Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Essay

" You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. "- James Allen

had acquired a lot of cultural groundings at home with his mother and the doctor.

The statue of Hatshepsut seated down is made with the material limestone. This limestone is lightly colored, which created a larger contrast with the other statues nearby. Her face was carved bringing out her eyes, eyebrows and other facial features. Her eyebrows also come slightly together towards the middle. Her lips forming a slight archaic smile. The dimensions are larger than an average female size. The statue is of great size, yet still in proportion. The body and head fit well with each other overall. However, it is greatly exaggerated in size.

When I was told to choose a movie to perform a psychoanalysis on a character. I did not know what movie to choose. After watching the two hour long film on the multiple characters that seemed to be struggling to find their inner happiness: American Beauty. I knew that I should not look any further. One character that especially stood out was, Lester Burnham. A forty-two year old father with a mid-life crisis. In the film, American Beauty Lester Burnham is portrayed as an ordinary man, with a perfect life, but of course that is far from the truth. From the outside, Lester seems to have a perfect salary, and a perfect family who lives in a perfect neighborhood. In reality, things are not

Throughout the early 1950's, the nation was deeply engrossed in fears of a Communist takeover. At a time when America's fears were at their very height, Joseph McCarthy, a Republican Senator from Wisconsin pushed America's fears to an extreme. As a ploy to get himself re-elected, and to make America hate Communism as much as he did, the Senator devised a devious scheme. McCarthy, while giving a speech, held up a piece of paper and exclaimed, "I have here a list of 57 known Communists who are currently employed by the U.S. State Department" (Fried, 89). A few days later, McCarthy raised the number of people on the list from 57 to 205. The reaction to McCarthy's announcement was absolute panic. Until that time, the

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Hitchcock’s 1946 Notorious takes place in the morally ambiguous world of post-World War II where the questioning of alliances and moralities have reached a breaking point. Alicia, the daughter of an incarcerated Nazi supporter, finds herself in the midst of a purgatory world stuck in between love and hate, in other words one of ambivalence. When she is asked to travel to South America to become close to one of her father’s German contacts so that the American Government may gain valuable information about their upcoming plans she readily accepts in an effort to escape her destructive tendencies. This state of ambivalence as discussed in Philips “Against Self-Criticism” entails conflicting feelings of hatred and love for the same individual lead to a world of uncertainty or irrationality, the death drive, where the lines of morality only continue to be blurred as illustrated by Alicia, Sebastian her father’s contact whom she has wed in order to gain information, his mother, and Devlin the American Agent whom she has fallen in love with. In other words, intoxication amidst ambivalence leads to the death drive which is the driving force of the storyline aimed to showcase the extremes of this desire of self-destruction reinforced by destroying the ones who they show ambivalence towards. This drive shown in Laplanche and Pontalis’ “The Language of Psych-Analysis” is the desire for self-destruction

The United States of America is the most powerful and wealthy country in the world. The varieties of class, individuality, religion, and race are a few of the enrichments within the "melting pot" of our society. The blend of these numerous diversities is the crucial ingredient to our modern nation. Even though America has been formed upon these diversities, its inhabitants- the "average American"- have a single thing in common; a single idea; a single goal; the American Dream. The Dream consists of a seemingly simple concept; success. Americans dream of a successful marriage, family, successful job, and own a Victorian-style home with a white picket fence and an oak tree with a swing tire in the front yard. The

The film Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, is a great example of how a man can be corrupted by wealth. Through the characters in the film we can observe how Charles Foster Kane, an idealistic man with principles, can be changed and misguided by wealth and what accompanies wealth. The film takes places during the late 19th century and early 20th century, a time in American history when the world is changing and wealth is a great power to change it with. Through the story telling of Kane’s life we are able to see how wealth changes, not only Kane’s ideals, but his actions and how he perceives the world.

A well-known film that had top ratings and many awards globally, called Citizen Kane, was released in September of 1941 in theatres across the United States. Orsen Welles played a significant part in the film. Welles was the producer, director, and star of Citizen Kane. Orsen Welles helped to describe the American Dream by using literary devices and symbols throughout the film. When American’s think about the American Dream, many relate to one another on their views, which is to live a successful and happy lifestyle. Few Americans might have some exceptions to the others, but success and happiness is the general idea of the American Dream. Citizen Kane on the other hand, understands that the “dream” is not as simple as everyone thinks it is. Orsen Welles presents the American Dream as a successful and enjoyable

The statue, which measures about 11.1 centimeters in length, is now in a muse. It was carved from a fine porous limestone not found in the region and so must have been brought to the area from another location. It must have travelled a great distance before hibernating for centuries.

I believe that in I Confess, the first four minutes is not only the most important, but it also relates back to the rest of the film perfectly. In the beginning of I Confess the audience is shown several shots of the beautiful povince of Quebec to emphasize the location and then we see a murder and a confession occur in the same night. In this essay, I 'm going to be analyzing the mise-en-scene, cinematography, and sound of the cinematic masterpiece I Confess by Alfred Hitchcock.

The scene we’re analyzing starts off with a shot of the New York Daily Inquirer. It’s a close shot, taking up the entire screen. I feel this close up is to show the viewer that the newspaper company is going to be the primary focal point for Kane, and his two partners at this point in the film. After the close up, the camera pans down to show Kane and Leland sitting in a car looking up at the building. Kane says “Take a good look at it Jedidiah, it’s going to look a lot different one of these days.” Despite the look on Kane’s face being one of optimism and promise, this statement gives leeway to all of the bad things to follow. Kane specifically says, “look a lot different” as opposed to anything else (i.e.

Citizen Kane is one of the world's most famous and highly-rated classic film masterpiece. Although it was not a commercial success at the time of its release it has always been praised by film critics. The film had a budget of $800,000 and was directed, produced, as well as acted by the twenty five year old Orson Wells. Wells used innovative and unique cinematic techniques in Citizen Kane that would influence the film making for all eternity.

This film was directed by Benjamin Ross in 1999. The film is about a movie that was released about sixty years before this production. It is odd to me that in those sixty years, no one had chosen to create this film until Ross thought about it. It is weird to see a movie about another movie. It is obvious that a recreation is never the same than the original work, but I feel like this movie truly demonstrated some of the aspects and difficulties that Orson Welles experienced for his film, “Citizen Kane.”