1.) Relate what was discussed in class or text to the screening
Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles, was predicted to be a failure when it was released in 1941. According to the American film institute Citizen Kane was ranked as the best american film of all times recieveing 11 oscar nomitations and 3 awards for best picture, director, and actor. Citizen Kane was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles when he was only 24 years old, making this his first film ever. RKO gave Welles complete script control, director control, producer control, cast control and everything he needed. With Welles in control, Citizen Kane was able to become a huge success to America.
2.) Find a related article and summarize the content
According to Robert Ebert, Citizen Kane is one of the miracles of cinema, "It is more than a great movie, it is the gathering of all lessons of the emerging era of sound". Welles and Mankiewics worked hard to create every piece of citizen kane and they employed the best to do it such as Gregg Toland, cinematographer who worked on John Ford's "The Long Voyage Home", Joseph Cotten as Jed Leland (his New York colleague), and a few others with experince in the roles they played. The story Welles and Mankiewics put together was a masterpiece because "it created an emotional chronology set free from time" and "the screen play skips around in time, piecing together memories of those who knew Charles Foster Kane". The movie shows how our lives go after death, surviving only through the memories of others.
3) Apply the article to the film screened in class
Citizen Kane intended and was an obvious depiction of William Hearst's own personal life. Now knowing that Hearst family wasn't happy with the production of the film at all, it kind of makes me look at the film differently. Hearst claimed the film to be very deceptive an even exaggerated at certain parts such as his relationship with Susan Alexander, her alcoholic nature and his vigorous influence on her to be a successful opera singer.
4) Write a critical analysis of the film, including your personal opinion, formed as a result of the screening, class discussions, text material and the article.
Citizen Kane was a film that depicted many personal experiences of our own personal live that we go through. Charles Foster Kane was once a child of no worries or any big responsibility. His life seemed so simple in the scene depicting him as a child playing with his sled with the label Rosebud. He was then put into a position that granted a lot of opportunity but only with much responsibility. He went in and open his own newspaper publishing companies because it was something he thought would be fun and he was sincere an took his job as a duty. But with all this money and fame he lost the two romances of his life and spent the last few minutes of his life remembering his life as a child when he was simple an innocent and his final word is Rosebud.
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