The three films Citizen Kane, Ace in the Hole and Deadline: USA all exhibit qualities of their journalist characters in dramatically different ways. Each film emphasizes the main characters’ moral sense and tries to piece together the underlying foundations of the newspaper industry.
The movie, Citizen Kane, takes place in the 1940s and begins dramatically, Charles Foster Kane whispers “rosebud” and then passes away. Kane was a very important and influential. newspaper publisher world wide, which was seen in the video obertituarty. Described “as the greatest newspaper tycoon of his or any other generation,” Kane was either loved or hated by many… no inbetween. The video obertituary showed many aspects of his life, his own history, friends, …show more content…
After a string of lost jobs, misfortune, and misconduct, Chuck Tatum lands a job at a small time newspaper in New Mexico. He lives there for a year, finding it extremely boring and unchallenging for his natural affinity for reporting. One day, he learns of a man, Leo, who is trapped inside a cave looking for ancient Indian artifacts. Tatum views this as his saving grace and pursues the story, locating the distraught man in the cave. But instead of reporting the story and helping the effort to save him, Tatum uses him to propel his own stories into national headlines. Tatum convinces the corrupt sheriff of the town to prolong the rescue effort and to only allow Tatum into the cave., giving him exclusive rights to the story. Furthermore, he convinces the drillers who were coming to save Leo to drill from a more indirect route to buy more time for the story to spread and catch on. Tatum was now the only person who could report on the story and did indeed turn it into a national headline. Thousands of people flocked to the cave to witness the rescue and the area practically turned into a state fair. Eventually, Tatum caught his big break and his plan succeeded-- he sold the rights of the story to a big newspaper company back East and negotiated for his job back. But at the zenith of his national fame, everything started to …show more content…
Kane and Tatum used people and situations to better themselves and give themselves more power and prestige. Trying any means necessary, they to further their careers without remorse of who else was affected. Both men had personal problems and caused the media industry to appear tarnished and full of competitive and untrustworthy people. The first two movies convey the message that the media blows stories out of proportion just to attract the public eye and profit. Yet, in the second movie, it is Hutcheson who utilizes the newspaper industry as a means of portraying a good, steadfast, and trustworthy system of information that is determined to bring the people the truth. One could infer that in all three movies the personality of the journalist heavily affects the work that is produced and emphasizes the message being portrayed
The movie, Citizen Kane, takes place in the 1940s and begins dramatically, Charles Foster Kane whispers “rosebud” and then passes away. Kane was a very important and influential. newspaper publisher world wide, which was seen in the video obertituarty. Described “as the greatest newspaper tycoon of his or any other generation,” Kane was either loved or hated by many… no inbetween. The video obertituary showed many aspects of his life, his own history, friends, …show more content…
After a string of lost jobs, misfortune, and misconduct, Chuck Tatum lands a job at a small time newspaper in New Mexico. He lives there for a year, finding it extremely boring and unchallenging for his natural affinity for reporting. One day, he learns of a man, Leo, who is trapped inside a cave looking for ancient Indian artifacts. Tatum views this as his saving grace and pursues the story, locating the distraught man in the cave. But instead of reporting the story and helping the effort to save him, Tatum uses him to propel his own stories into national headlines. Tatum convinces the corrupt sheriff of the town to prolong the rescue effort and to only allow Tatum into the cave., giving him exclusive rights to the story. Furthermore, he convinces the drillers who were coming to save Leo to drill from a more indirect route to buy more time for the story to spread and catch on. Tatum was now the only person who could report on the story and did indeed turn it into a national headline. Thousands of people flocked to the cave to witness the rescue and the area practically turned into a state fair. Eventually, Tatum caught his big break and his plan succeeded-- he sold the rights of the story to a big newspaper company back East and negotiated for his job back. But at the zenith of his national fame, everything started to …show more content…
Kane and Tatum used people and situations to better themselves and give themselves more power and prestige. Trying any means necessary, they to further their careers without remorse of who else was affected. Both men had personal problems and caused the media industry to appear tarnished and full of competitive and untrustworthy people. The first two movies convey the message that the media blows stories out of proportion just to attract the public eye and profit. Yet, in the second movie, it is Hutcheson who utilizes the newspaper industry as a means of portraying a good, steadfast, and trustworthy system of information that is determined to bring the people the truth. One could infer that in all three movies the personality of the journalist heavily affects the work that is produced and emphasizes the message being portrayed