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Excuse me, I was extremely sick while I was watching this movie and I couldn't pay as much attention as I usually could.

So anyways, how do I feel it is innovative? Most people say it is for the shots, which, definably it is. For a B&W film, it's absolutely beautiful. Everything is so craft fully filmed. The moving shots going up and down, just everything is beyond words for the shooting. It's the work on genius on it's shots, it planted the ultimate apple tree seed for the farmers of tomorrow to eat from and plant more seeds. See my symbolism?

And that's another way I think this was extremely innovative, symbolism. This was obviously done before, some of the all time greatest and favorite films before this were King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, Werewolf of London, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame (you can see I love horror movies of that time,) but all those wonderful titles of which I have not reviewed on this site all show symoblism in something of fantasy. A giant gorilla, a vampire, a zombie mummy, a werewolf, a shape shifter, a phantom, some of them were real but are outcasts, and thus were not seen very much at the time. Citizen Kane however, delivers the symbolism in a factor of the human perspective. There's also much more of it, in Frankenstein, the whole plot is one point of symbolism, however, this carries out like a book with multiple symbols in addition to that type. I haven't really explained it have I? You would haft to see it for yourself, which I highly recommend.

The scripting is very awesome. The idea of doing something, again, so familiar to us, is pure genius. Making it work so well. They didn't just flat out go flat, like some people these days do. But, they really did put the candy on the apple. They were also aware to make sure the candy stayed on the apple and not become it's own candy but to stay with the apple. Am I still symbolic or am I just a maniac? Oh, I haven't even talked about the greatest of things. It's done between two stories, the story of Charles Foster Kane is told through stories from his friends, and a newsreel. At the same time, we try to find out what his dying words "Rosebud" mean in the time after his death. So, they tell two stories at once. You pick any masterpiece from well, anytime but especially that time, you will probably not find that innovation. And you never really find out what Rosebud means until the end of the movie, and then, it's still done extremely symbolic and discreet.

So, this is extremely innovative. Probably one of the top 10 innovative movies of all time. I'd say, a collection of opinions would say that these movies are the top greatest not in a specific order. Citizen Kane, King Kong (1933), Transformers (1986), Jason and the Argonauts, Casablanca, Cloverfield, Alien, Godzilla (1954) and Frankenstein (1931).

So what is the rating? As an innovative picture and part of history, it by far deserves a 6/5. However, past the innovation, to an naive view, I'd say 4/5. Take it up to 5/5 between the two. I, Da Ca$hman signing off.

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Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) Feature

• A fascinating story of idealism corrupted by wealth, Citizen Kane is frequently named the greatest film of all time and is credited with inspiring more directorial careers than any other film in history. Orsen Welles and Agnes Moorehead star.Running Time: 119 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG Age: 053939656527 UPC: 053939656527 Manufacturer No: T6

Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) Overview

The story of an immensely wealthy newspaper publisher, as he is remembered by his friends and former wife after his death. Loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Frequently called the greatest film of all time.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: WELLES/COTTEN/COMINGORE/MOOREH
Title: CITIZEN KANE
Street Release Date: 09/24/2002
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Genre: DRAMA

Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) Specifications

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness. As Kane, Welles even ushers in the influence of Bertolt Brecht on film acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind work, and in many ways is still the most modern of modern films from the 20th century. --Tom Keogh

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Almost Lives Up... - Marie J. -
Whenever people start proclaiming something 'the greatest ever', I always get a bit wary. One, because hype is usually, well, based on hype and not fact, and it eventually becomes self-sustaining (ie people jump on the bandwagon of acclaiming something, just because they feel all the 'critics' have done so). Two, because even if it isn't overblown too much, I am usually disappointed when I had my hopes in the sky.

'Citizen Kane', well, I think it's hard to make its case as the greatest movie ever made, but it *is* Damn good. Do yourself a favor, and don't just watch it once, pass judgment, and reference it to your friends every once and a while just so you can feel Cultured. Actually THINK about this movie. ^-^ I promise you it's worth your time. I watched the documentary about it, read various reviews/essays about it, then re-watched it...only then did its scope truly sink in. "Gee," I can hear you saying. "Shouldn't something truly Great strike you the first instant you see it?" Yes, I agree, but truly great things also require digestion. This movie is Good upon first viewing, and becomes Great when you give it the time it deserves.

