1. In the movie Citizen Kane, there are so many important facts to remember such as, when Charles Kane was eight years old, his own mother signed custody of him over to a banker named, Walter Thatcher. Because his mother signed custody over, Kane did not have a normal childhood and he built up a sense of animosity towards Mr. Thatcher and as a result everything Charles did was an attempt to antagonize Mr. Thatcher. At a young age Charles Became extremely wealthy; when he was twenty-five years old
Orson Welles' 1941 cult classic, Citizen Kane. While the film is widely regarded for several cinematic elements such as its cinematography and background score, what stands out is the narrative style employed by Welles and co-screenplay writer, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Perhaps, what is most noteworthy was the demand the film made of its audience, to follow and deduce the plot as it unraveled, something we are used to as film viewers of this generation, but for its times was path breaking. The cinematic techniques
Title of Movie: Citizen Kane BW/Color: Black and White Original Release Date: 1941 By RKO Radio Pictures Screenplay by: Herman J. Mankiewicz , Orson Welles Director: Orson Welles Principal Actors: • Orson Welles = Charles Foster Kane, a rich newspaper publisher whose life is the film's subject. • Joseph Cotten = Jedidiah Leland, Kane's friend and reporter on Kane's paper. Leland works for Kane as his business grows. Leland gets fired after he writes a negative review of Susan’s operatic
Hollywood in the 30’s and 40’s was the golden-age of a new era of filmmaking. The films of that period went beyond the silent films being produced in the past. Diagetic sounds like dialogue and more advanced filmic techniques would push cinema to a new mode of filmmaking, that being classicism. The classical Hollywood structure was being developed in the past with silent films but it came to full fruition in the 30’s, where many filmmakers would produce feature-length films with fully developed