Thursday, October 4, 2007


"Citizen Cane", by Orson Wells has many good things and some bad things about the movie. Two aspects that I think really contributed to this famous movie is the mise-en-scene and the cinematography used by Wells. One particular shot that has stuck in my head since we finished waching the movie, was when Kane is standing over Susan like he owns her. The lighting could have told the story by itself. It was low key lighting when had Kane in the light and Susan in a shadow making the viewer think that Kane has all the power and Susan is hopeless. Another big shot I liked was at the end when Wells uses tracking to go over all of Kane's posessions. It shows the reader how materialistic Kane was and wanted everything even though it did nothing for him in the end. It shows the viewer all the things he has from his life, some valuable and some not. The tracking ends on the picture of his sled as a child that he misses. It raps up the whole story and it brings the movie to an end. It's at the end of the tracking shot, and it tightens up all the loose ends. Those are two major contributions to why I enjoyed this movie and still think about it now.

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