screen report 5: citizen Kane

1.       Citizen Kane was brought to the screens in 1941 by Orson Welles. When Orson Welles made Citizen Kane, he was only 24 years old and it was the first movie he had ever made. If you know this bit of information before watching the movie, you can’t help but think throughout its entirety how unbelievably talented Orson Welles must be. Throughout Welles’s early childhood and teenage years, he studied organizing dramatic productions which could explain why at the ripe age of 24 he was able to make what is known to be the most notorious film known to man. 

2.       Although this film is considered the best of all time, critics still ask why? Citizen Kane is almost 75 years old and is still being watched every day by millions. In the world of film making, hearing the your film is “ the citizen kane of its genre” may be the biggest compliment ever received. Citizen Kane had an amazing team of artists to help create this masterpiece. Welles’s co-wrote, producued, starred and directed his first film ever. Even if this movie wasn’t absolutely brilliant, it would still have a special place in film making history because of its’ talented crew and actors.

 

( decentfilms.com/articles/citizenkane)

 

3.      Nowadays, it isn’t rare for one person to have many titles when it comes to film making. It is much more common that those people don’t want to have just one title and feel it is best if they have their say in many different aspects of the movie. But most of the time, these people cannot be 100% successful in every role they take on in the production of their film. This doesn’t apply to Orson Welles. Orson achieved greatness throughout every aspect of the movie he was apart of.

4.      Before watching Citizen Kane in class, it was my first time ever watching it. I was pleasantly impressed on how unbelievably structured the film was. Citizen Kane set the bar extremely high for films and is still doing so until this day. It is no surprise that it was named best movie of all time decades later in 1998. I would recommend Citizen Kane to absolutely anybody who has never seen it so they can watch an amazing piece of art in the film history world.