Citizen Kane Questions (SPOILERS).. OLD MOVIE 1941

[mpg]

Rosebud refers to his missing childhood with his parents, fun, and friends? Possibly everything missing in his life when sarah left? Thats basically it I just want to make shure before I write a commentary on it. How would you write a commentary on a person's life (Kane)?

 

[Soybomb]

Well rosebud was specifically the sled, but yes you could say thats what it represented. Kane's life eolved to be more ego centric, and revolved around his empire and material possessions than true happiness. To write the commentary I would just chronologically go through his life writing about what was important to him, his actions, etc, include quotations.

 

[mpg]

Ok. I really enjoyed the movie it was kind of like a Hitchcock filck.

 

[mpg]

Thanks for the help SoyBomb I will start probally Thursday.

 

[Damaged]

Ahhh....rosebud. Citizen Kane is a classic. I would argue still one of the 20 best movies ever. IMHO Wells greatest movie, The Magnificent Ambersons et al, not withstanding.

How to write the commentary though. Focus on the imagery in that film. In particular how the scenes where he envisions his boyhood.

The great American dream is not all it's made out to be.

 

[DaveJ]

I love that movie... one of the best scenes is the one where Kane and his wife sit down to breakfast... in the beginning, they're all happy and such but you see them growing farther apart, and the scene ends with both on opposite ends of the table, each reading a different newspaper, Kane's wife reading a rival paper to his own...

Dave

 

[matmax]

great flick, right up ther with blade runner. innocence lost and replaced with materialism. how the small things in life can take on completely different meanings when one faces his/her mortality.

 

[yakko]

Citizen Kane is a great movie. Every time they play it at Tampa Theater I go watch it on the big screen. They play it almost every year.