Orson Welles 	Orson Welles was an actor, producer, director, writer, and columnist who revolutionized the film industry by directing movies that depicted men and woman as real human beings. Throughout his writing career, Welles’ characters reflected his own personality and inspired others to write about human struggles, both good and bad. An innovative, dynamic individual, Welles spent his entire life experimenting with different mediums and bringing to the world his vision of man’s never ending
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane Having success the first time around is very uncommon. Orson Welles's first feature film richly realizes the full potential of excellent craftsmanship. Citizen Kane is almost indisputably the greatest achievement in the history of filming. In 1941, this film was considered by many as the best film ever made. This film is about the enormous conflict between two twentieth-century icons, publisher William Randolph Hearst and the prodigy of his time, Orson Welles
The Theatre of Orson Welles "I would have been more successful if I'd left movies immediately, stayed in the theater, gone into politics, written, anything”(Cramer). This quote from Orson Welles during an interview in 1982 produces questions about the career of one of the most celebrated filmmakers of the twentieth century. How could the director of Citizen Kane, the movie cherished as the best movie of last century, wished for his life to be void of the cinema? How could he wish to have continued
Orson Welles’ career took place in the mid-thirties to late eighties in the twentieth century. He began his career at age fifteen, starting in Ireland, making his acting debut in the Gate Theater in Dublin. By eighteen, Welles started to appear in off-Broadway productions. It was then that he also launched his radio career. By age twenty, he had presented alternate interpretations of certain well-known plays and movies. At age twenty-two he was the most notable Broadway star from Mercury Theater
a form of entertainment. The film is the greatest medium since the invention of movable type for exchanging ideas and information, and it is no more at its best in light entertainment than literature is at its best in the light novel.” - Orson Welles Orson Welles was passionate about film. By the young age of 25, he had directed, produced, and starred in what is today considered by most to be the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane. About a year later, Welles began work on his next film project
Hello, My Name Is Orson Welles Orson Welles liked to reuse certain elements throughout his films. He liked a good deep focus shot. He liked low key lighting. He liked the grotesque side of life, blocking actors in groups of three, low camera angles and especially pointy bras. He also liked to open his movies in a certain predictable way. In Citizen Kane, he used the announcer in "News on the March" to introduce the subject and main character, Charles Foster Kane. In The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles
I first saw Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane when I was eight years old, and I remember complaining to my parents about how boring it was, but I still managed to sit through the whole movie. As I watched the film again for the second time as an adult, I really enjoyed it, because I was able to follow and understand the plot line. Even though I saw the movie about twelve years ago, most of the scenes’ images were still fresh in my memory. As a child I was unable to keep up with the narrative, but certain
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is one of the first modern sound films. However, it was innovative in more than just sound, it introduced various cinematography techniques and structural ideas. With the help of Barry Fesler and Jamos D. Stewart, Welles introduced subjects such as deep focus sound, the use of voice texture, and the “lighting mix.” Moreover, he explored different camera angles, deep focus photography, elaborated on fluid continuity, and experimented with structure. Citizen Kane was produced
Citizen Kane (CK), directed by Orson Welles in 1941, is a dramatic film which explores the corrupting nature of power due to an individual’s vanity which gradually leads to the collapse of one’s moral compass, as well as the futile search of his identity lost amongst his possessions. By incorporating multiplicity of perspectives on Kane’s life, Welles effectively communicates this message through the innovative cinematography and structure to the contemporary audiences. In CK, Welles conveys how
Coward Kane Orson Welles created a masterpiece. Orson Welles created Citizen Kane. Orson Welles created a change. Orson Welles created. Like the series of sentences jigsawed together, Citizen Kane is a film with a plot infused with build- ups of megalomaniac Kane’s life is what rhetorically drew in the audience. Through the realistic relationships of Charles Kane the audience were given the taste of an accumulated story line of who he was. Welles infiltrated the subconscious of his viewers through
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
effective textual reflection of this struggle for identity (as a universal human concern) within literature is what elevates certain works above the boundaries of context and allows them to tap into and resonate with the general human consciousness). Orson Welles’ revolutionary film Citizen Kane (1941) examines the psychologically damaging effects of parental neglect and the morally corruptive impacts of an unchecked pursuit for power and influence. However, the prevailing notion posited through the
In your view, how does Welles’ portrayal of the complex nature of happiness contribute to the enduring value of Citizen Kane? Orson Welles’ portrayal of happiness in ‘Citizen Kane’ shows the enduring value of the film as happiness is an emotion that is not only sought after by Mr Kane but also by all of humanity. Citizen Kane reflects the life of Mr Kane who tries pave over the void that has been created by losing the emotion of happiness. This is portrayed through his yearning to relieve his childhood
The book I read is called Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. This book is the third in a quartet that chronicles the life of a man called Ender and his sister Valentine. In this book, both Ender and Valentine are over 3000 years old thanks to faster-than-light-travel and Einstein’s theory of relativity. Ender is known through out the universe as Ender the Xenocide for destroying the Bugger race 3000 years earlier. His sister Valentine is equally famous for her writings under the name Demonsthes.
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
The nature of ego is a fundamental concept in Orson Welles’ 1941 film ‘Citizen Kane’. Through presenting the life of Charles Foster Kane, Welles explores how time and place are critical in the development of an individual’s ego. The ideas of childhood and adulthood life and Kane’s need for control in his public and private environment assist in shaping audience’s understanding of the nature of ego. Essentially, Welles uses Kane’s life to explore how time and place are crucial elements to consider
Young kids can be easily affected by their surroundings. They learn from the roles of their teachers and their fellow students and peers. This is clearly demonstrated in Ender’s Game, a science fiction novel written by Orson Scott Card. It shows how Ender Wiggin, a very young boy, is put into a position of leadership and what he learns through this experience, Through a computer game, Ender learns that he is a very clever killer. Through his experience as commander, Ender learns that being strict
Childhood innocence contains curiosity, imagination and a carefree fragile mind that has not experienced the cruelty of the world. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game expresses that general isolation causes the loss of childhood. In the novel, Ender’s isolation is caused by the hostile characters at the Battle School, the mind game and the removal of the monitor. All of these elements prevent him from getting close to others, resulting in isolation, also causing the loss of childhood. One of the elements
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
In the book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card the main character of the book Ender is a student in battle school. In battle school the students play a game. In this game the students are sectioned off in different armies full of 41 students. Each student wears an outfit called a flash suit. The flash suit has a gun attached to it. The gun shoots a light which when fired at a different flash suit the target wearing a flash suit gets frozen. Both teams have a door. The goal of the game is to use