Citizen Kane
There are very many great scenes in the movie Citizen Kane to choose from, but the one scene that I enjoyed most was the first flash back of the movie where Kane is a young boy riding his sled in his first home in Colorado. The characters in this scene, besides young Charles Kane, are Mr. Thatcher, the banker, and Mr. And Mrs. Kane. The scene opens up in a wide shot of just white snow falling from the sky and the earth is covered by a blanket of snow. And in the distance is a young boy riding a sled down a small hill. The music in this 8 second shot is very light music created from a section of strings. It gives the scene a sense of a magical wintery/Christmasy feeling where the child enjoys playing in the snow. The scene is obviously lit very brightly showing that it is probably sometime in the middle of the day and the white snow is making everything look brighter. Just as the sled stops at the bottom of the hill, the child gets up, grabs a fist full of snow, and hurls the ball to the right of the camera. We don’t get to see what the snowball hits until the next shot. We find out, in the next shot that the snowball was aimed at a sign perched on top of a house. The sign reads MRS. KANE’S BOARDING HOUSE. This gives us a
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Approximate Word count = 1158
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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