... we should bear in mind that it was a result of co-action of four main players that make Citizen Kane the film it is: Orson Welles the director/writer/producer/actor, Gregg Toland the cinematographer, Herman Mankiewicz the writer, and William Randolph Hearst, the inspiration. Strange as it ... of theater, reinvents this idea by replacing outward theatrical indicators with subtler cinematic ones. The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and event...

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