'Scene Analysis from Citizen Kane'

' oft regarded as the superlative film of all time make, because of the use of cinematography, tale structure and harmony etc. that was in advance(p) of the time it was made in, Citizen Kane (Orson Welles 1941) is a film á clef that peers into the vicissitudes in the liveness of a newspaper tycoon, Charles nurse Kane, by means of the accounts of the nation in his manners that was close to him in order to cultivate the mystery of his death word, Rosebud. The epoch that go forth be analysed is the period where in Xanadus butlers account of when he heard Rosebud, Susan Alexander, Kanes second wife, leaves him for good, direct him into a equip of rage which results in his silent departure. This analytic thinking will break unconnected apart the sequence and put it plump for together again to extract the principal(prenominal) themes that arise from it.\nIn the crack persuasion of this sequence, the dissolve from the proscribedside view of the sidereal day takes us to a large K, accompanied by dramatic non diegetic medical specialty. The interpolate in euphony completely interrupts the compose emphatic music that was playing beforehand it, which foreshadows a dramatic view later(prenominal) on in the sequence. The K imposes itself on us; closely looming over us like Kane does to Susan in the previous reciprocating saw sequence. This reinforces his overbearing, self-centred and egotistical nature that has increase with his age, and that Susan has had enough of.\nThe front word verbalised after this opening is Rosebud, and as the photographic camera cuts to Mr Thompson and his interviewee, the unaffixed substructure them shining in by the windows illuminates the staircase. This light symbolises Mr Thompsons pastime to find the inwardness of Rosebud, as he is literally remove light on Kanes life by peeking through it. This is similar to the scene where Mr Rawlston told Mr Thompson to find out what Rosebud meant, where the room was shrouded in darkness apart from the light be adrift in through the windows. That symbolised the mysteriousness of Kanes life... '