Richard Griffith disparaged the film as "tinpot if not crackpot Freud" in 1949's "The Movie So Far" ("If it's not a crackpot, it's just a tin pot", It means mediocre, if not lame).
Until Andre Bazin's review: The Evolution of Cinematic Language in the 1950s, Citizen Kane was considered an epoch-making contribution to the expressiveness of cinema. (Omitted)
[Distribution of time content]
Flash back: editing technique, using one or a series of shots describing the past to insert the memories of several people in the current
shots agent), Bernstein (partner), Raymond (housekeeper), Leland (classmate and friend) - the most time-distributed, Susan (second wife) - the most time-distributed
on a sequential basis, Group of clumps.
1. Prologue
2. News shorts
3. Prelude
4. Conceptualized
flashbacks of portraits
9. Ending
10. Cast and crew
[plot structure]
Last words are progress → puzzle solving process
Puzzle-style puzzle solving process: 5 pieces of puzzle → Kane's inner world . Only rosebud.
From a subjective perspective, 5 people have 5 different emotional relationships and evaluations of Kane.
[Topic]
Loneliness and helplessness in the depths of human nature, a deep sense of failure;
the paradox between struggle and gain: people will inevitably die, but it depends on what you lose in the end;
How the great and mediocre man in the industrial world of capitalist society in the early 20th century lost his most precious things in the process of struggle.
The symbol of the rosebud: love (family affection, love, friendship) → caring → missing and yearning for
childhood
[Audio-visual analysis]
Depth of field long shot (long shot: mobile zoom long shot, depth of field long shot) and scene scheduling
1. Depth of field long shot and scene Scheduling Examples
: Old Kane's conversations with Bernstein and Thatcher → Cover up;
Thompson's first visit to Susan;
Thatcher took away childhood Kane;
Kane wrote comments in place of Leland.
Susan's suicide was discovered
2. Editing techniques
1. Smooth editing to
acquire the Chronicle;
Kane applauded when Susan sang to Kane's voter applause when he was campaigning.
2. Hollywood montage (the images overlap each other in a continuous manner)
Susan's performance;
multiple exposures; the
effect of overprinting of the shots
3. The editing of the series (according to the internal drama logic)
6 of Kane and his first wife Emily having a meal A scene;
6 puzzles of boring Susan playing jigsaw puzzles
3. The use of light and sound effects
Atmospheric perspective effect, near-dark and far-bright
backlight processing (see the end of the documentary): Character conceptualization (objectification)
Sound effects: music, live sound effects
4. Low-angle photography
looking up from the perspective, but "tall" in "hero films" is different. Kane's image is tall but his heart is humble → irony
5. Post-production - special effects
[The status of this film]
Through several The complexities of Kane's character are recounted by different characters. Multi-perspective narrative structure.
Depth of field, long shot, sound montage.
It is a clear sign that modern films are different from traditional films
. Deep focus → vertical and horizontal depth of field, visual impact, and connotation of image language.∴It was praised by James Naley Moore as having the "luxury of a seven-layer cake" like a kaleidoscope. The
use of props (close-up), mirror imaging (end) → combined at the same time Spatial content inside (the part that the camera cannot capture)
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