Movie, Citizen Kane?!
Question: Movie, Citizen Kane!?
For year 12, im doing a critical study of Orson Well’s Citizen Kane!. I really enjoyed the film!. For an assignment i have to bassically argue why this film should remain as a critical study, againts the notion that it 'is not relevant to today's society'!.
!.!.I would love to structure a response if i knew why it would be even considered irrelevant!. I mean its not like it's shakespeare!.!. so i could argue barriers of language ect!.
Could anybody help me, please!
Just some points on why it is relevant!.!. (of coruse im planning to state how it influenced modern cinema, and how its important in our understanding of the modern evolution of cinema technically and somtimes artistically!.!.) But what else!?
How do i mention importance of conext!.!. without making all its brilliance rely within the refference of the 40's!?
Obviously im confused!. Please help, its urgent and im in dire need!!
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!.!.I would love to structure a response if i knew why it would be even considered irrelevant!. I mean its not like it's shakespeare!.!. so i could argue barriers of language ect!.
Could anybody help me, please!
Just some points on why it is relevant!.!. (of coruse im planning to state how it influenced modern cinema, and how its important in our understanding of the modern evolution of cinema technically and somtimes artistically!.!.) But what else!?
How do i mention importance of conext!.!. without making all its brilliance rely within the refference of the 40's!?
Obviously im confused!. Please help, its urgent and im in dire need!!
Thank you so very much!!!!!!!!!! I really appreciate it!!!Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
well, it DOES parrallel with today's society cos of the talk of yellow journalism!. (low quality journalism like all the papparazzi dishes out today) cos this is supposed to be a fictional acct of William Randolph Hearst (although there have been 2 other pictures that were fictional about him as well; one insinuating that he actually murdered someone and had to pay off all the people who were witnesses) and some other people say the movie Citizen Kane wasn't about William Heart at ALL -but about Howard Hughes!. I can definitely see the reason why people would think that!. Both were ambitious, both wanted to make pictures, yet Hearst was much more into writing papers than Hughes-hughes thing was movies and aircraft-but both were pretty eccentric!. And ofcourse the start of the Hearst papers was first just yellow journalism stuff until he started on the big newspapers!. But at first it was the kind of crap you see in the national enquirer which some people like to dub the national intruder!. And everyone has a past they want to bury-esp!. if they became this rich man who became miserable but didn't know why he was miserable!. He was miserable because he could never be happy as a rich man-the only time he had ever been happy was as a child with his mother-and then we throw in all the freudian oedipal melodrama don't u see!? He could never get over his mother's death!. And he never really understood that this is why he was unhappy!. Money does not make us!. Not back in the 40's and neither does it today!. So, whether we are talking about yellow journalism in the 40's or yellow journalism in the 21st century; or whether we're talking about rich vs!. poor and who is the happier; or whether we are talking about someone who has an oedipal complex today or someone who had one in the 40's, or whether we are talking about the exploits of Howard Hughes or the exploits of William Randolph Hearst; or whether we are talking about people who are constantly trying to buy people to talk or to keep quiet (yet they never revealed that he murdered that guy in the movie Citizen Kane); there are definite parallels to the movie Citizen Kane with the society we are living in today in the 21st century!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
An aspect of this film which never goes out of relevance is seeing a man's life from the viewpoints of people who knew him, each seeing a different part of that person's story, a different side of the face that that person presented to the world, as opposed to that person's view of themselves!.
Where does the truth of Kane's story lie!? We are given lots of choices, all true to some extent, but even in their totality we are left with the enigma of Kane's (or anyone's) meaning in the world!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Where does the truth of Kane's story lie!? We are given lots of choices, all true to some extent, but even in their totality we are left with the enigma of Kane's (or anyone's) meaning in the world!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Well what could replace it!?
'gladiator'!? forest gump!? saving private ryan!?
you could go for this kind of argument - is there a film better suited in these days - this is as far as relevance
context - well there is rupert murdoch with his young wife (rosebud!?)
there are messages that are always relevant - knowing that Welles was only 27 when he made it gives it 'freshness'Www@Enter-QA@Com
'gladiator'!? forest gump!? saving private ryan!?
you could go for this kind of argument - is there a film better suited in these days - this is as far as relevance
context - well there is rupert murdoch with his young wife (rosebud!?)
there are messages that are always relevant - knowing that Welles was only 27 when he made it gives it 'freshness'Www@Enter-QA@Com