Of course, a twenty-five- or six-year-old youth can do a lot in storytelling, but it can do a lot in craftsmanship. Returning to the first sentence of this article, what if it is an appreciator who is interested in filmmaking skills? He will find that there are too many cool ingredients in it. There are a large number of bad depth-of-field shots represented by the sledding scene, a large number of high-quality montages represented by eating breakfast, playing the piano, and playing jigsaw puzzles, with light and dark light bulbs to metaphorize Susan's singing career and other symbolic techniques, as well as the anti-running problem "rose" "Flower Bud" (a typical MacGuffin, don't need to delve into its meaning), which makes the overall structure compact and the effect gorgeous. This technique is still used in the industry today, and it is still difficult for the director to control. Therefore, when it was released in the 1940s, it surpassed the brain hole of the vast majority of audiences at that time, and today, because of its own characteristics, it will not become a popular classic that everyone can't put it down.
But even if you don't like the film, it's impossible not to be drawn to Orson Welles's life saga.
25 is an important age for anyone. Even Monroe, who has always been cute, said seriously in "Some Like It Hot": "25, that's one-fourth of a century, makes a girl think." Citizen Kane's release date is May 1941 On the 1st, it was infinitely close to Welles' 26th birthday. It can be considered that Wells himself prepared a big gift for himself. To end and commemorate my 25th with such a work that has rewritten history and can immortalize my name in textbooks, in my opinion, it is too beautiful and has no regrets. Of course, Master Wei himself believed that this was far from the beginning, and he never expected that he was already in the curtain call. Kane, who lives in the "Shangdu", also believes that this palace should only be the prelude to his career, but he did not expect that he would end up alone in it. The tycoon mapped by Kane is not happy, (The nature of "Citizen Kane" is not similar to an elegant version of "Assassination of the Three Fat Kings", in addition to mapping the tycoon at that time, I think Kane has Wells' own There are definitely a lot of ingredients) The audience did not buy it, the film and television company has imposed more constraints on him since then, and later a slightly bleak directing career, these plots are all very clear to everyone.
The so-called legends are mostly beautiful mistakes. If RKO had not neglected to give Welles so much privileged creative freedom, then there would not have been a huge loss caused by the shooting of "Citizen Kane". Wells' career Careers won't come close to withering. But then, will Citizen Kane, a paragon of beautiful mistakes, still be there?
Then I pondered and assumed, if this mistake hadn't happened, if Wells hadn't been given so much freedom at such a young age, and had followed the normal course of history, would he have been more productive , to bring more and better works to the society, and to advance the entire history of film art as a whole for many, many years? Will there be a more sophisticated technology and a more mature story at a more appropriate age to make a film that ditches Citizen Kane? unknown. Maybe after the polishing of life, he will no longer dare to show off his skills as bravely as he was 25 years old and express himself boldly. So, again, legends are beautiful mistakes. Just like a famous person said a sentence, who can't remember, to the effect, "It was not Goethe who created "Faust," but "Faust" created Goethe." The same applies to Wells and his Citizen Kane.
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