The apparent intellectual superficiality of Citizen Kane can be traced to the shallow quality of Kane himself. Even when Kane is seen as a crusading journalist battling for the lower classes, overtones of self-idolatry mar his actions. His clever ironies are more those of the exhibitionist than the crusader...
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Kane even used his paper to attack a company of which he himself, along with Thatcher, was the major shareholder. As Thatcher prepared to leave after his discussion with Kane on what new is, he mentioned to Kane his enormous losses, which totaled one million dollars for the year, a staggering sum to have been lost by one person, especially at that time...
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How does the film's (Citizen Kane) cinematography and soundtrack affect emotional reactions to characters and the situations they face, using specific scenes from the film. The music's grandiose feeling gives more weight to the fact that it is the ending scene of the movie. This scene is a destruction of the material possessions that symbolically encompass the entirety of Kane's life and destruction of the happiness he only felt as a child; therefore the music is appropriate...	2 / 386
Citizen Kane Kane had been trying to buy her love by building her an opera house and trying to make her into an Opera star. Leland simply puts it like this, "All Charlie ever wanted was to be loved but he could never give love"...	2 / 427
Citizen Kane- orson welles Lighting plays another key role here because Norton is the only one light up, leaving Kane and Gettys as darkened beings. This visual symbolism is apparent throughout the rest of the scene as well...	2 / 372
Citizen Kane When Susan Alexander, Kane's second wife, wanted to be a singer, Kane got her a teacher, and began from there, to create a singer. He built an Opera house and made her into a glamourous star...	3 / 600