... 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 eventual downfall. In characterization, narrative structure, and the functional use of symbolism, Citizen Kane has many similarities with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each being a story in which an ... too short. He had changed the prevailing image of film for all time, had become the most famous and controversial cinematographer in the wor...

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