"Citizen Kane"

Gary Stevens

English 52/ Film as Lit.

P. Jeffrey Clark

3-3-97

Citizen Kane

        There are umteen movies that could be considered to be the

superior movies of all time. The movie Citizen Kane is

considered by many to be the greatest movie of all time. What

makes it one of the greatest movies of all time. Can it be

how well Orson Wells uses Mise- en- scene; roll in the hay it be the way

that the film was structured and organized. Maybe it is the

way that Orson Wells tells the enigmatic and inte reliefing life

story of Charles Foster Kane. These are the questions that I

will take a saying at, and hopefully possibly add a few details

of my own.

        From the disruption scene of the movie we are given great

detail on the tendency that the movie is supposed to serve.

The first thing that we are shown is a no trespassing hallow

that is posted to a barbed wire fence. I donÕt know how

others interpreted that sign and that fence; but I kind of

got the feeling that mortal didnÕtÕ want to be bothered. I

also immediately felt desire I wasnÕt invited into the cloak-and-dagger

life of the person living in the menage.



The house is on a

great big hill completely secluded from the rest of human

life. In the opening scene we are also told that the person

living in the house is very well traveled. We know this

because in the mebibyte there are Gondolas; Gondolas are boats

that come from Madrid. That also told me that he is pretty

wealthy if he can afford to have a secluded house and travel

a lot. The story of Charles Foster Kane begins when he is a

young child; the tour of the hero starts with him...

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