Citizen Kane is a 1941 American Drama film. The movie was the classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly rated film, with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques. Within the jumble of its own artistic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the humiliation of the private personality of the public figure, and the second with the crushing weight of materialism. Together, these two themes comprise the bitter irony of an American success story that ends in useless melancholy, loneliness, and death. The fact that the personal theme is developed verbally through the characters while the materialistic theme is developed visually, creating a unique stylistic counterpoint. Its theme is told from several perspectives by several different characters and is thought provoking. The tragic story is how a millionaire newspaperman, who idealistically made his reputation as the champion of the underprivileged, becomes corrupted by a lust for wealth, power and immortality. The apparent intellectual superficiality of Citizen Kane can be traced to the shallow quality of Kane himself.. His clever ironies are more those of the exhibitionist than the crusader. His second wife complains that Kane never gave her anything that was part of him, only material possessions that he might give a dog. His best friend, Jedediah Leland, was a separated observer functioning as a conscience remarks to the reporter that Kane never gave anything away; he left you a tip. In each case, Kane's character is described in materialistic terms. What Kane wanted, love, emotional loyalty, the unspoiled world of his boyhood, symbolized by rosebud, he was unable to provide for those around him, or buy for himself. The film's first sight is a no Trespassing sign hanging on a giant gate in the night's foggy mist, illuminated by the moonlight. The camera pans up the shackle-link mesh gate, which changes into images of great iron flowers or oak leaves on the heavy gate. On the gate is a single and wrought iron K initial. The gate surrounds a distant, forbidding-looking castle with towers. The same shots are repeated in reverse at the very end of the film. The initial and concluding clash of realism and expressionism suggests in a subtle way, the theme of Citizen Kane.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American Drama film. The movie was the classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly rated film, with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques. Within the jumble of its own artistic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the humiliation of the private personality of the public figure, and the second with the crushing weight of materialism. Together, these two themes comprise the bitter irony of an American success story that ends in useless melancholy, loneliness, and death. The fact that the personal theme is developed verbally through the characters while the materialistic theme is developed visually, creating a unique stylistic counterpoint. Its theme is told from several perspectives by several different characters and is thought provoking. The tragic story is how a millionaire newspaperman, who idealistically made his reputation as the champion of the underprivileged, becomes corrupted by a lust for wealth, power and immortality. The apparent intellectual superficiality of Citizen Kane can be traced to the shallow quality of Kane himself.. His clever ironies are more those of the exhibitionist than the crusader. His second wife complains that Kane never gave her anything that was part of him, only material possessions that he might give a dog. His best friend, Jedediah Leland, was a separated observer functioning as a conscience remarks to the reporter that Kane never gave anything away; he left you a tip. In each case, Kane's character is described in materialistic terms. What Kane wanted, love, emotional loyalty, the unspoiled world of his boyhood, symbolized by rosebud, he was unable to provide for those around him, or buy for himself. The film's first sight is a no Trespassing sign hanging on a giant gate in the night's foggy mist, illuminated by the moonlight. The camera pans up the shackle-link mesh gate, which changes into images of great iron flowers or oak leaves on the heavy gate. On the gate is a single and wrought iron K initial. The gate surrounds a distant, forbidding-looking castle with towers. The same shots are repeated in reverse at the very end of the film. The initial and concluding clash of realism and expressionism suggests in a subtle way, the theme of Citizen Kane.
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