Citizen Kane

1) Citizen Kane is 1941 American drama film directed and starred by Orson Welles. The film was nominated for nine Oscar awards and received one for having the "Best Original Screenplay" and received much praise for its cinematography. It was considered the best film of all time according to the American Film Institute. When Orson directed this film, he was 24 years old and had little experience in how to make movies. RKO Radio Pictures gave Welles full responsibility of the film: casting, producing, script writing, and directing. Welles even took on the role as the main character, Charles Foster Kane, in his young years to his more elderly years.

2)TNR Film Classics: http://www.tnr.com/article/82330/tnr-film-classics-citizen-kane-february-24-1941 

The article discussed that Orson Welles's portrayal of Charles Foster Kane was an almost exact replication of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was also a powerful newspaper publisher and journalist and experienced almost the same problems in his life. He was not thrilled with the turn out of Citizen Kane and wanted some of the material to be censored because it showed what seemed to be a negative portrayal of him. RKO, the studio company, still decided to show the film and played it in the most popular movie hall. After years of scrutiny, 71 years, William Heart finally accepted the film and saw that gained so much popularity.

3) The article relates to the film because Charles Foster Kane was such a motivated newspaper publisher and took his business and the issues at hand seriously. When Citizen Kane was in the process of being filmed and then put into theatres, Hearst took action to call out Welles. Being that Hearst was such a huge newspaper publisher, Hollywood was terrified at the thought of what Hearst would say in his newspaper.

4)The fact that Citizen Kane received the title of "the best American film of all time" is a surprising statement. Though the film had strong hidden messages, it was shocking for it to receive that review. The most enjoyable and suspenseful part of the film was that when Charles Kane died and his final words were "Rosebud", everyone thought he was talking about a woman, when in fact he was talking about his sled. His sled was a representation of his childhood, something that he really didnt get to have or enjoy, and for those to be his last words showed it was stripped away from him.