Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

  • Director: Orson Welles
  • Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz,Orson Welles,John Houseman
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Italian
  • Release date: September 5, 1941
  • Runtime: 1h 59min
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: American
  • "Citizen Kane" is a biographical film filmed by Orson Welles in 1940. Orson Welles is the director, producer, and screenwriter, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten , Agnes Moorehead , Dorothy Comingore, etc.
    The film takes a newspaper tycoon dying alone in a mansion as the prologue. It revolves around the word "rose bud" that he uttered before his death, and tells the extraordinary experience of his life. 
    The film was released in the United States on May 1, 1941, and won seven nominations for the 14th Academy Awards, and finally won the best original screenplay award. 

    Details

    • Release date September 5, 1941
    • Filming locations Busch Gardens - S. Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA
    • Production companies RKO Radio Pictures, Mercury Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $839,727 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,585,634

    Gross worldwide

    $1,603,237

    Movie reviews

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    • By Deonte 2022-06-14 12:12:05

      Citizen Kane: A Unique Masterpiece of the Movie Sea

      "Citizen Kane" is a masterpiece written, directed, and acted by the American director Orson Welles, who is known as the "movie prodigy". The film was released in the United States on May 1, 1941, and was nominated for seven Academy Awards at the 14th Academy Awards, winning the award for Best Original Screenplay. Andre Bazin, a well-known French film theorist, once commented on the film: "Orson Welles should be immortalized with his "Citizen Kane",...

    • By Effie 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      mob

      After watching the full play for 119 minutes, I can only use shock to describe my feelings. It is hard to imagine that a 1941 movie can already have such an amazing performance in camera switching and plot development.
      Let's start with the film's title, Citizen Kane, which is an ironic title that perfectly echoes his social status of chasing Politician Kane for most of his life.
      Let's talk about the "Rosebud" that runs through the whole play. At the end, when the cleaner was cleaning...

    • By Wayne 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      interesting life

      I haven't had the courage to watch this film history classic, because I don't like the title. When I saw the title, I thought it was a movie describing the political situation and the means of popular elections, and I decided that it was boring to me.
      After watching it in its entirety, I didn't feel good or bad, I could say I didn't feel anything at all. The 1941 film is no longer new.
             In my opinion, "Citizen Kane" is quite ordinary. It is nothing more than a very rich rich man...

    • By Mae 2022-04-24 07:01:02

      A sled changes a person

      It should represent the level of filmmaking in an era. I didn't see too many characters' souls, just saw a lot of editing traces "with immature but new ideas at the time".
             Kane's fate was completely changed on a snowy day, and perhaps his sleigh became his eternal pain ever since. I really don't understand how people with different personalities and identities like his parents can be together. It's probably full of unspeakable secrets.
             Later, educated by aristocrats, he...

    • By Scotty 2022-04-23 07:01:07

      Citizen Kane: Wounds That A Kingdom Can't Heal (Severe Spoilers)

      The 1941 movie can still touch the soul 75 years later, without the need for color, the visual effects constructed by black and white light and shadow are full of strong emotions, this is a classic.

      When Kane choked and begged Susan not to go, when Kane was playing with the glass ball with snowflakes and muttering "rosebud", I finally understood his pain.

      As said in the film, "A rosebud is just a piece of cardboard in a jigsaw puzzle, the missing piece." Yes, he was an...

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    • By Rosemary 2023-09-25 23:11:09

      A self-reflection on American history and politics, Citizen Kane has been trying to fight the so-called "capitalist system" that hurt him since he was deprived of his right to love. Resistance in society becomes the result of the discipline of society itself. Kane actually replicated the violence he suffered, and the palace he built and his control over the showgirls undoubtedly proved that he was just another tyrant who called for freedom and anti-power, and his fatal tragedy was that the...

    • By Beth 2023-09-08 14:12:15

      K. Rosebud: not obtained, lost, sled: a turning point of fate, the counterattack of the intervened. The open multi-view structure and flashback processing, the ingenious combination of long shots and montages, the deep shots, and the spatial deformation of mirror images combine documentary and expressiveness. A monument to modern cinema. Self-directed and self-directed. Snow crystal...

    • By Roselyn 2023-08-18 06:33:58

      Roger Ebert's commentary tracks include but are not limited to: squatting is controlling, raising is obsession, left is a betrayal, right is a witness; double entry may be a general advance or a relationship comparison, over-the-shoulder close-ups are positive and negative emotional tension The focus is the most intense, followed by non-shoulders, and the few close-ups not only make it shocking and remembered once it appears, but also make the relationship between characters and the development...

    • By Johnnie 2023-08-06 23:36:28

      It breaks the traditional single-line narrative structure and causal chain, and uses non-linear and flashback narrative methods for "puzzle-style" characterization, which forms a subtle echo with Susan's "puzzle" in the castle in the second half. Furthermore, Eisenstein's "shock" montage is replaced by a large depth-of-field lens (depth lens) to achieve an ideographic effect, and when describing the current situation where Kane and his first wife's emotions are gradually fading away, he uses a...

    • By Rodrigo 2023-07-06 03:11:08

      [A+] The main reason for winning the "Best in Film History" is nothing more than perfecting all the elements in the film. Not to mention the depth-of-field shots that are highly praised by everyone, Ao Pang’s idea is far more than that: look at those amazing superimposed transitions, accompanied by the characters’ narration, the memory gradually wraps up the “reality”, and then in the Certain shadowy corners gradually fade out, and the only thing that can rival this technique is Apocalypse Now....

    Movie plot

    In 1940, a deserted manor in Zenadu, Florida, was submerged in the dark night. Only one room had a window with lights still on. This was the newspaper King Charles Foster Kane (Orson Way (Decoration) 's bedroom. Kane lay peacefully on the bed, and the glass ball crystal in his hand flashed a marvelous view: pieces of snow fell on a farmhouse.
    Kane's aging and low voice sounded in the silence: "Rose bud!" Then his hand slowly let go, the...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    The film was originally called "American", when George Schaefer, the owner of Raiden Hua Company, suggested that it be changed to "Citizen Kane". Wells also considered using the name "John Q.".
    There is a bug in the film, that is, because Kane died alone, his last words "Rosebud" will not be heard.
    At the beginning of the film, only the title was typed without the starring name, which was unprecedented in Hollywood at the....
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    Depth of Field Shot

    The reporter's view of the information turns into Kane's childhood through dissolving: Kane is playing with a small sled carefree on the snow. When the camera is opened, Little Kane becomes the background scene. In the foreground, the mother standing in front of the window, the window, and the mother walks to the foreground and the banker talks about Little Kane's fate at the table. The camera slowly opened. From Kane to his mother and...
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    Evaluation action

    The challenge of "Citizen Kane" is mainly reflected in its bold breakthrough of traditional film aesthetics. It does not belong to any genre of genre movies. With the spirit of pioneering the "New World", Wells created a unique and innovative multi-perspective modern narrative structure. Starting from the death of Kane, the interview conducted by the young reporter Thomson to solve the mystery of the "Rosebud" led to five different...
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    Movie quotes

    • Boss Jim Gettys: You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.

    • Jedediah Leland: [about Kane's "Declaration of Principles"] I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. A document...

      Mr. Bernstein: Sure!

      Jedediah Leland: ...like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and my first report card at school.

    • Jedediah Leland: You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.