Charles Foster Kane, who was he really? By Thompson ... (1941) Charles Kane was a man that some of us hated or some us loved. He was a mysterious man, we know nothing of him, however we have heard of him. From friends, family, or especially in the newspaper, but who was he really? Charles Foster Kane died from mysterious causes, however his last dying word was, “Rosebud”. I interviewed different individuals who were affiliated with Charles Foster Kane to find out what this word meant. However, I was stumped in my investigation of the word, until I rummaged around at Charles Kane palace and found an antique of his. It was a sled that had the word Rosebud printed on it, I made the conclusion this was what Mr. Kane was referring too. However, what does it have to do with him, and how does it relate to him in any specific way? I dove deeper into the rabbit hole, and tried to see how far it went. After talking with a colleague of Mr. Kane, I was led to a man named Mr. Thatcher. He was an old mentor of Mr. Kane’s, whose objective was to prepare Mr. Kane to lead the company that his parents owned. I asked my Mr. Thatcher, “What was so significant about Mr. Kane’s ‘Rosebud’ sled”. Mr. Thatcher told me that, Mr. Kane, as a child used to sled on the hills of his old home in Colorado during the winter. He …show more content…
I believe Charles Kane was a misunderstood man and the only way to understand him was from the outside. For one, he was taken from his parents at a young age, to run a business that he never wanted to do. Which was why he felt he needed to destroy, “Public Transits”, to destroy the thing he hated the most. Charles Kane, also bought Xanadu, and the statues, and other materialistic items. He wanted to feel something, something he could attach to in his own way. However, I believe he never did, and died feeling melancholy and desperate, something no one would like to
Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3,1904, in Washington, D.C. Charles Richard Drew was an African American surgeon who developed a way to store blood plasma for transfusion and coordinated the first substantial blood in the United States. He conducted the blood plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain during World War 2. Charles resigned, knowing that the blood of the African Americans would be separated. He died on April 1,1950.
From the moment the film starts it is clear from the "No Trespassing" sign that the director is taking us somewhere we are not welcome. The close ups of the chain link fence and the iron gates are further evidence of the inaccessibility of the castle in the distance. The images of the emptiness in the gondolas and a decaying golf course suggest that this place was built by someone of wealth. Then we are introduced to a single word “Rosebud” having just tuned into the movie I had no clue what the word means. From there we are thrown into an ocean drowning down memory lane the moment we are introduce to Charles Kane, it’s always from someone else perspective that gives us a distorted view of this man.
Orson Welles wrote this film with lots of similarities of Charles Kane with William Hearst. William Hearst was a newspaper giant like Kane. That’s just the main similarity, but there are lots of other details that Kane and Hearst share together. “Citizen Kane” is know to be
African American abolitionist William Howard Day was born October 16, 1825 in New York City. William was raised by his mother, Eliza and father John. Day mother Eliza was a founding member of the first AME Zion church and an abolitionist. Day father was a sail maker who fought in the War of 1812 and in Algiers, in 1815, and died when William was four. As a child William mother gave him away to a white ink manufacturer who advocated the abolitionist and temperance movement.
and he attempts to do this by isolating himself from everyone and focusing on his goal. Money is the reason why both Gatsby and Charles Kane died without developing a long lasting relationship with anyone. Isolation is an obvious theme in the film Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles. The movie is essentially the telling of Charles Foster Kane’s life story told in different perspectives through different parts of his life. The theme of isolation is everywhere throughout the movie especially in the first scene of Charles Kane’s childhood where he is playing by himself in the snow.
Have you ever wondered if your beliefs are your own, or if you have been indoctrinated by your parents? Just like some parents make their children go to church every Sunday, John Brown’s parents raised him to have a strong hatred of slavery. Sometimes indoctrination is positive. John Brown was an abolitionist who believe, unlike many other, that slavery was evil. John brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut.
Chronological: Bob Kane I have a secret to tell you. I’m not real. I’m the brainchild of one of the comic book greats, which I suppose makes him my brainfather. No, that doesn’t sound right.
Then his life was flipped and he had to make some hard decisions, an he became very troubled. He walked around depressed and if suicide wasn't
The Film Citizen Kane was a groundbreaking film in the 1940’s, the way Orson Wells depicts his film with different lighting, cinematography, choice of camera shots and mise-en-scene throughout this movie truly showed the masterpiece that this film is. In the Film Citizen Kane, it was the first movie that went against true Hollywood cinema by introducing flashbacks throughout the movie to show us how Charles Foster Kane changes throughout the movie. Throughout this movie the audience can see how Charles Foster Kane undergoes a variety of physical and emotional changes from when he was just a young boy all the way until his unfortunate death. Power, that’s all that Kane wanted in the start of the film. In the beginning of the film Kane gets ownership of the struggling New York Daily Inquirer, Kane suggests that he wanted to use journalism to apply to the public and protect the interest of ordinary people.
Charles Foster Kane possessed everything that a materialistic man could dream to have: money, power, a successful career, women, and extravagant possessions some men would go to extremes lengths to have. Yet, Charles had it all. The most important ingredient of happiness in life Kane lacked however, was the single component he couldn 't buy and that was: love. "You won 't get lonely, Charles... You 'll be the richest man in the world someday."
There are many things that make “Citizen Kane” considered as possibly one of the greatest films every made; to the eyes of the passive audience this film may not seem the most amazing, most people being accustomed to the classical Hollywood style, but to the audience with an eye for the complex, “Citizen Kane” breaks the traditional Hollywood mold and forges its own path for the better. Exposition is one of the most key features of a film, it’s meant introduce important characters and give the audience relevant details and and dutifully suppress knowledge in turn. “Citizen Kane” does not follow this Classic Hollywood style exposition, instead going above and beyond to open the film with revealing as little information as possible and confuse/intrigue
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles is a cinematic classic, released in 1941. Citizen Kane challenged traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema. Kane was narrated by several people that include their take on Kane’s life. The story unfolds by many flashbacks and is told by different perspectives over the years through different narrations. Charles Foster Kane was a millionaire, head of newspapers and died saying “rosebud”.
This is when we find out that the news was screened in a room. Shadowed images are seen in the room. With what is said in the room we get to know that these men are very manipulative and want to know what is meant by Kane’s last word “Rosebud”. Sir Thompson is chosen to reveal to the audience the secrecy behind this word. If we were to view this very carefully, we see that Sir Thompson is indirectly the audience to whom all the facts about Kane is revealed to.