The evolution of film is a slow process, where usually, a work will break a record, every now and then, and act as a milestone for the progress of cinema and the development of its complexity. Each spark of ingenuity, and experimentation pushes the form a little further, and occasionally, a film will emerge so packed with new ideas and revolution, that the evolution of cinema itself seems to skip a decade overnight. With the overall ambivalence of its tone,...
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A magnificent mansion, a remarkable ‘Rosebud’ and a fragmented crystal ball opened the heavy curtain of āCitizen Kaneā. āRosebudā, such a beautiful but plain word, is associated with the death of a famous newspaper tycoon. In the whole film, it becomes the cause of the story, but it is like a kite with a broken thread, instead of linking up any secrets that have been hidden for many years, it brings the important people who appeared in Kane ‘s life...
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āCitizen Kaneā begins with a three-minute stretch of dark and foggy silence with a low song before its disruptive by the word āRosebudā said by Charles Kane, played and directed by Orson Welles. The movie opens with a life-changing picture of a far off, haze covered castle on a slope. It’s an exemplary gothic shot and goes far towards building up the state of mind of āCitizen Kaneā. We rapidly discover that this spot, called Xanadu, is the residence Charles...
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āCitizen Kaneā was a thematic film, based on the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane a powerful man who owned and control journalism. He owned the biggest newspaper company during the beginning time of World War I. An era that was controlled by āyellow journalismā and Kane being the biggest one of all. The movie starts with Citizen Kane taking his last breath, and murmuring the name of someone or something under his breath saying āRosebudā. The name brought...
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The film āCitizen Kaneā was released in the United States in 1941, It was a famous masterpiece written, directed and performed by Orson Wells, a 25-year-old film master at the time. It is not only an important experimental film in the history of American cinema, but also an innovative and classic film in the history of world cinema. Whatās more, the method breaking through the traditional shooting of the movie also provided a direction indicator for later American movies. Deep...
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In āCitizen Kaneā (1941) directed by Orson Welles, the story is set in motion to seek for the meaning of āRosebudā. At the end, when Thompson is asked about āRosebudā, he states that he didnāt find its meaning, and that āmaybe āRosebudā was something [Kane] couldnāt get or something he lost ā¦ I guess āRosebudā is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzleā. Thompsonās failure in finding its meaning suggests a search for alternative meaning in the movie, rather than...
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In this essay I want to talk about two films āThe Grand Budapest Hotelā and āCitizen Kaneā. I liked these two films most of all, because they have a certain charm, they are very unusual, the presentation of the film in one is very different from the other, but there is something in common, romance and a certain spirit of the old times. In this paper, I am going to show the techniques that were used in the two films,...
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The film, movie, cinema, motion picture, or moving picture has been entertaining audiences for over one hundred plus years. They have come a long way since the Golden Age of movies. Early on movies such as āCitizen Kaneā, āCasablancaā, and āThe Best Years of Our Livesā broke and set new ideas for film-making, casting and directing. Their production made new rules for shooting movies. Their casting used A-list celebrities, alongside never-before-seen actors, mixed with regular people that had experience in...
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The film āCitizen Kaneā, directed by Orson Welles, revolves around the life and identity of the character, Charles Foster Kane. Welles pointed out, āWeāre born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion that weāre not aloneā. Welles explores this notion through the character study of Kane. In the original trailer for the film, Welles tells the audience that he does not know what to tell them about Kane, āHe is...
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