Kane derides the idea of his paper remaining closed 12 hours a day: later, he will buy an opera house for his wife to sing in and for his newspapers to promote. He told Peter Bogdanovich in their celebrated interview series in that he never saw Citizen Kane again after watching a finished print in an empty Los Angeles cinema six months before it opened in — and never stayed to watch the film at the premiere.
One of the main characters is Jedediah Leland, played by Joseph Cotten with his handsome, sensitive face. Leland is pathetic, with neither the cunning to suppress his opinion, nor the courage to express it plainly. He slumps drunk over his typewriter and in an ecstasy of self-hate and masochistic defiance and despair, Kane completes the review himself.
I wonder how many newspaper bosses have watched that scene and taken it as a how-to guide for triumphalism at work. It was a lavish, but strangely tense occasion, a notionally generous send off for an editor whom English had forced into retirement.
After a speech full of clenched and insincere bonhomie, the editor-in-chief brusquely asked us all to raise our champagne glasses — he did so himself, his arm extended. Moments are what we are left with in Citizen Kane : a pointilliste constellation of gleaming moments from which we can never quite stand far enough back to see the bigger picture in its entirety. Kane and Susan begin to argue in their private tent while music and dancing begin outside, becoming more abandoned and maybe even orgiastic.
The scenes of Kane and Susan together in Xanadu are eerie: an Expressionist bad dream, all darkness and weird perspectives, the couple marooned in the gigantic, sinister house, Kane prowling up to Susan while she morosely fits together a jigsaw. At the age of 25, he takes control of the New York Inquirer and embarks on a career of yellow journalism. Despite interviewing all of Kane's living acquaintances, Thompson never discovers the truth.
Having no real cinematic experience, Welles turned for inspiration to one of the most acclaimed films of his day: John Ford's iconic Western, Stagecoach.
However, at the beginning of the film - the event that sets the plot in motion - Kane collapses, drops the snow-globe he's holding, utters "Rose Bud" with his last breath, and then the nurse walks in to find him dead. Considering that Kane was alone when the words were uttered, how does anyone know that he said them?
I heard him say it. He just said "Rosebud" and then he dropped that glass ball and it broke on the floor. But I knew how to take care of him. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. Finally, he goes through the astonishing, ramshackle treasurehouse of Xanadu, looking for clues. Nothing can tell him what Rosebud is. Defeated, and with just a certain air of sour grapes, Thompson decides his quest has been futile. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost, but it wouldn't have explained anything.
I don't think any word explains a man's life. As the journalists prepare to abandon Xanadu the camera cuts to a pile of junk being thrown onto the furnace. And there, in the pyre, is the little boy's sled, with the word Rosebud clearly visible, briefly, before the flames devour it forever.
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