Citizen Kane

The myth of the American Dream Citizen Kane was one of the first movies to depict the American Dream as anything less than fascinating. As a child, Kane was happy as we see in the scene where he is playing in the snow outside the family’s home, even though his parents owned a boarding house they were categorized low class. But all that changed for Kane, when Thatcher took him from this low class lifestyle, and placed in what only seemed like the American dream, a luxurious life. Overtime he…

Citizen Kane is undoubtedly a masterpiece in cinematography; almost every scene in this movie has some hidden message, and the audience are able to decipher those message through both visual evidence and dialogue/narrative. If we simply analyze this series of scenes from how they are presented visually, they artistically show how Charlie and Emily’s love fades away with time: in the first scene, Charles and Emily look at each other, lovingly; then, they have some quarrels in the following…

Citizen Kane follows a group of reporters as they follow the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a millionaire newspaper tycoon. They look for any clues that may explain Charles Foster Kane's final words before dying: "Rosebud." Watching Citizen Kane in class was my first time viewing the film. Personally I disliked the film, mostly because it seemed too long. The story didn't interest me as much, although the ending was amusing. Although the group of reporters never find out what "Rosebud"…

1) In “50 years of Citizen Kane,” the article is about the movie’s history. The story of the movie is Kane, a media conglomerate living secret lives in a mansion in Florida's mansion, Xanadu, takes a breath, leaving the word "rose bud" in question. The press will cover his death and reporter Thompson follows the meaning of "Rosebud" and looks back on his life through an interview with Kane's surrounding people. However, the movie was not suitable for the proper national release because, in major…

Orson Welles’s film “Citizen Kane” tells the story of Charles Foster Kane. A character who at the very young age inherited a great deal of money, whilst simultaneously having been taken away from his mother. This causes a tremendous amount of issues in his social and romantic life. The main problem with Kane is his inability to show any sort of affection towards anyone who dare try to care for him, the root of the issue: his mother. The only person Kane ever loved sent him away, causing an…

It is no small statement, yet at the same time no stretch, that the Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane can be the undisputed kings of their respectful American media; less so for their stature (which is monumental but in the case of the Great Gatsby, not totally dominant) in their media but rather for their nature as masterful depictions of a quintessentially American theme. This theme is the pursuit of perfection despite great success, of the emptiness of wealth, and of striving for an ideal that…

the future. The past shapes people to be who they are and to form their morals. But for the future, it is determined by the ambitions a person holds. For the main characters of the book The Great Gatsby, the Broadway play Hamilton, and the movie Citizen Kane, their pasts and ambitions unfortunately limit the characters and eventually lead to their downfalls. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, follows his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, along his journey to win back…

Macbeth and Citizen Kane through the story of both protagonists. While it is true that both Macbeth and Charles Kane are portrayed in two vastly contrasted settings, the similarities and differences in their stories are evidently demonstrated. The common elements of both stories are illustrated in various ways. Initially, when both protagonists are strongly influenced by ambition to obtain power and wealth, contrary to genuine recognition. Furthermore, when they sacrifice their moral…

The opening sequence of Citizen Kane sets the whole theme of the movie by being the reason for which Thompson decides to investigate Kane and his life, trying to understand what is “Rosebud”. The first scene opens with a close-up of a sign that says “No trespassing” while everything behind the sign is out of focus, but the camera ignores the sign and crosses the fence, making the viewer feel as if they are the ones jumping over said fence even when they have no control over the camera's actions,…

When ‘Citizen Kane’ was originally released in 1941, it gave an insight into the manipulation and distortion of the press by scrutinizing Kane’s desire to gain control. As Kane’s character is based on newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, Welles depicts Kane’s influential media control by exposing the beginning of “yellow journalism” as Kane reiterates Hearst’s famous note, “you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.” Kane’s unethical abuse of media power expressed when Kane states…