Senior Citizens Essay

“The Unknown Citizen”      “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden, is a commentary on government and the materialism of modern man. The poem is written in the form of an obituary inscribed on a monument built by the government in commemoration of an average, upstanding, and decent community member. Throughout the passage, the speaker lists facts about the citizen’s life which he believes prove that the deceased was a valuable person. In actuality these facts represent nothing more than the socially

Rosebud in Citizen Kane Rosebud is sled, Kane's sled when he was a boy. Rosebud is the foundation of the film of citizen Kane. Rosebud is also Kane's last words. He was a very important man, known globally. Rosebud is the word everyone wants to understand the meaning of, so there is a hunt to find the meaning of the word. This sets the story for the film. Rosebud is a symbol of Kane, in that Rosebud represents his loss of the ability to love and how to love. The film

reach his personal aims. A drama brought to the world by renowned writer-turned-producer-turned-director Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941) was created by a team of visionaries, including producer George Schaefer, cinematographer Gregg Toland, and composer Bernard Herrmann. Made by no fewer than five screenwriters, Citizen Kane is an iconic film that stands the test of the time. Citizen Kane is the best film of all time as it features a gripping storyline, meaningful lighting and props in mise-en-scene

Citizen Kane is a movie that can be rewritten and implemented into any film created today. In many ways, the storyline tells us more about ourselves than anything else and it relates to each one of us who has ever wished for a blah blah life. From his flamboyant adventures to the blah blah to his political agenda in his later years. Every film that came after Citizen Kane owes a great deal to Orson Welles because of the way he used music, shadows and lighting, and special effects, which without

Sad Man Citizen Kane is a movie that can be rewritten and implemented into any film created today. In many ways, the storyline tells us more about ourselves than anything else and it relates to each one of us who has ever wished for a better life. From his flamboyant adventures to the blah blah to his political agenda in his later years. Every film that came after Citizen Kane owes a great deal to Orson Welles because of the way he used special effects, music, and shadows and lighting, which without

The movie Citizen Kane targets an audience that in my opinion has to have an appreciation for film. Someone who is studying film or has a passion for it will know exactly what he or she is watching. Though, I am in a film class my taste buds haven’t truly developed. I didn’t understand the true nature in which it was shot nor did I understand the plot very well. Disliking the movie was difficult due to the fact I was trying admittedly hard to understand Gregg Tolland and the concept of the film.

Undeniably, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and its film adaptation, which is set in the 1920’s and follows the storyline of the narrator Nick Carraway after he moves to West Egg on Long Island, were both great successes, with the book becoming widely recognized as an American classic, and the film making a worldwide gross of about $351 million and winning two Oscars. Although the movie is a satisfactory adaption with a lot of the plot being similar, there are still some minor and major

In most films, the director choses a specific setting to help contextualize the time and place that the film is taking place. In some films, however, the director purposely chooses background elements that are significant to the plot as they convey tone, emotion, and ideas. In the films Six Degrees of Separation (1933), Devil in a Blue Dress (1955), and The Human Stain (2003), the director of each films chooses to incorporate historical subplots into the background of each film. The historical subplots

pattern of events and characters that appears in most movies, books, tv shows, etc. In this pattern, the hero leaves her/his mundane world, plunges into the unknown, undergoes test and trials, and returns with new knowledge and power. In the movie Citizen Kane, a rich man and a reporter covering the story after his death learns the power and problems with money and greediness. The movie starts with him being given away from his mother, the only truly happy place he would know. A very rich banker

Many of the lines in Casablanca have been quoted so often that the film at times seems like a parody of itself. How can you as a viewer get past these seeming clichés and experience the film with fresh eyes and ears? Is it possible for the film to affect us today as powerfully as it did its original audiences? Why or why not? No one expected this movie to be such a classic, and even though it won multiple major awards, it only gained its place as a classic slowly over the years. I think to truly