... to material acquisition - is slowly unfolded. 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. The part that I found most interesting was definitely the beginning of ... the film. As the picture opens, Charles Kane lies dying in the fabulous castle he has built - the castle called Xanadu, in which he has surrounded himself ...

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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. I found the intense use of shadows ... present. 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. Rose bud ... camera movements and angl...

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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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• Grade Level: High School