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Citizen Kane (Patreon)

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2024-08-22 12:00:04
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2025-10-01 22:21:46
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Citizen Kane | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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Comments

Jeff K.

Arguably the second best film of Orson Welles's career, following Transformers: The Movie.

Keith Brown

This is the movie that yes worldwide makes the top 3 movies of all time. The tech behind the scenes revolutionized the way movies got made.

Matthew Johnson

If you watch the acting in another movie from this year and then compare it to this one, this one blows those movies out of the water. Welles brought a lot of his actors over from the theater and really changed how we thought about performance. I love Kane’s mother so much, such a layered character in just one scene.

Helly R
>>147255429

Also the non-linear storytelling, using deep focus to convey power dynamics of the characters, the special effects etc... Bunch of this had been done before, but not that extreme and not all in one movie

Mark McConnell

This is a movie where the trivia section of your review could be longer than the movie. Welles, not only starred in the movie, he was the producer and director. Many of the shots, and ways to obtain those shots in the movie were invented by Welles and became industry staples. Many consider Kane to be the greatest movie ever made (my faves rotate between Kane, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Godfather pt2, and Apocalypse Now) but it’s hard to argue against it being the most important and influential movie ever made.

paul rai

Would highly recommend David Fincher’s Mank, starring Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried. It chronicles the struggles and life of Herman J. Mankiewicz, who co-wrote the screenplay of Citizen Kane, and it follows how he based the character of of the real life figure, William Randolph Hearst (who at the time developed the largest newspaper chain in the country that employed sensational journalism). It’s a great movie that is a fun and engaging commentary on 1930s-1940s Hollywood, American politics, and using film has expose journalism. It’s not one that everyone loves but I love just how ambitious it is, and I love movies that examine and explore old Hollywood and real life figures and Mank features a lot of real-life Hollywood figures and history.

Renee MeowMeow Beans

George, if you enjoy this speech cadence, you should definitely try the Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy - it's a pastiche comedy of that style in older movies. 🙂

punterjoe

George mentions the 'old timey' vocal delivery. I suspect that the mid-atlantic accent, vocal tone and cadence was at least somewhat due to the fact that microphone and recording technology - as well as static-y AM radio was such low-fidelity and that annoying vocal affectation cut through all the noise and distortion. .....Just speculating..... 🤔

punterjoe
>>147255372

I still remember the day I learned the truth about Rosebud. Best. Easter Egg. Ever. 😏

punterjoe
>>147258836

Agreed! Hudsucker is woefully underrated. The Zoey Deschanel SNL sketch about fast-talking movie dames is also hilarious. But yeah, nobody - at least since Rosalind Russel - did it better than Jennifer Jason Leigh. 😁

Rachel W

Kane was based, loosely, on newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst.

MongoTheElder
>>147263071

And Xanadu is a reference to his massive mansion Hearst Castle on the California coast

Trevor Rotan

A must watch for any film goer. Also, there’s a movie with Lieb Schreiber and John Malkovich called RKO 281 that details the making of the film and the fight to get it released because Hurst found out it was about him and he tried to kill the film before it came out.

Dan Holmes

Yes Simone, Shia Labeouf absolutely parodied this shot :)

Happy Hanukkah

Bon appetit, Simone. I realize all the copyright nonsense you have to go through, but I'm not sure that showing the movie in black and white is the best solution.

Sergio Meira

One interesting thing about Citizen Kane is that so many movie narrative techniques -- like having something important happen in the background while the main characters talk in the foreground -- were actually invented in this movie. I imagine it was an overload of new ideas to the original audience, ideas that have become second nature to us now that we are used to movies that built upon them, but which were surprising in the 1940s...

Darin Foat

This film was shot by a cinematographer named Gregg Toland, who pioneered a technique called deep focus, which allows everything in the frame to be in sharp focus, regardless of the distance from the camera. For the rest of his life whenever Welles discussed this movie he made a point of giving equal credit to Toland for the success of the film. Basically the technique involves using a very small aperture on the camera, combined with very bright lighting. There are lots of detailed explanations online if you want all of the technical details.

Darin Foat

The "picnic" scene recycled background footage from King Kong. At around 23:53 in your video you can see a couple of animated pterodactyls flapping past in the background.

Magnificent Gojira
>>147286781

I'm sorry, that "something important happen in the background while the main characters talk in the foreground -- were actually invented in this movie" is hogwash. There's a ton of such things in screwballs in 30s, there are such things in french films of Carne and Jean Renoir (especially that one) in 30s. I'd suspect such shots in silent comedies in 20s and even earlier ones because they give opportunities for visual gags. I would as far as to say that this is not uncommon thing since Griffith at least

Magnificent Gojira

Yes, George, split-focus lense is 70s thing. Hope you get to see Carrie (1976). De Palma films have a lot of such shots

Ricardo Alanis

So many references in The Simpsons. When Marge was in A Streetcar Named Desire, Homer was the one fanning the torn playbill.

Michael Chavira

Fun Fact: There is a song by The White Stripes called "The Union Forever". In it, all the lyrics in the whole song are quotes from this movie :)

RogueRN

If you can, you should watch Drunk History’s segment on Citizen Kane. Not for the channel, just as something entertaining. It goes into the fued between Orson Wells and Wm. Randolf Hurst. Granted, I’m sure there are much more detailed, historically accurate sources to look into if you want all the details, but Drunk History does it in a comedic way and in under 10 mins.

Sheens

What most blows my mind is that Orson Welles was 25 years old when he wrote, directed, and was the main star in arguably the most influential movie ever made. Also, major kudos noticing shots that showed the ceiling. You're right, this is the first time a movie used them this extensively because everything else was largely shot on soundstages. Highly recommend reading Roger Ebert's companion guide for this movie.

James Falato

No one in the film finds out the significance of "Rosebud" but We do... His regrets of never realizing the Love he Lost from his Mother and having only the "Rosebud" sled and the Snow Globe to remind him...

JOEDATOR
>>147296660

This is why I like to surprise people by asking “How many dinosaurs are in Citizen Kane?” and the answer is “not zero”

HeyHeyJK

So, if you haven't already, look up video of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, It's the real building that Xanadu is based on in this film and it blew my f**king mind when I visited years ago. Not just the opulence and scale of it - 165 rooms along with lavish indoor and outdoor pools, a zoo at one point, gardens, etc. - but the logistics that had to go into building it were truly astonishing. It sits on 123 acres about a mile up a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the work that went into getting the materials and workers up and down that hill for decades seems impossible. They started construction in 1919 and stopped in 1947 and it still wasn't finished. It even had an airstrip so Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, etc., could fly in for parties and frivolity (and probably a bit of debauchery, as well).

Hope For Us Network

Citizen Kane is easily the most studied film ever made. It has gone thru an era of utter reverence as the greatest film ever made. A revisionist era in the 90s & early 2000s deconstructing and downplaying Citizen as overrated. And finally thanks to the stewardship of people like Roger Ebert the film has returned to its rightful place as the most influential English language film in cinema. As far as being the best that's an open debate for others to have, but Citizen Kane was Star Wars before Star Wars. It marks a before and after, and change everything about the standards of filmmaking as art. It might be one of the most referenced films in all of western pop culture alongside Casablanca, Godfather, and Star Wars.

Bob Steger

For more background about the writing of this film, please check out Mank (2000) with Gary Oldman, who plays Herman Mankiewicz. Mank wrote the script for Orsen Welles, but had to fight to get writing credit. Very good movie and gives you an idea of how screenwriters were regarded at the time and what it means to pick a fight with such a powerful person like William Randolph Haerst.