Citizen Kane broke down every frontier, surpassing films of its time through the use of camera techniques, setting, scene transitions, soundtrack, and suspense. ... Citizen Kane opens in a mystifying way, with suspenseful music narrating the changing of the settings. ... The greater part of the film takes place in a flashback, as the reporters try to assemble some sort of story as to what "rosebud", Kane's final words, mean. ... When a viewer remembers a film, they will remember the way in which they felt, so being that Citizen Kane kept people on the edge of their seats in search for...

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Citizen Kane broke down every frontier, surpassing films of its time through the use of camera techniques, setting, scene transitions, soundtrack, and suspense. ... Citizen Kane opens in a mystifying way, with suspenseful music narrating the changing of the settings. ... The greater part of the film takes place in a flashback, as the reporters try to assemble some sort of story as to what "rosebud", Kane's final words, mean. ... When a viewer remembers a film, they will remember the way in which they felt, so being that Citizen Kane kept people on the edge of their seats in search for...

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Citizen kane as a remembered person story The structure of "Citizen Kane" is circular, adding more depth every time it passes over the life. ... Citizen Kane follows the journey of Kane from orphan to millionaire and through to his mysterious, solitary death. ... Kane even runs for President of the United States, but his life is ultimately about the quest for acceptance and popularity and the loneliness that money cannot fix in Citizen Kane. The symmetry of Citizen Kane is also interesting as the film begins and ends by showing a "No Trespassing" sign on the outside fence of Kane's m...

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Thompson may have concluded that "Rosebud" was the sled that represented Kane's childhood and innocence. ... Through the many faces of Kane - the innocent little boy, the younger, happier Kane, the Kane who made shadowy figures with his fingers while with Susan Alexander, the Kane who chose his mistress over his marriage and son (and political career), and the Kane who kept millions amused, we see that "Rosebud" was only a tool to tell the story, which in the end explains nothing at all. The snow globe Kane holds in his hand during his death, and after his second wife, Susan Alexander l...

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In the film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane's life was summed up in one word, "Rosebud". ... "Rosebud" makes Citizen Kane a tragedy. ... The term "Rosebud" makes Citizen Kane a tragedy. ... Charles Foster Kane's life was summed up in one word, "Rosebud", in the film Citizen Kane. ... "Rosebud" makes Citizen Kane a tragedy. ...

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The film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, opens with a picture of a castle with a window that has a light turned on. ... Throughout the movie, we see that "rosebud" is played up to have some major significance in Kane's life. ... The "rosebud" is representative of a life unfulfilled. ... I think that the "rosebud" was more of a way to show how Kane suffered from his childhood, and connect it to his inability to be a happy man. Citizen Kane allows people to see what it is like when someone has everything materiel, but can't seem to find happiness. ...

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The film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, opens with a picture of a castle with a window that has a light turned on. ... Throughout the movie, we see that "rosebud" is played up to have some major significance in Kane's life. ... The "rosebud" is representative of a life unfulfilled. ... I think that the "rosebud" was more of a way to show how Kane suffered from his childhood, and connect it to his inability to be a happy man. Citizen Kane allows people to see what it is like when someone has everything materiel, but can't seem to find happiness. ...

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Citizen Kane As a film, Citizen Kane is a powerful dramatic story about the uses and abuses of wealth and power. ... Citizen Kane, is a good example of direction. ... Within moments of the film's eerie and visually pleasing opening, Kane is dead, muttering the word "Rosebud" as he hunches over. ... Citizen Kane uses a variety of different settings and objective lighting that overwhelms the audience. High and low key lighting is used numerous times to create a mystique environment around the secret of Kane and Rosebud. ...

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Citizen Kane Citizen Kane has many themes. ... "Rosebud" is what Kane says right before his death. ... Unfortunately, he is unable to find out and the movie ends without an answer to what "rosebud," the missing piece in Kane's life, is. ... "Rosebud" is indeed a missing jigsaw puzzle in Kane's life. ... Although the reporters never find out the meaning of "rosebud," the audience finds out the reason why Kane is unable to destroy the snow globe. ...

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Citizen Kane A. Throughout the movie Citizen Kane the view that nothing really matters and that there is no meaning, or nihilism, is often prevalent. ... The continued investigation of his last word, "rosebud" through out the film can also be used to show views of nihilism. ... In a sense the lack of meaning to the word rosebud represents a lack of meaning to Kane's entire life. ... Shadows and silhouettes were often used in Citizen Kane to express or convey characterization, mood and narration. ...

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CITIZEN KANE Almost everybody in our group has viewed (or has at least heard about) "Citizen Kane". ... And we finally got an answer: = the enigma of Rosebud= Let's start by explaining how this word (Rosebud) appears for the first time in the movie! ... All the scenes from this point on are only flashbacks in Kane's life. ... Even Thompson concluded: "Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost,'' and he added: "I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle." ...

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Citizen Kane wasn't a film that I would have chosen on my own to make it a movie night, but it incorporated many aspect of film that I found interesting. ... The most interesting part of the film I noticed to be the constant referral to Rosebud, it locked the interest of the viewers perspective to determining the meaning behind rosebud. It wasn't fully determined to the viewers if the reporters ever found out the true meaning behind "rosebud", but the viewers were aware of the fact that he missed his parents. ... You begin to understand the true pain behind Kane's wife leavin...

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Part I Citizen Kane is widely considered to be the best American movie ever made. ... We then see a snow globe, before Kane drops it and smashes the snow globe while muttering the words "rosebud". ... There were many elements of the filmmakers toolbox included in Citizen Kane. ... The rhythm and pacing differs many times throughout Citizen Kane. ... Contrast in Citizen Kane was very frequent throughout the movie. ...

