Citizen Kane, produced by Orson Welles and acclaimed as one of the greatest films of our time, was composed of many different layers. Through symbolic imagery and creative mise- ... . At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" Instead, we were told about Kane's affair with Suzanne Alexander and Kane's attempt to make Suzanne a great opera singer. Interpretation led the audience to the impression that he had become a full-fledged tyrant "power ... search, and seemed to know much less than we would expect...

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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. Through symbolic imagery and creative mise- ... . At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" Instead, we were told about Kane's affair with Suzanne Alexander and Kane's attempt to make Suzanne a great opera singer. Interpretation led the audience to the impression that he had become a full-fledged tyrant "power ... search, and seemed to know much less than we would expect...

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... as suspense, are what characterize a great film. In 1941, a 25-year-old named Orson Wells produced his first movie that is now considered one of the greatest American films ever. Citizen Kane broke down every frontier, surpassing films of its time through the use of camera techniques, setting, scene transitions, soundtrack, and suspense. Orson Wells is renowned in the way in which ... he combines camera techniques along with lighting and sound. Citizen Kane opens in a mystifying way, with suspenseful music narrating the changing of the settings. The minute the screen lights up, the audi...

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"Citzen Kane- is a bold movie and is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. The intriguing opening is filled with mesmerizing lap dissolves and camera movements from one sinister, mysterious image to the next, searching closer and closer it seems. 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 chain-link mesh gate that dissolves and changes into images of great iron flowers or oak leaves on the heavy gate. On the crest of the gate is a single, silhouetted, wr...

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