Citizen Kane: Forever Changed Film Making

There's no doubt that Citizen Kane is a great movie. It is a pioneering film that forever changed film making. Its plot is one of the most creative and original in all of movie history. The cinematography is stunning. Citizen Kane is about those images that we all reflect and project, the sum total of which -the impressions we make on other people- are all we that leave behind us. That central, unsolveable riddle of personality is at the core of what makes Citizen Kane so endlessly watchable.

The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly rated film, with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques and innovations. The director, star, and producer were all the same individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script and with Gregg Toland as cinematographer. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personality of the public figure, and the second deals with the crushing weight of materialism. Taken together, these two themes comprise the
She insists that Charlie be taken away from his sledding, snowman, and his "Union forever" games outside their Colorado log cabin for an education back east equivalent to his fortune. Charlie hates the idea of leaving his sled and his mother. He distrusts her words, "You won't be lonely, Charles." He distrusts Mr. Thatcher even more. You can see the hatred in his eyes that he has for Thatcher. This begins his struggle for power and control of his life and he uses his sled to push Thatcher to the ground. He immediately holds on to his mother lovingly not wanting to leave. And while Charlie is traveling back east on the train, his sled is forgotten outside being buried in the