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Synopsis
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- The Cost of AmbitionThemeThe film opens with the man already dead and spends two hours asking what he traded for the empire; the answer is a word nobody in the room hears the meaning of.
- Stairs and LevelsMotifWelles shoots Kane from below until the ceilings press down on him, then strands Susan at the foot of Xanadu's staircase: rank measured in where the camera has to stand.
- Time Out of OrderMotifThe life arrives in fragments, ordered by whoever happens to be remembering it — the newsreel first, so the shape is known before the man is.
Credits
- Producer
- Orson Welles, George Schaefer
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Screenplay
- Orson Welles, John Houseman, Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Director of Photography
- Gregg Toland
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Editor
- Robert Wise
Box office · USD, worldwide
Cast · 20
Trailer
3:45Orson Welles. Public domain — from Wikimedia Commons, re-encoded and served from our own storage.
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