Citizen Kane shows mastery of film technique because through the use and innovation of filmic devices Citizen Kane is one of the great movies of all time. ... Kane is framed here by the window conveying a sense of entrapment. Indeed, this is the thesis of the film: Kane is trapped in childhood. ... The extreme low angle shots after Kane's political campaign suggest the end of the once heroic Kane and his men. ... All of these examples and more make Citizen Kane qualify as one of the great movies of all time. ...

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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. ... Many cinematographers found it offensive too, not for its innovations but because it resurrected techniques that had long been considered outmoded. ... I'd like to pay attention to the issue of innovation made in the film. ...

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The 1941 groundbreaking drama Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, proved to extend far beyond the sum of its original worth. ... However, today amidst all the visual effects and CGI thrown into almost every movie, Citizen Kane still holds the bar for its ability to tell a story within the story. ... And, in comparison to other movies of its time, Citizen Kane consciously moved in a different direction, pushing the boundaries of filming and the capturing of the audiences" perception. ... Welles used these techniques in the beginning of Citizen Kane to give the audience a quick three-minute narrat...

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Film noir was an important innovation of cinema that had a lasting influence on both cinema past and present and the motion picture industry as a whole. ... The use of shadows, unusual scene composition (mise-en-scene) and change of focus are other examples of techniques used repeatedly in film noir, which are all shown by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane' to show the main character's complete alienation. ... These techniques were are all innovative filmmaking techniques that were the first of their kind marking a new wave of innovation in cinema. ... (Telotte 1989) so although there ...

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You often sit down to make a car that is cheap, or a piece of furniture that will only last for a couple years, but nobody ever sits down and says Hey let's make a bad movie!' (McCallum 10) George Lucas and special effects are synonymous. A movie without special effects would not be a...

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