Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-author, director and star. The picture was Welles's first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound polls of critics, until it was displaced by Vertigo in the 2012 poll. It topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as AFI's 2007 update. Citizen Kane is particularly praised for its cinematography, music, and narrative structure, which were innovative for its…
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The fictional although emotive memory taking place in this historical setting is the key ingredient to demonstrating this relationship between history and memory, the bias history can carry in its “facts” and the answers to this bias that memory can hold. Carey uses textual form to present Kelly’s relationships and Irish history in way of explanation for his actions which serves to draw empathy from the reader. The colloquial simile ‘it were only as I held her that I knew how deep I loved her we were grown…
A 1946 German Film called, in English, “The Murderers are Among Us” presents a black and white film that is about learning to deal with the past. For a person, they can either let the past destroy them and take away their future, or they can work through the past and move on to their future. This story is about love that has formed between two differently individuals and how they dealt with their past to move on with their future.…
Citizen Kane is Orson Welles dramatic portrayal of the devastating effects of one mans obsessive egotistical drive for notoriety which steadily isolates him over time. Through the use of time and place, the film shows the changes and effects of Kane’s ego throughout his life. From his childhood, to the height of his ego and later to its decline and the negative affects these had on Kane.…
Citizen Kane is a film open to many interpretations and analyses. It tells the story of its main character through the complex points of view of those who knew him. Or thought they knew him. The character of Charles Foster Kane is played by, and done so in an enigmatic performance, by Orson Welles. The intrinsic bias and prejudice of the “narrators” in this film creates conflicting accounts of who Charles Foster Kane really was. Kane was a private man; closely guarding his true identity, making it difficult to differentiate the private Kane from his public identity. Throughout the film’s development of Kane, several inconsistencies and contradictions arise in the depiction of the character’s personality. All of these issues make it difficult to form a solid portrayal of whom Kane actually was. However, there is enough evidence to conclude that Charles Foster Kane was a noble figure sabotaged by his own anti-social behavior and his search for love, his inability to find and provide it, and the way this haunted him to his dying day.…
Both Citizen Kane and The Prestige use flashback to tell the story. In The Prestige, Cutter tells most of the beginning stories of Robert and Alfred¡¯s life as magicians to the judge in flashback, while the later flashbacks are Robert and Alfred…
Charles Kane is the prime example of how wealth doesn’t equate to happiness. Material wealth and happiness are not exclusive, but one isn't necessarily the causation of another. Throughout the movie, bits of the vast Xanadu is shown and the majority of the scenes show it as an extremely empty, yet elegant estate. It almost is a metaphor to Kane as he feels empty. The parental bonds he was supposed to cherish early in his life were forcibly severed and since then, he’s been struggling to figure out what he desires. So much research points to a frail or nonexistent parental bond as the cause of any psychological issues later on in adulthood. As alluded to by many others who have come in contact with him, Kane’s life away from work is delicate. Kane has apparently dropped out of…
In Chapter one, the narrator vividly relates his mother's death to the audience, explaining the reasoning behind this amount of detail with the statement, "Your memory is a monster; you forget- it doesn't." The author meticulously records every sensory stimulus he received in the moments leading up to and following his mother's death; demonstrating how this event dramatically altered the course of his young life. Another example of the detailed memory the narrator recounts in this portion of the novel is seen in the passage, "Later, I would remember everything. In revisiting the scene of my…
Through its portrayal of the human experience, Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ reinforces the significance of perseverance.…
Charles Foster Kane was born of humble origins. There was a mine given to his family which eventually happened to be rich in gold, and he became the owner at age twenty five. To give a better future for Charles Foster Kane, his parents legally gave him over to Thatcher, who raised him in luxury until he became an adult. But Kane immensely hated Thatcher for taking him away from his family. He attended a lot of colleges, which all expelled him, including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Cornell.…
I will admit that I had to watch the movie Memento two times because I could not understand the numerous stories that Leonard had. This movie is a thriller with specific elements of mise-en-scene that go back in time to reveal and complete the main character Leonard to find the murderer of his wife. The staging supports the three different story times as the main character, Leonard, has been tattooing notes on his body and taking pictures with a camera so that he can remember everything that happens to him. and talking for Sammy who has the similar condition short-term memory. For instance, the mise-en-scene with the words tattooed on his arm saying "Never answer the phone" create a sense of worry and stress when the phone rings and he does not hang up. He starts to sweat and begins going back and forth in the room are a set design and play a role of undrestendin the condicion for no longer build new memories. The flashback makes the time frame to get to the point of tattoo and after related to the overall vision the shot go back to the story and cleared psychological thriller.…
Citizen Kane is hailed as one of the best films of all time, and with good reason. Citizen Kane is in the Film noire genre and is about Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), who is the owner of a huge media empire; He dies in his bedroom at his estate named Xanadu. Clutching onto a snow globe as he dies, Kane’s final word is “Rosebud.”A news reporter named Jerry Thompson (William Alland) is interested in the life and death of Kane, so he tries to find some extra information on him, especially the meaning of his final word. As Thompson interviews friends and lovers, the story of Kane is showed in a number of flashbacks from their point of view. The film also featured a number of cinematic innovations and techniques that are still influencing films and filmmakers to this day. One such technique used brilliantly in the movie is deep focus.…
The stipulations regarding one’s natural state and their reactions in the face of adversity resonates throughout the famous film Regarding Henry. In this classic, the main protagonist, Henry, is faced with the trauma of a gunshot wound to the head that rewinds him to his pre-learned experiences, like a child just starting to figure out the world once again. Because of this gunshot wound, Henry is transformed from his egocentric, cruel, business-man self revolving around his Id, which is the state of mind where he pursues everything he deems necessary for himself, to this kind, caring superego that exists only because of the traumatic event. Every learned experience Henry has ever endured is stripped away, and he starts his…
Narratives are used in “The Butterfly Effect” to add enjoyment for the audience in a number of different ways.…
