Analyis of Citizan Cane
“Citizen Kane” Throughout our time studying and analyzing the distinct and varying techniques of films, I noticed that the actual pioneer of many great filming techniques came from Orson Welle’s 1941 movie “Citizen Kane.” There is constant reference from your lectures and also text material to this film. “Citizen Kane” is a truly astonishing production that redefined how movies were filmed and edited. So of course I had to run out to my local Blockbuster to rent it; and for a movie made in the 1940s, it is a very miraculous accomplishment in the history of film. The film opens with a picture of a castle with a window that has a light turned on. As the backgrounds begin to change into a closer view of the castle, then a view of the castle from the reflection of the water surrounding it, we are drawn into the window as a man falls dead with the last words “Rosebud” coming from his mouth. We are then brought through a maze of scenes that reflect one man’s journey through life from his childhood with an abusive father, to the time he inherits the world’s sixth largest fortune. Charles Foster Kane, is portrayed in the movie as a man who has everything one could ever want. Whatever he doesn’t possess, he tries to buy. Power and wealth quickly come to Kane, and although he claims or at least tries to be happy, he truly is not a happy person.