Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is often called the greatest film ever made. Its use of
film techniques often taken for granted nowadays were completely new
and had not been done before. Simple things like ceilings on the sets
and realistic scenes such as the newsreel, which would not stand out
in a modern film, were combined to make a film full of innovative
techniques. The director, Orson Welles, developed the use of deep
focus to make the flat cinema screen almost become three dimensional,
which added a realism that had not been explored before.
Right from the start, a viewer can see the innovation displayed by
Welles. The opening scene, one of the most famous in the entire film,
begins with the fence that surrounds Kane's mansion, Xanadu. This
shows how private and reclusive Kane has become in his old age, that
he requires this huge wire mesh fence around his home. The scene then
dissolves to show the main gates of Xanadu, with the large letter "K"
in the middle. This represents how, despite all his accomplishments,
this one letter in a circle can now sum up his life, that people just
see him as an old man who will not let anyone close to him.
Still in the first scene, the atmosphere of the footage, with the fog
shrouding everything, creates a feeling of foreboding and fear of what
will be seen. The strange images of the boats and the monkeys
particularly provoke uneasiness in an audience. The music also helps
the effect, with its threatening sound clearly telling the audience
that this is not the nicest place to be.
As the camera comes closer to the house with each shot, we become
aware of a single light shining in one solita...
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...le in a different way. This can feel strange to a modern viewer,
and I found myself watching some of the interview scenes especially,
just waiting for the camera to change, even just for a close-up, but
it rarely does.
A scene from the newsreel gives a good overall impression of the film.
When Thatcher is shown calling Kane a communist, a union leader
declares him a fascist, and Kane refers to himself as "One thing only-
an American." These different views of Kane are symbolic of the way we
only get what people who knew him thought of him, and as the newsreel
director said, "what he did." We never find out the real truth, only
other people's views, and although clues are given (after all, not
many would believe that this cold businessman would so fondly keep his
childhood sledge) we never really know the man himself.
...ts his readers to experience how dreadful life came to be, and all hopes of a normal life were long gone.
left unknown to the readers and himself to go on both a physical journey as
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Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ cinematic classic, is a film that centers on a group of reporter’s investigation into the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s last uttered word, “Rosebud.” Citizen Kane ' brings into light many social problems between countries, relationships, and also between competing newspaper companies. It brings into light how a newspaper should react and also brings the corruption of politics. War was breaking out in Europe and throughout the entire film Kane states there will be no war. He ignores the fact people are being killed, tortured, and rounded up like livestock.
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The cast members were classically trained theatrical actors, and none had ever made a movie. While there are many unimpressive performances in Citizen Kane none of them were weak. It was filled with an A-rate cast and the actors worked together well as an ensemble. Perhaps, no performance was better than Orson Welles portraying all of Kane’s walks of life. From young and charismatic, to middle aged somber and assuming the end justified the mean instead of arguing it, to old quiet and wounded a man who had fought and lost time and time again Orson Welles delivers stunningly convincing performances at every “age”.
Essay #2: Citizen Kane Review Orson Welles’ production of Citizen Kane revolutionized filmmaking by mastering the art of using cutting edge techniques to make it one of the most revolutionary and groundbreaking films in the history of movies. Citizen Kane, released in 1941, is thought to be the single most revolutionary and groundbreaking film in the history of movies (Rotten Tomatoes). Welles used many techniques in the production of the film that were never even thought of before that point. In this way, the film Citizen Kane is an extremely innovative film and definitely pushes the limits of its genre at the time. Welles completely changed the course of the production of film by introducing a completely new way of writing, directing, and through his use of techniques.
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