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Citizen Kane (1941) is a movie about the life of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) told through the eyes and stories of close friends and distant ones. We never see Kane's life through the eyes of Kane. We watch as reporter, Thompson investigates the meaning of Kane's last word; Rosebud. "What does it mean?"Citizen Kane follows a plot that does not run chronologically from the start of Kane's life to the end of his life, but rather bounces around his personal timeline told from one person to the next, much like the movie, Memento (2000). Rather than telling the whole life story of a man from beginning to end, we follow Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) as he tracks down the man responsible for the murder of his wife. Through a unique use of filming color camerawork to black and white camerawork. The editing sequence follows as such: the end is at the beginning to minutes before the next scene. If one is confused already, one must watch this film. As we start to pick apart the elements and styles of Citizen Kane we start the film with a look at Xanadu (Kane's mansion). All through the credits we see different angles of this mansion, but if we are to focus on the little bedroom light in the top right corner, we notice that the lig
Although, Citizen Kane uses a number of cinematography elements and styles to tell the story of the films main character, Memento uses its continual black and white to color to black and white element or style. We start this film with a shaking a Polaroid. As we soon notice, we notice that we are watching the film backwards, as the picture dilutes, and we see Teddy (Joe Pantilano) get shot in the back of the head by Shelby. After we back up far enough, we see a quick camera movement as Teddy dies now going frontward. In the concluding, sequence, we watch as Thompson meets up with fellow reporters to explain how and why he never found what 'Rosebud' was. We watch the men leave, and we follow a crane propelled camera through Kane's enormous collection of statues, till we as viewers find out what 'Rosebud' is or means.
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