Since he is a genius, you should still follow

Lupe 2022-04-20 09:01:07

As a blockbuster that I have heard countless times, my overall evaluation of "Citizen Kane" is nothing short of disappointing, slightly exceeding expectations. As an old black-and-white film from 1941, I can't expect it to be as vivid and eye-catching as a modern film. It can only be said from the plot and choreography, and this is precisely in the age when visual effects are not yet developed. This film does a very good job It can also serve as a model for all movies (I always think that the most important thing in movies is the screenwriter).

Is rosebud the sled from childhood? The suspenseful word rosebud is revealed in the melting pot at the end of the film, and it is impossible to identify whether it is engraved on the sled that Kane played with as a child and used to beat his adopter. I've always felt that although the sale is attractive, the final explanation doesn't make enough sense.

Watch the best part of the whole show again: through interviews with the characters in the series (which happens to be everyone in his life, so the ex-wife is drunk at first, and it is not until the end that the story is rounded up, because she is on the timeline. The last man), chronologically depicts the image of this century's hero and media tycoon - his prototype is the American media tycoon William Hearst (William Randolph Hearst) - the owner of Hearst Castle. I once passed this place and couldn't visit it due to time constraints, but I had a brief glimpse of my life. He was a profound person who learned all the liberal arts with his mother when he was in his 10s, and traveled all over the world.

He entered the American media in the 1880s, and since then he has gradually absorbed and absorbed most of the entire American media. He has formed distinct personal characteristics and mainstreamed pornographic information publications such as Playboy, which is not mentioned in the film. What the movie talks about is another aspect, that is, he expands the gossip, making the traditional serious and serious news into an entertainment-oriented and civilian-oriented newspaper.

In fact, Hirst, the prototype of the movie character, was never a good boy. He had been expelled from prestigious schools many times, including when he ran a school newspaper at Harvard to ridicule the pivotal figures in the academy-he printed celebrities on the urinal-and was expelled from school. When I saw this piece of history, I liked this character very much, and felt that he was not afraid of authority, so he must be able to be eclectic. In the movie, he mentioned the school he went to with his friends, but did not perform this part, which is a pity. Since he was a boy in Europe, he said that he would buy the Louvre Museum and would spend all the money on it. The people he likes buy them. This is slightly reflected in the sculptures he collects in the movie. However, there is no impressive portrayal. However, he buys all the people he likes. This point is very good. The rival "Documentary" bought all the famous pens, and held a grand banquet, sang his own hymn, this section fully demonstrated Hirst's excellent skills.

He is a rebellious character with a strong personality: at the beginning he beat his adopter with a sled, and when he was expected to inherit the hegemony of the entire consortium, he chose to run a newspaper and lose 1 million a year—“Even so, you The assets are enough to make it lose 60 years," he smiled nonchalantly to the adopter; when the first wife and campaign opponent discovered his singer lover and threatened him to quit the campaign, he chose to stay with the lover, and He vowed to tear his opponent apart without flinching; his lover would later become his second wife, and he would rather let her have no talent to sing the world's despised song, rather than his own vision and singer talent to admit defeat. It was not until the end that the singer finally broke down and let her stop singing.

I greatly admire and envy such characters. Destroy the world without adding frustration, it is he who is talking about. He has his own extremely stubborn obsession, the world can only compromise with me, and I cannot let me compromise with the world. It can only be me to conquer the world, not the world to transform me. I don't care about reputation, so I'm willing to risk being slandered by opponents, and I don't want to be a man with a tail tucked in because of preserving reputation. How many of the people who criticized him around him did what he did? Especially the old friend who fell asleep in the middle of writing a drama review. They say that Kane (Hurst) has only himself and no one else in his heart, can only act by his pride, and without such a strong mind, there would be no intact personality. Each of them has their own complaints, but Kane (Hurst) is self-willed enough to ignore their opinions. And his thoughts, though powerful, are not evil. He visited Hitler during the World War in 1934, and Hitler asked him at the time: "Why can't America understand us?" Hirst replied: "Because America believes in democracy, and you have only despotism." I think such values ​​are harmless to the world. Since he is a genius, you should follow it.

The most interesting sentence in the whole play is when the singer's wife was disliked by the vocal teacher, Kane encouraged his wife and said to the vocal teacher: I'm the authority on what people will think. I want to add another sentence to him, that is :and I find out that the best way to deal with it is don't give a damn to what people will think.

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Citizen Kane quotes

  • [Susan is leaving Kane]

    Charles Foster Kane: [pleading] Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.

    Susan Alexander Kane: I see. So it's YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.

    [laughs]

    Susan Alexander Kane: I can't do this to you?

    [odd smile]

    Susan Alexander Kane: Oh, yes I can.

  • [On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing]

    Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that?

    Jedediah Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer.