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Citizen Kane
Orson Welles directed in a new way. ... Welles reminisces with German Expressionistic chiaroscuro lighting and dramatic backgrounds, but introduces the use of ceilings, and lightning mixes (as in Thatchers Narrative when we see Kane as a child and again as an adult within the context of a single, completed sentence). ...
Story Levels
Rosebud
Before Kane is introduced, the audience is alarmed by a NO TRESPASSING sign and led through several disarming fences that are progressively finer. ... And we see the death of Kane. ... Kane took his life with his death. ... He is trying to reconstruct Kanes life for a movie, much like the actual movie, Citizen Kane does. ... Each narrative gives a specific opinion of Kane, allowing us to see that regardless of how many stories we are told about Kane, we will never have the truth without Kane himself.
Thatcher
Of all of the research Thompson conducts, Thatcher was the first person to encounter Charles Foster Kane. ... When Thompson walks into the vault, the journal is illuminated with heavenly light which assumes that it will be an illuminating manuscript from which we will learn the truth about Kane. ...
Bernstein
Bernsteins Narrative shows that Bernstein worships Kane. When Thompson interviews Bernstein, he has a picture of Kane looking down on him from the wall beyond him, delineating the grandeur of Kane and his power even after his death. ... Bernstein accounts for the beginning of the newspaper empire, wherein Kane is optimistic about the plight of the lower class and determined to help them, which invokes the child Kane yelling about Unions, as if his views of the world are childlike. ... He is portrayed as an aging man with a somewhat fuzzy memory by not showing him in deep focus, again relaying that we will not be given an accurate account of Kane because Lelands memory is no longer reliable. Leland gives Thompson the tale of Kane and Emily, and tells that Kane considered Susan "a cross section of the American public." Leland has a slightly disdainful view of Kane. He believed that Kane changed for the worse when he bought out The Chronicles staff and threw an enormous party. He also asked Kane if he could have his Declaration of Principles, which he eventually sent back to Kane to prove Kanes moral decline.
Approximate Word count = 1859
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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