Orson Welles’s portrayal of William Randolph Hearst in the film Citizen Kane reveals the protagonist’s life and character through various film making techniques. Several dialects of cinematic language were used to translate the main character, Charles Foster Kane, to audiences. The meaning of his dying word “rosebud” is unattainable for the journalist pursuing Kane’s life story throughout the film. Following this theme, Kane also searched for something throughout his life – the happiness his sled
Throughout the film, Citizen Kane mise-en-scène and cinematography were vital to conveying Charles’s struggle for dominance as well as the motif of loneliness. During the film people where searching for meaning in Charles Foster Kane’s last words, “Rosebud”. In the end of the film, the audience watches as miscellaneous objects he has collected throughout his life is tossed into a fire and burned. One of the objects that were thrown into the fire was the sled he received as a child; it said “Rosebud”
Citizen Kane was Orson Welles first feature film, which he directed and stared in. The film presented a lot of advances in filmmaking, these advances showed everything from storytelling techniques, special effects and lighting, and the framing. Some critics have said that Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all time. Citizen Kane was the first movie to show the audience the end of the movie at the beginning, which we see a lot of filmmakers use today. Welles would use flashbacks to give
before I wrote this paper. Honestly I must say that for an older movie I enjoyed it. The movie Citizen Kane is recorded as one of the greatest movies produced of all times. The movie was co-written, produced, directed and edited by George Orson Welles. He was noted for having a very interesting personal life, perhaps just as good as the movie itself. In 1998, the American Film Institute named Citizen Kane at the top of its 100 best films. It was because of the many unconventional techniques which
Citizen Kane was not only a great movie for its time but also made many cinematic advances towards one of the most used techniques to show emotion and importance of a scene today, “Deep focus”. Deep focus means that everything in the frame, the back round, the foreground all of the scenes important characters and props are all in focus instead of just a single aspect or object. Deep focus requires the perfect combination of lighting, technique and a special lens that is needed for the effect. Deep
movies of all-time. I believe no one would disagree the films were so prominent that they had shaped the cinema since 1940s. Both films are very engaging and I appreciate them a lot. Although I find Casablanca more enjoyable to watch, I still love Citizen Kane more and I think it is a greater film. Firstly, we can see a great transformation in film production in merely twenty years after The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in nearly all aspect. I think that film was not merely an art form but had also become