citizen kane
... In the film Citizen Kane, directed and co-written Orson Welles, this question is also evident. Charles Foster Kane, played by Orson Welles, was an egotistical newspaper industrialist whose life was based on an actual person William Randolph Hearst. Through out the film, Charles Kane was perceived to be a very incomplete person who was always trying to better himself from a financial standpoint. ... Unfortunately for Charles Kane, he never realized the simple things in life exceed those of financial value. ... One particular scene in the film shows Kane as a child sledding in on a hill in front of his house. In closely observing the film the audience is shown a happy, carefree Kane, rather than the bitter and cold person he becomes later in the film.