Compare And Contrast Citizen Kane And Snow White

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Citizen Kane and Snow White
When one thinks of comparing Citizen Kane to other great movies Snow white and the seven dwarfs is usually farthest from mind. The movies seem at first to be complete opposites. However the movies are very similar on many key points. Both movies were made at the end of the Great depression and were innovators in many ways, but people’s reactions to them differed greatly in key areas. In 1938 Disney released the very first full length animated movie in English and Technicolor while Orson Welles released Citizen Kane in 1941. According to History.com Disney fought a mass of doubters including his own wife in order to produce Snow white, she was known to state that no one would be able to sit still for that long to such a simple story. While pre-release Citizen Kane had many positive reviews. It wasn’t until both movies were released that this turned around. Snow white took in 8 - 8.5 million dollars in the first year and Citizen Kane only brought in 1.5 million. This can partially be …show more content…

(afi.com) this was the second adaption of Snow White to animation the first being a 5 minute long sketch staring Betty Boop. Disney’s own wife was one of the biggest skeptics warning him that “audiences, especially adults, would not be able to sit through a feature length cartoon about dwarfs. Without investors Disney borrowed 1 million dollars from the Bank of America. (afi.com). Disney innovated hundreds of new cameras, styles, and even musical scores to make the movie the hit it was. Many of the scenes in snow white have been copied such as the scene where snow white drops the apple at her “death” and the single lit window of the queens castle were both borrowed by Welles for Citizen Kane, the first to show the passing of life to death and the second as a way of foreshadowing.

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