Analysis Of Citizen Kane

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In 1941, Orson Welles directed a movie that many now consider to be the best movie ever made. With eight wins and twelve other nominations, Citizen Kane stars Welles himself, playing newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, who was based on the real-life William Randolph Hearst. The story immediately begins with Kane’s death, and his last word sparks a wave of curiosity among journalists, leaving them to investigate the meaning of the mysterious “Rosebud.” During the film, the audience learns that Kane, although wealthy, was not necessarily happy; he had lost love and respect numerous times throughout his life, and each of those events forced him into a deeper state of isolation. On the other hand, 2010 movie The Social Network, directed by David

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Apart from this, it speaks to the culminating point of Orson Welles ' film making profession. For, in spite of the fact that Welles lived for over forty years taking after the arrival of Kane, he never succeeded in recovering the brightness or satisfying the guarantee of his first component. After his demise, the life of Charles Foster Kane - daily paper head honcho and all-round overwhelming American - is told from the point of view of the individuals who knew him. As Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a newspaper tycoon dies in his enormous and flamboyant mansion, he says his last word, “Rosebud”.

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