Citizen Kane

One of Brooks’s supporting actors is a man name Orson Welles. Welles, a brilliant actor, was famous for his acting on Citizen Kane (1941) and for his iconic voice in his work for serial narration of several feature films, led Brooks to hire Welles to do the narration for the time of the Neanderthals. Welles narrates a group of cavemen of their daily lives, and tells the complex…

Citizen Kane is an American mystery drama film done in 1941 by Orson Welles. The main characters include Charles Foster Kane, Susan Alexander Kane, Jedediah Leland, and Mary Kane among others. This is a film that is specifically praised due to is the use of the cinematography, narrative structure and music. It is a movie that is worth watching and everyone should consider watching it. The life of Charles foster Kane, who is a newspaper tycoon, is told after his death and it’s told from the…

Types of Key Innovations Sound Recording Methods of sound recording improved steadily. Early microphones were omnidirectional, picking up unwanted noise from crew and equipment. Gradually, unidirectional microphones, which could be aimed specifically at the desired sound source, were developed. While early booms to hang and move the microphone above the set had been large and clumsy, lighter booms soon made recording more flexible. By late 1932, innovations in multiple-track recording per-…

Hierarchy of Knowledge “Mr. Kane was a man that lost almost everything he had… So, maybe Rosebud was something that he lost…” Citizen Kane is considered to be the greatest film ever made. Orson Welles had the ultimate freedom of directing this film in an innovative way that is not in chronological order. The film begins with the camera focused on an old man’s mouth, which whispers one word: "Rosebud." The old man then drops the globe, which rolls onto the floor and shatters. After a moment of…

Citizen Kane, written, directed and starring Orson Welles is a biographical/detective film on the life of Charles Foster Kane. The film sets out with a journalist called Thompson speaking to his boss about how they want to announce Kane’s death to the world on News of the March. They need more information about Kane, his personality and a deeper insight into his life rather than the facts that everyone already knows. This is where Rosebud comes into play. Rosebud was the final word that Kane…

The fascinating part of Citizen Kane is that there are various untrustworthy narrators throughout the movie. In the very beginning we can see the newspaper headlines announcer giving the recent deceased of Kane. At that point you have all his own colleagues every telling the correspondent Thompson a specific piece of Kane's life. This particular approach to unfurl the plot certainly makes the film all the more captivating, making a biopic feel. It additionally includes significantly more…

Film: Citizen kane Sequence Analysis WorkSheet This worksheet describes 6 main elements that you can talk about in your sequence analysis. 1. Narrative 2. Composition 3. Sound 4. Photography 5. Editing 6. Audience Address NARRATIVE What "happens" in the selected sequence? camera moves slowly to show “Mr.Kane in 1871” written on a paper happy music playing in the background Kane using his sled to slide down the snow Kane stands up and throws a snowball at his house a wooden board with “Mrs kane…

Welles used sound to establish and further enhance the viewer’s attention to the meanings of what is portrayed on screen. Another impressive use of sound in Citizen Kane is the sequence after the end of the newsreel announcing the death of Kane. We are exposed to a room, dimly lit and shallow (unlike the deep and wide banquet room), full of men. The camera focuses on Mr. Rawlston, who, while he speaks, performs a myriad of motions towards and against the camera – all of which are enhanced…

Citizen Kane opens with a quasi-subjective series of shots each creeping deeper within the Kane Estate until Charles Kane is seen on his deathbed holding a snowglobe.The original shot is a close-up of a “No Trespassing” sign. The camera, as well as the audience, bypasses the sign and crosses the fence, each shot inching closer to the light in the window until we see Kane dying on his bed. On the way there, we see a desolate estate (apart from the caged monkeys), enormous in space but empty. As…

"Well, nobody's perfect" the famous last line from the movie Some Like It Hot by director Billy Wilder, almost did not make it into the film. The line was only a temporary fill-in, until Wilder could come up with a better line. Fortunately, the line made it into the film, and became the most famous and iconic line of the entire film. The story is about two men, trying to escape from a criminal gang by dressing up as woman, and fleeing to Florida with an all-woman jazz band. The film thus stands…