greatest film ever made. Citizen Kane. A product of Orson Welles, he directed, produced and acted throughout the movie. Welles in fact played the main character and who the story was based on Charles Foster Kane. Jedediah leland is played by Joseph cotton, and the reporter (Thompson) was played by William Alland. The film also stars Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane and Ray Collins. The film was up for nine different categories in the Academy Awards, this for being Welles’ first film was extremely
Citizen Kane ( Citizen Kane , 1941) (1), RKO production filmed in 1940, it was the first film directed by Orson Welles . That same year he had come to Hollywood, largely due to the impact caused by his legendary radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds by HG Wells, who had caused collective panic. With this transmission, Welles arrival to the world of cinema in very favorable conditions gained since the RKO offered a contract that guaranteed a level of really unprecedented in the film industry
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
Hearst habitually used his newspapers to skew public opinion in line with his personal issues. His legendary vindictive nature, narcissism, and his obsession with power resulted in a truly unique place in history as a political puppet master. When asked why he concentrated his business in the newspaper industry, instead of films, he replied, “I thought of it, but I decided against it. Because you can crush a man with journalism, and you can’t with motion pictures.” Orson Welles made a bold career