Effects Of Citizen Kane

In the film Citizen Kane we learned the life of Charles Foster Kane, who is a wealthy news reporter. The first scene shows Charles Kane dying as he whispers “Rosebud” while the rest of the film works to solve the meaning of his dying word. The film then shows News on the March, which reveals Charles Kane’s entire life. After Kane begins building his newspaper empire, he meets and marries Emily Norton. Kane runs for political office, yet his personal life starts falling apart when he has an affair with Suzan Alexander. Kane has a flashback of his childhood, where he sees his parents fighting over money and custody of Kane, which in the end Thatcher gains custody. Kane meets and marries Suzan Alexander after he leaves his old wife, and shortly

The special effects in Citizen Kane were incredibly good considering that it was made in 1941. Although there were special effects in Citizen Kane there was no CGI in it. Also “Convincing make-up effects made Welles look both younger and considerably older than his real age” (Special Effects in Citizen Kane 3). In fact he was only 25-years-old when the film was produced and they could make him look 20-30 years older than he really was in the film. This proves that they really did have good special effects. Another thing to keep in mind while watching this film is that “Special effects are everywhere in Citizen Kane, but in most cases are hard to identify” (Special Effects in Citizen Kane 3). For example, when Charles Kane was standing by the fireplace in the hotel he rented and when he went up to it, the viewers realized that it was abnormally big for a fireplace. Another example of this is when he went up to the window in Bernstein's office and it was huge compared to an average window. It is just so impressive how they knew how to angle the lighting to make things like the window and fireplace look normal at first glance and then realizing that it is really big, also it is impressive how they had all the right makeup and other supplies to make Welles look older and younger than his real

In the film Citizen Kane they were basically reviewing William Hearst’s life the entire time. Back then people didn’t have access to movies like we do now, so this was a big shock for Hearst. This site even states “ Citizen Kane was a brutal portrait of a newspaper magnate William Randoph Hearst ” (William Randolph Hearst’s Campaign to Suppress Citizen Kane 2021). Personally if someone wrote a film about me and exposed my personal life, that would be something to be mad about. Shortly after this he attempted to shut Citizen Kane down. According to this site “ When Hearst learned through Hopper of Welles’ film, he set out to protect his reputation by shutting it down ” (William Randolph Hearst’s Campaign to Suppress Citizen Kane 2021). Even though Welles claimed that it was not a portrait of Hearst’s life, he did not believe him. Shortly after the film was shut down by William Randolph Hearst. The film did portray Hearst as an angry businessman and it was not wrong about