High Noon The director of High Noon Zinamen used a variety of techniques to create sympathy in the audience for the protagonist marshal Kane. In this essay I will explore a variety of those techniques including exploring how mise en scene, cinematography and acting and the plot place a key role in portraying sympathy in the audience for the main character. Marshal Kane has 1 hour 24 minutes to raise a posse to fight 4 men who are coming to town to kill him, the townspeople refuse to help him and this causes Marshall Kane to slowly deteriorates, although he defeats the antagonist at the end. Cinemamephotography and acting were used to create sympathy in the audience by using lots of close ups of Marshal Kane's face every time he was refused help. This camera angle was used because it emphasized how sad, defeated and upset Kane because none of the townspeople would help him fight the four antagonists. Long …show more content…
This is evident when marshal Kane returns to his office to write his will. The director decides to use black and white instead of colour because it is a sad text and this is really emphasized in Kane's office. There is also a very little use of props which emphasizes that marshal Kane is in a bad situation. The acting is very defeated with the camera focusing on the marshals face which expresses his defeated attitude and almost tells us that he knows that the end is near. This is a correct assumption because we next see the Marshall writing his will. The costumes also add to the defeated attitude and air about the scene because they are dirty which reminds us about his fight with the deputy Marshall, which further reinforces that he is deserted and will have to face his end by himself and die alone friendless. These factors again highlight how badly Marshall Kane's situation is and therefore creates more sympathy in the
Mise-en-scène, cinematography and editing are used in all forms of cinema. Within the “Declaration of Principles” scene of Citizen Kane, lighting, blocking and panning are three of the main sub aspects that work in unison to consistently demonstrate important aspects of the film. Welles uses these attributes to portray to the audience how this younger Kane is an important newspaper owner, with an even more important document. He creates a scene that has a heavy emphasis on panning to continuously preserve a frame that centers Kane while also lighting the document so viewers can constantly see the important plot and characters of the movie.
His character is largely influenced by his parents’ actions when they sent him away with Mr. Thatcher. Therefore, he is always looking to be loved, and is constantly driven by his ego to prove something. Kane takes everything for granted, and feels like he should get special treatment because he’s rich. Kane is emotionally insecure, a result of being abandoned by his parents. Trying to obtain power and status, he manipulates the public in an attempt to gain complete control through his newspaper. In his quest to gain power, he attracts many women and friends. However, his attitude pushes people away when they get to close, as a result of his using them for his own personal furtherance. Kane views himself as the center of the universe, and his actions are greatly influenced by his desire for power. Orson Welles created Charles Foster Kane as fictional character. Welles relates Kane to William Randolph Hearst, another powerful, rich man at the time. In many other ways, Charles Kane can also be related to Orson Welles, whose mother died at an early
After viewing the film Citizen Kane, it is clear the director, Orson Welles, created a picture unlike any other during this era on its release in 1941. The film is about the dying last words of Charles Foster Kane, a man who rose to fame from nothing. A journalist is on a mission to find what these words mean, and through stories from main characters, the audience is taken on Kane’s journey. Whether it’s the use of shadows and lighting, camera angles, or sound, Welles creates a picture comparable to noir films from this era. One of the noticeable similarities when comparing Citizen Kane to other films during this era is the use of shadows and lighting.
