Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane has been consistently ranked as one of the best films ever made. A masterpiece of technique and storytelling, the film helped to change Hollywood film-making and still exerts considerable influence today. However, at the time of its premiere in 1941, it was a commercial failure that spelled disaster for Welles' Hollywood career. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personality
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Lee Joor Baruah Monday- 11:15-12:30 Film 20A 30 October 2014 Citizen Kane Sequence Analysis Essay Mise-en-scene, cinematography and editing are visual elements in film that create meaning in the shots/sequences of the film. Ultimately it is these factors that can establish narrative agents and their relations, drive the narrative and place the view in a certain point of view of the narrative. Orson Welle’s 1941 film, Citizen Kane, is considered significant for its technical innovations with its
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**** ******** Humanities 17 Mr. **** 10/20/12 Citizen Kane, Orson Wells (1941): employed new cinematographic advances for film. Wells, use of camera placement, movement and the entire editing process paved the way for a new era of filmmaking. His brilliant use of Iconic imagery, help to tell the story of Charles Foster Kane. The opening of this scene seems to be one of childhood innocence. A young Charles, sledding down a hill. The blind edit straight to the snowball hitting the sign of
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Citizen Kane has been referenced in so many different mediums in my life. I had never seen the film, but the scene where Kane is giving a political speech with his massive image towering in the background has been mimicked in countless TV shows, even cartoons. I knew Rosebud has a sleigh, but never knew anything about the plot. More importantly, I never knew what the big commotion was over this film. I went and rented the Criterion Collection edition of Citizen Kane from the local video store
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Charles Foster Kane to its fullest. Character positions, camera angles and music, and framing used to tell the story in Citizen Kane. It’s use of mise-en-scene made it not only ahead of its time, but it made it a masterpiece. Citizen Kane uses mise-en-scene is multiple scenes to help tell the narrative. A perfect example is when the parents of the Charles Kane are speaking with Walter Thatcher in the house. As Kane’s parents are discussing giving Kane over to Thatcher, we see Kane as a boy playing
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Narrative structure in Citizen Kane The narrative structure of Citizen Kane is largely nonlinear, which was revolutionary at the time the film was released. The narrative defies Classical Hollywood Cinema, in that it is not told as a chronological story with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, the narrative begins with the end of the story – the death of the main character, Charles Foster Kane. The life story of Kane is then summarized in a newsreel, which actually gives away the whole movie
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The film I have chosen is Citizen Kane, 1941, directed by Orson Welles. I have chosen a scene that is towards the end of the movie and shows Charles Foster Kane’s reaction to his wife breaking up with him. The film aspect I will be focusing on is the Mis en scene. The scene begins with Charles foster Kane’s wife walking out of the room then the camera shows us where she has come from, we see Kane in the distance standing at a doorway, he is at least 20 metres away from the camera. Welles uses
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00:37:10 to 00:39:30 Charles Foster Kane just start his new job : he is now controlling a newspaper in New York, the Inquirer. He’s with Jedediah Leland and Mr.Bernstein, they are just discussing about the future of the Inquirer but then Mr.Kane has an idea : he’s going to write a declaration of principles. This is the beginning of the desillusion for the spectator who believes in a good Charles. However, the scene is quite intersting in the way it has been filmed, especially in the second part of
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While the classic American drama Citizen Kane does follow classic Hollywood cinema and has been praised for innovative use of scripts, also challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of what was known as classic Hollywood cinema. This movie uses a mix of different genres such as musical and detective types. This film further challenges Hollywood cinema by not following some of the standards of the classics; for instance, the protagonist is not a hero, the movie pays more attention
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Susan Alexander by continuing to publish Leland’s review, due to stubbornness, and fear of being judged by Leland. Another example of Kane keeping his concentration on his public life, is when he refuses to stand down when he is caught out with Susan Alexander, this shows he does not want to withdraw his previous decisions and back down in front of the public. Kane is always trying to prove himself, to everyone he knows, and those he does not, he likes to control peoples thoughts and what they think
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