Citizen Kane by Orson Welles

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Charles Foster Kane is really a winner, and he is a leader, a favorite of millions, and, at the same time, the person whom people hate. Kane is the newspaper's magnate, richest man, politician, and his election speech is full of sarcasm and self-satisfaction. There are also wide self-promotion, endless promises, slander, and discretization of opponents. Even in this, the film did not lose a modern sound. The point of shooting emphasizes the originality of Kane (Gleiberman). Its lens pointing is upwards, and wide-angle lens gives the feeling that the main character literally rests to the ceiling. This technique was a cinematic hallmark of the director. It was repeated in the subsequent works, and, for example, in the film "The Trial" on the novel by Franz Kafka.

In conclusion, the movie "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles took the significant point in the film history. Welles introduced the new techniques, his own style, and own angle of view for the world of the movie. The angle of the camera, its frames, forms, styles, narrative, views, and techniques are the hallmark of the director. Moreover, other directors, such as Tarantino and Godart, took some ideas how to manage the own films while the point of shooting was approved for the film "The Trial" on the novel by Franz Kafka. Undoubtedly, Welles was a genius and founder of the new approaches in the world of the cinema.

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Works Cited

Gleiberman, Owen. “Citizen Kane.” Entertainment, Entertainment, 3 May 1991, www.ew.com/article/1991/05/03/citizen-kane.

Welles, Orson, and Herman J. Mankiewicz. “Citizen Kane.” Citizen Kane (1941) - Rotten Tomatoes, 2005, www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizen_kane.