Citizen Kane

begins the ultimate downfall that his character must go through to achieve forgiveness from those around him and within himself. Through a fragmented view of the life of Charles Foster Kane, the main character in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, four different characters reflect on the life and legacy of Kane. After Kane is sent away to live with Thatcher, his new guardian and…

The movie starts off with Charles Foster Kane which was produced by, directed and starred by Orson Welles. The movie begins with the the newsreel obituary footage that tells us about the life of Charles Foster Kane. It keeps us oriented as the screenplay progresses, piecing together the memories of those who knew him – Jed Leland his best friend, Susan Alexander his second wife and Mr. Bernstein, his business wizard were some of the few. “I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life”. The…

Citizen Kane was released in 1941. Citizen Kane is unique in the fact that it made a significant contribution to the film industry known as deep focus. This technique is most effective when we see Kane’s loss of control and his personal isolation. This movie is so much more…

before an old man holding a globe whispers the word “Rosebud”. He then drops the globe and passes away. The next scene we get a better introduction to the man who had just passed. A newsreel titled News on the March announces the death of Charles Foster Kane, a well-known newspaper publisher. The news real gives a quick over view of Kane’s life, showing his success and fortune. The producer of the news isn’t satisfied with the film because it recounts Kane’s life and not who he was. He is…

examining the book The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer by Aeon J. Skoble, Mark T. Conard, and William Irwin and the episode “Rosebud” the message The Simpsons are trying to convey becomes clear. The episode “Rosebud” is a parody of the film Citizen Kane. But while the episode at it’s core is a parody it represents so much more than that. The film and the episode may seem like they convey the same message they do not. The film focuses on a man who is rich and struggles to hold onto a…

ranked among the industrialized countries but does not have a universal healthcare (Kane, 2016). The industrialized nations have universal healthcare because they consider it a right to every citizen to have affordable medication. Every citizen has the right to live this means that every citizen should enjoy the quality of life in any possible way. Universal healthcare is critical to that right because many citizens succumb because of not accessing the quality health care when need be,…

place when Kane is trying to get deputies in the church, demonstrates that it is the responsibility of the people to protect the town and fight against Frank Miller and his gang since it is their town. When contrasting the theme of the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” and the film, High Noon, there are a lot of differences. The theme of the film is responsibility to society vs. self interest, while the theme of the story is empathy for all living creatures. In High Noon, the citizens of…

James Naremore writes about Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane as a “powerful example of film art” in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Wells opens the movie with a similar way that he ends it. The audience gets the view of a large fence, with a castle that looked “like the home of a sorcerer”, and on the fence, a “No Trespassing” sign. All awhile, there was eerie music playing in the background as the camera began to move over the fence and zoom towards the castle in the distance. This and the eerie music…

theory, as the Salvadoran government began violating the human rights of the citizens. A civil war came out of this unequal treatment of citizens, and a peace treaty was formed twelve years later to permit this from ever happening again. The Cold War negatively impacted El Salvador more so than positively because the communist government in Russia influenced the Salvadoran government to violate the human rights of the citizens, which ended up creating a civil war…

Citizen Kane follows the story of Jerry Thompson, a newspaper reporter, as he attempts to unearth the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s last words, Rosebud. This film follows a mostly non-linear timeline due to the use of a few flashbacks that are achieved from…