Citizen Kane Literary Analysis

Citizen Kane was a film released in 1941 and it it was voted #1 in history of American film. It was written by, directed by and acted by Orson Welles. The story was set in Xanada in Florida and started with an introduction about that place. Citizen Kane has a strange opening as it opened with the camera panning a spooky haunted mansion and then the camera lingered and zoomed in closely to the sign saying ¡§No Trepassing, ¡¨ then the camera took us to the room in the house, we saw a person was lying on the bed and that was the main character of the story ¡§Charles Foster Kane.¡¨ (Orson Welles) We could see that he was dying and his last word was ¡§Rosebud¡¨, and then he dropped the ball, and it shattered. Because of the word ¡§Rosebud¡¨, people
As in the beginning of the story, the narrative was introducing the city of Xanadu and Charles¡¦ colorful lifetime. The story were telling from 5 different points of view. It was Thatcher¡¦s point of view about Charles, but it was also Charles¡¦s employee, Bernstein, his closer friend, Jedediah Leland, Charles¡¦s ex wife Susan and the butler, Raymond. From their point of view, we knew that Charles was arrogant, lonely, thoughtless, morally bankrupt, desperate for attention, and incapable of giving love for his two wives. This faults eventually caused Charles to lose his career, friend and the beloved ones. Furthermore, the film gave the audience a feeling of supicious in the story. It also kept the audiences wanted to find out the truths behind the Charles¡¦s last word ¡§rosebud¡¨. Besides Citizen Kane opened with the camera panning across Charles¡¦s spooky castle and the camera lingered and zoomed on a ¡§no Trespassing¡¨ sign, made the film more mystery. I even thought of the film was about the haunted mansion. That really made the movie effective. The film was made smoothly. For instance, in the beginning, after shooting the sign of ¡§No trespassing,¡¨ the camera gradually made its way to the house, where it appeared to pass through a lit window, liked the camera lead us through the story. Also at the end of the story, where when Jerry was leaving the house, the camera paned a scene of workers burning some of Charles¡¦s possession and at that time we could the sled which painted the word ¡§rosebud ¡§on it. It was liked one image is wiped off the screen by another. The middle part through the ending was the most exciting part, as I curiously wanted to know about the ¡§rosebud.¡¨ Who was it or what was it, why was it so important as Charles was to whispering this word at last. This made it a question that we wanted to find out. The combination of lighting, compositing