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Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane • "For what profit a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?" Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36 CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. ... Strange as it may seem today, Citizen Kane required a lot of getting used to. ... In characterization, narrative structure, and the functional use of symbolism, Citizen Kane has many similarities with F. ... There has been some dispute over who deserves credit for what concerning the Citizen Kane screenplay. ...

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The film Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, is a great example of how a man can be corrupted by wealth. ... In addition, the reference of "Rosebud" throughout the movie is a symbol of Kane's wish to return to his childhood and a new start. ... Citizen Kane comprises of one episode after another, an endless stream of events that lead to Kane's corruption from wealth. ... Kane wanted to return to the beginning and change his life, to the simpler times with his "rosebud" sled and his childhood. ... The film Citizen Kane is a story of wealth and how it corrupted one mans ideal w...

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Citizen Kane Essay The film Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, creates its deep inner meaning by displaying its characters in numerous interrogations and situations from the past. ... After the many eerie shots of Kane's mansion in Xanadu, we get a close up of Kane's rubbery lips as he utters his last word, "Rosebud..." ... It's interesting that Rawlston believes that adding information about Rosebud would add Kane's "character" to the short. ... Rosebud's meaning is slowly spelled out as we watch Kane interact with others and himself from this point on. ... Ros...

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Citizen Kane broke down every frontier, surpassing films of its time through the use of camera techniques, setting, scene transitions, soundtrack, and suspense. ... Citizen Kane opens in a mystifying way, with suspenseful music narrating the changing of the settings. ... The greater part of the film takes place in a flashback, as the reporters try to assemble some sort of story as to what "rosebud", Kane's final words, mean. ... During the celebration for the new staff of the Inquirer, Bernstein and Leland are drawn in an intense conversation about Kane and his thoughts. To highlight...

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Citizen Kane, produced by Orson Welles and acclaimed as one of the greatest films of our time, was composed of many different layers. ... At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" ... We, as accomplices to Thompson's quest for the meaning of "Rosebud-, were at the end of the journey with empty hands. Raymond's account overlapped Suzanne Alexander's and focused more on the "Rosebud- aspect of the film. ... When we finally saw "Rosebud- on the sled, we were left to interpret the meaning ...

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Citizen Kane, produced by Orson Welles and acclaimed as one of the greatest films of our time, was composed of many different layers. ... At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" ... We, as accomplices to Thompson's quest for the meaning of "Rosebud-, were at the end of the journey with empty hands. Raymond's account overlapped Suzanne Alexander's and focused more on the "Rosebud- aspect of the film. ... When we finally saw "Rosebud- on the sled, we were left to interpret the meaning ...

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Citizen Kane Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the films that brought several new ways, which were quiet unusual in the era of 1940s, to make and watch movies. Based on the real life of William Randolph Hearst, who was a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher, Citizen Kane is a story about the life of a multi-millionaire newspaper publisher, Charles Foster Kane (played by Orson Welles), who once accomplishes almost everything he deserves - he was made by his mother to deserve them, but loses more than everything back except money. ... Secondly, the flashbacks in Citizen K...

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"Citizen Kane" "Citizen Kane" is often cited as one of the finest films ever made, and rightfully so. ... Another element of the layout that adds interest is the mystery of the secret meaning behind Kane's last words: "Rosebud". The audience eventually receives an absorbing visualization of Kane's phenomenal career and personal life from Kane's boyhood guardian, two of his closest newspaper associates and his mistress. ... As death closes his eyes his heavy lips murmur one word, "Rosebud". ... The layout of the plot in Orson Welles" "Citizen Kane" is very original a...

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Kane was deprived of a childhood when he was eight years old and sent away to a boarding school. ... When Kane became an adult, he was able to obtain every material thing he could ever as for. ... Kane was never really quite sure who his real friends were. ... Fun and happiness can not be bought, which is why when he mutters "Rosebud" on his deathbed it becomes a key moment in the movie. Rosebud was the name of his sled as a child, and that was the happiest moments in his childhood, spending endless hours on his sled when he was a little boy, and when he died he had nothing to carry on his leg...

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Discuss how, and to what effect, Citizen Kane arranges people and objects within the frame Neil Kane Citizen Kane, hailed by many as one of the most important and innovative films ever made, is the story of one man, Charles Foster Kane, and the rise and fall of his idealistic, media empire. ... In Citizen Kane, people are framed in the shot facing the camera. ... For example, Citizen Kane opens on a sign saying "No Trespassing" which eventually pans out to reveal a lone house on the hill, with one light burning dimly in the window. ... Deep focus cinematography is used by Welles throughout...

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Citizen Kane Scene Analysis The Projection Room Low Key Lighting Shot: In the final shot of the newsreel with Kane living in Xanadu we end up with a full screen shot of Kane as a very old man. ... However, none of these men truly know what Kane was really like, "Charles Foster Kane was a..." ... Rawlston was looking for the full exposure on Charles Foster Kane, "What made Kane what he was? ... Rawlston then suggests that Thompson consult people that Kane knew and base his new report off of Kane's last words, "Rosebud..." ... The real Charles Foster Kane stayed deep inside himse...

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This essay will look at many similar as well as contrasting themes between the movies Citizen Kane (1941) and Casablanca(1942). Citizen Kane and Casablanca were produced a year apart, but each came to the screen from different places. ... On theater hand, Citizen Kane follows the rise of Charles Foster Kane and there are multiple sets spread throughout the entire movie. ... There are major symbols in both Casablanca and Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane uses the name of "Rosebud" throughout the movie as a symbol which represents the deepest happiness of Charles Foster Kane, which he hid ye...

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