Quite apart from the movie, the story behind how it was made was also larger than life. Do yourself another favor, and read up about the Orson Welles - William Rudolph Hearst clash. It's Fascinating, and sheds another layer of light on this fantastic film.

My only negative comment as that the DVD skipped a little (straight out of the box!). Apart from that, Highly recommended.



MY CITIZEN KANE EXPERIENCE - Will Munney -
Here's my review of Citizen Kane:

When I was in high school, I had an English teacher who was tenured and never missed an opportunity to take advantage of her days off, which were often. Whenever she did so, her lesson plan instructions to her substitutes were simple and clear - she would merely leave a movie for the sub to pop into the vcr, and we would sit for an hour and watch.

Trouble was, even if it were a movie that we'd get into, she'd invariably come back the next day, and so we only ever watched the first hour of all these movies, unless we went and sniffed them out on our own dime. So in a sense, it was worse to enjoy the movie than not.

She'd always give us the heads-up as to when she would be taking the following day off, and also inform us which movie she'd be leaving for us to watch. One such day, she told us it'd be Citizen Kane.

I've always been somewhat of a prankster. Not on the professional level or anything, like a Bin Laden. More of a leisurely hotfooter. So I formulated my own lesson plan, and the next day I snuck in my own movie, which was The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell. A friend of mine was in on it, and while he looked out, I switched the movies in the vcr.

The substitute told us we were going to watch Citizen Kane, and out went the lights and on came the movie, which, as you have been informed, was not Citizen Kane.

So here's the thing: I thought for sure that as soon as the sub realized it was the wrong movie, he'd put the brakes on it, and then I'd `fess up to the gag, everyone would have a good laugh, and then the real movie would be cued up, and that would be the end of it. But on this day, this particular sub was apparently stupider than a lot of people, because all he did was say, "Oh - I guess it's not Citizen Kane today. I guess it's The Hitcher." And the whole class sat rapt and watched a movie they could truly get behind for once. Even when the finger turned up in the french fries, this sub just didn't understand how the forces of the universe were barking at him to wake up.

Well, it was a good gag, a solid gag, and when it was over, I thought it would stay over. But then, a few classes later in the day, the vice principal and a couple of other people I'd never seen before stormed into my class, spotted me and dragged me out of the class for a chat. It seems someone in that English class spilled the beans. In the vp's office, he talked at me while the unrecognized people simply stood there, wordlessly taking it all in. And he didn't ever ask why I did it. He just seemed intent on learning how I did it.

He suspended me for the next day, almost as an afterthought. We never saw that sub again, and from then on, whenever the English teacher took a day off, there would always be a more substantial and engaging lesson plan in place in her absense, which she would have to address upon her return, and which seemed a terrible inconvenience to her.

When I got home that day, my dad was cleaning the swimming pool. I told him I had been suspended. He asked what for, and I told him. "Oh" is what he said. Then he continued cleaning the swimming pool, which I swam in the next day, which, as I have explained, was a day off.




great storytelling !........bad scull cap appliances - Beatrice A. Lafave - so falls wichita falls
nothing i could possibly add but my vote in most instances . especially here . intro by TCM's Robert Ozborne (always a pleasure) and closed captions on this vhs . aspect ratio is the same weather vhs or dvd so i sprung for the small potatos . this probably marks about my 5th viewing . i wish the make up department had spent a bit more time on Mr. Welle's prosthetics . oh well . a true "must see" for curious young people with a passion for film .



INDEED one of the greatest and most famous movies ever made!!!! - Matt Tawesson - Macomb, IL, USA
I bought this for my mom's birthday this year. I started watching it almost immediately, and liked it right away. This is truly a great movie. Orson Welles shines in the title role (and also directed this film), and this is a movie that he will always be identified with. The acting is superb and is wonderfully restored from the highest quality surviving elements. The movie starts out with a newsreel. The second disc contains a documentary titled The Battle over Citizen Kane, and that is definitely worth a look as well. Two thumbs up....WAY UP to Mr. Welles and the rest of the cast as well.

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