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    Citizen Kane Essay

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    incorporates a whole range of themes and techniques‚ some more than others. A main theme presented throughout the film by Orson Welles is ‘What is lost‚ cannot be found’. Welles presents this theme thoroughly through his use of symbolism of Kane’s Sled‚ the brilliant use of camera angles‚ as well as the simple use of dialogue to represent Kane’s feelings. These three components used by Welles provides the audience with the key theme of a man having everything he wanted in life‚ yet all he really was his childhood

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    playing a lovable character — a "squishy‚ loser hero" — but rather a dark‚ brooding genius. In order to capture the genius that is the faux Stine‚ Black‚ who admits he is no Daniel Day-Lewis‚ turned to another on-screen genius for inspiration: Orson Welles. "I wanted to give [my Stine] a little extra gravitas‚" says Black. "I couldn’t just be good‚ old Jables playing the genius writer‚ so I wanted to do someone who was considered a genius and maybe had a dark secret. It

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    terminology. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed‚ co-written‚ produced by‚ and starring Orson Welles. This was Welles’s first feature film. With this film‚ Welles introduced many new filmmaking innovations. Some of the innovations were in cinematography‚ storytelling techniques‚ and special effects‚ lighting and framing of a scene. One of the greatest movies of all time was Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Almost all of the movies of the time were told chronologically and had a beginning

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    directed by and acted by Orson Welles. The story was set in Xanada in Florida and started with an introduction about that place. Citizen Kane has a strange opening as it opened with the camera panning a spooky haunted mansion and then the camera lingered and zoomed in closely to the sign saying ¡§No Trepassing‚ ¡¨ then the camera took us to the room in the house‚ we saw a person was lying on the bed and that was the main character of the story ¡§Charles Foster Kane.¡¨ (Orson Welles) We could see that he

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    Othello Movie Review

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    Despite working with low-budget and a small crew‚ Orson Welles makes his Othello interesting and memorable through several techniques. He generates a sense of suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film‚ he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live up to the viewer’s ideals of the characters

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    Citizen Kane Analysis

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    Pick 2 out of the 3 images and analyse in depth how their composition affects the storytelling of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. Word Count: Max 600words. In this long shot we see Kane’s mother in the foreground is sigining the documents for Kane to be taken by the banker. Kane however is in the background playing with the snow. It shows the innocence in Kane who is playing happily in the snow and unaware of what is happening to his future. The mother is the one signing the documents which demostrates

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    Rachael Rice Humanities What Was The Federal Theatre Project????? Throughout the late 1920 ’s an important theatrical movement developed: The Workers ’ Theatre Movement. In the end‚ it diminished around the middle of the 1930 ’s‚ and one of the developments aiding the decline of the Workers ’ Theatre Movement‚ was the creation of the Federal Theatre Project. The Federal Theatre Project was the largest and most motivated effort mounted by the Federal Government to organize and produce

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    night Halloween eve radiobroadcast of Orson Welles’ adaptation of the War of the Worlds. As the sun was setting and the moon began to take its place‚ listeners all around the country sat on the edge of their seats as Orson Welles orchestrated the greatest hoax radio had ever seen. In fact‚ this horrifying broadcast twisted believers to its will in such a way that it is still thought to be one of the most significant events in radio history. In 1938‚ Orson Welles capitalized on the fragile state of

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    Citizen Kane

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    ’s home‚ the palatial Xanadu‚ seems steeped in perpetual night.(Giannetti 489).” Also as Kane aged he became slower in his movements through the film.A major portion of the photography is linked to mise en scene. Citizen Kane was created by Orson Welles who was great at staging an action theatrically. The mise en scene was “tightly framed and closed form”(Giannetti 492). Depth was used many times throughout the movie. For example scenes when Kane ’s parents are signing documents to send him off

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    Conflicts in Citizen Kane

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    Conflicts in the film “Citizen Kane” In the film “Citizen Kane”‚ Orson Welles’ debut film‚ many conflicts are perpetrated. I feel one of the most showcased conflicts in this film is Welles’ portrayal of William Randolph Hearst as a man who could never experience true happiness through his use of purchasing all things that he loved in one way or another. Although many things were acquired through non-monetary means throughout his life‚ money was typically the motivation or the main way he gained

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