In the beginning, Thatcher believes that obtaining the newspaper company ‘The Inquirer’ is seemingly useless however Kane believes that this newspaper company can be used to “look after the underprivileged”. Emphasising the purpose and the ideals of Kane, however, this belief doesn’t last. As his paper grows in stature these morals begin to degrade. He starts to lie in the newspaper, which is shown in a line that was adopted from Hearst “you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war”. This parallelism provides the start of yellow journalism where the news is supposed to shock and therefore sell the paper even if the story is false. The start of the degradation of morals is shown by the chiaroscuro lighting as Kane signs the “Declaration of Principles”. As he signs this he is shown to move from the light into the shadows, foreshadowing Kane 's descent into corruption due to the hunger for power. This is coupled with the camera shooting Kane from a low angle symbolising Kane 's escalation in power which is shown to be the cause of the fall into corruption. The corruption of Kane is also shown in his relationship with Emily and the deterioration of their relationship. This is conveyed mainly through the montage scene which depicts Kane and Emily being close in proxemics implying initially the bond that they share however as time
Orson Welles ' introduced innovating editing and sound design in the 1940s with Citizen Kane (1941). Welles uses editing and sound to show the audience the passing of time, this is seen the breakfast montage. Welles uses sound bridges during the transitional wipes of fast moving images which fade into the next shot. The sound bridges act as links between the two scenes and make the time difference apparent to the audience. At the beginning of the montage Welles uses a slow zoom combined with romantic music to show the love between Kane and Emily. Both characters appear in the frame together with deep focus and slow paced editing which shows the closeness of the couple in the early years. This is juxtaposed by the end of the montage showing
Also, Welles furthers the image of how demanding Kane is of Susan and many others. Mr. Welles conveys the message that Kane has suffered a hard life, and will continue until death. Welles conveys many stylistic features as well as fundamentals of cinematography through use of light and darkness, staging and proxemics, personal theme development and materialism within the film, Citizen Kane. Welles prominently portrays his figures with a specific amount of light or darkness, stunningly affecting whole scenes stylistically. The scene at Xanadu establishes Mr. Kane as an overbearing, controlling character.
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Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane, is a significant and brilliant film. They knew that it was going to be such a great film that the slogan on the original citizen Kane posters said “It’s Terrific!” it may have been on the vague side, but it was certainly accurate thanks to its introduction incredible camera techniques, avant-garde storytelling, the use of special effects make-up, and new cinematography methods. These methods changed the way Hollywood films were made.
In a particularly odd method of presenting a story, the movie Citizen Kane takes place mostly within the past, not in the sense of being placed before our current time, but rather through the use of flashbacks. Viewers follow a young reporter as he as he interviews people about a recently deceased Mr. Kane, who led a long life as a business tycoon and a politician in the United States. . Orson Wells, the writer of this 1940’s classic, depicts Kane as what many would consider the perfect example of who it means to be an American. He is an intelligent, well raised man, who both pursues and gains greatness in all aspects of life. Upon his death bed Kane whispers the words “Rosebud” while holding a glass snow globe, a phrase that is quickly snapped
In High Noon the main character, Kane, is the marshal. He is the marshal of a town in the middle of nowhere in Texas. Kane has to protect them from Frank Miller, who wants to kill him. Frank threatened Kane when he was in the chair and said, "I'm going to kill you when I see you again!" So Will Kane was really scared. In the short story, "Most Dangerous Games" The main character "Rainsford" Is stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere, so both High Noon and "Most
The impeccable use of cinematographic techniques also heightens the film and aids to reveal character development. In order to properly analyze this film, an evaluation of the narrative structure, time, space, and sound must be done. Each of
“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine, some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.” - David Fincher. David Fincher is the director that I am choosing to homage for a number of reasons. I personally find his movies to be some of the deepest, most well made, and beautiful films in recent memory. However it is Fincher’s take on story telling and filmmaking in general that causes me to admire his films so much. This quote exemplifies that, and is something that I whole-heartedly agree with. I am and have always been extremely opinionated and open about my views on the world and I believe that artists have a responsibility to do what they can with their art to help improve the culture that they are helping to create. In this paper I will try to outline exactly how Fincher creates the masterpieces that he does and what I can take from that and apply to my films.
He is either blocked by shadows or just shot with his back facing the camera, as shown in this scene and the following scenes. As suggested by Bordwell and Thompson “the plot’s handling of Thompson makes him a neutral conduit for the story information that he gathers” (Thompson, and Bordwell, P.122). Up until this point, the newsreel has shown a purely commercialized image of Kane. Mr. Thompson is the device that is used to find a deeper understanding of the situation. This effect also allows the protagonist to still be Kane even after his
Many tactics may be used to make a film successful. So much so, that films by certain directors can be identified by the usage of these tactics, or traits, that are found to be unique to the films they produce. One of the strategies that Alfred Hitchcock often employed would be to “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” The audience can suffer in many ways, such as when a film invokes a question to be asked, or emotion when they know something that the characters do not, which can add to the audience experience in a positive aspect.
He is missing Rosebud. If you want to know who or what Rosebud is, then you will have to watch the movie. Orson Welles not only directs and produces the movie but also plays Kane. He does a fantastic job of bringing this one-of-a-kind character to life. The story, while simple, is very effective.