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This paper examines the classic movie "Citizen Kane," and describes how it was a movie that reflected the times in which it was produced. Although loosely molded on the life of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, "Citizen Kane" also offered much visual symbolism supporting the beliefs of the film's creator, Orson Welles. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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prodigy Orson Welles, who also co-wrote and directed the piece. The movie, which centered on the life of a wealthy newspaper and media owner, showed how the outward trappings of
success and money could hide a lonely and embittered heart inside. Yet "Citizen Kane" was much more than a simple story about a simple newspaperman who ended up becoming a
millionaire. Produced in 1941, yet re-released for wider distribution more than a decade later, "Citizen Kane" was a record of the times and disintegrating world in which Welles, and his
fictitious character, Charles Foster Kane, lived. The purpose of this paper is to define the times and era that Welles attempted to define through his work, and to outline the
influence and power of the media in suppressing distribution of the film. Citizen Kane and the plot The surface story in "Citizen
Kane" is the quest of a reporter to find out what the term "Rosebud," the last dying word from the lips of a newspaper mogul, means (Street 48). The reporter,
named Thompson, throughout the movie, is able to learn about the life of the mogul, Charles Foster Kane, through various interviews with those close to the dead man (portrayed as
flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, was separated from his mother (and subsequently lost his
fortune) also at a very young age, started a newspaper that became an influential media empire, attempted politics (and lost), attempted marriage (and lost two wives), and died alone and
unmourned in his mansion, which he called Xanadu (Street 48). Yet in a newsreel sequence near the beginning of the movie, announcing Kanes death, the audience sees a contradiction of
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