract themes that constantly follow through Citizen Kane are Wealth, Power and Love.
Citizen Kane has been the critics choice for a number of years now, however I found that it was nothing special. While its cinematography and acting are superb the story is a tangled mess with seemingly little direction or reason. With that being said the symbolism is well presented and conveys a good message about what happens when capitalism meets socialism. That symbolism is was what kept me watching the film despite how poorly the story was written and I believe that the symbolism is the reason why Citizen Kane remains the number one critics choice. Citizen Kane is brought to us by Orson Welles and follows the reporter Jerry Thompson (William Alland) as he tries to learn about the life of the famous Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) and
The goal is to always catch everyone’s attention; do something that has yet to be done. This is how one’s legacy will influence an entire industry. When a person has the ability to change the game, to improve the experience, that is when brilliance is seen in the making. This was the exact approach Orson Welles took when presenting the world with Citizen Kane. His innovation in turn challenged all elements of classic Hollywood cinema—most of all the films plot structure, sound and deep-focus cinematography.
Citizen Kane is a story that tells us about Charles Foster Kane, a fictional character. For me, Citizen Kane is a tragedy, because Charles Foster Kane , the protagonist of story, he was a rich man and had everything in life that all of the people dreaming. But he had the problems with the married life, when he got married twice, but still find the happiness in in his family, and the family was the causes for all the troubles that he had. At the end of the story, when the second wife left him, we can see that he is a poor man, when he tried to do everything to keep that wife and make her happy , but she still left him. So for me, Charles Foster Kane was a great man, because he reached the peak of his career, he got everything that all of the