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Citizen Kane: Room Trashing Essay

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Stephanie Bittar
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Citizen Kane – Room Trashing A well-known scene in Citizen Kane is when Susan leaves Kane, and Kane ends up destroying Susan’s room. As Kane realizes Susan is leaving him, he loses control of himself as he understands that he lost some sort of aspect in his life. There were three instances where Kane used violence: as child when he attacks Thatcher with his sled, verbally attacks Jim, and now as Susan leaves him he lashes out his anger in her bedroom. Orson Welles brings this scene to life with rage and anger as he uses the different stylistic components as he tells the story. These components consist of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound which help the audience to become more emotionally and visually attached to the scene. The setting of the scene takes place in Susan’s bedroom, it is as realistic as Welles made it to be. It was a bedroom filled with home items, goods, and memories. Kane is in suit, it made him sophisticated. The workers in the house are all dressed in corresponding colors to one another. The black and white film is color coded, everything blends and contrast with one another. His movement are filled with …show more content…

The camera movement was minimal, which allowed the audience to observe and analyze as to what is going on. One can say there was a use of multiple camera as different shots were used in the scene. Moreover, the position of the camera portrays the mood of the scene. The low angle emphasized Kane’s power and rage throughout the scene. There was a use of continuity editing which created the narrative information to be smooth and concise. Scenes were broken up into multiple shots where the shots were continuous. With the use of deep focus, there was a use of more intense lighting to allow the audience to observe Kane’s surrounding. It reoccurs throughout the scene to express shows the distance between the

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