Citizen Kane ( Orson Welles )

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"The cinematic world invites---even requires---concept-ualization. The images presented to us, their arrangement and juxtapositioning, are narrational blue prints for a fiction that must be constructed by the viewer's narrativity." This essay will discuss this quotation in relationship to Citizen Kane.
Orson Welles and co-writer, Herman J. Mankiewiez, created
a complexly structured story. Welles invites the viewer to
piece together the various segments of Kane's life rather like
the jigsaw puzzles that Kane's second wife, Susan, plays with
in Kane's castle. The film begins outside the castle, Xanadu,
at the "No Trespassing" sign, then moves through the dark eerie night to the castle, then on into the bedroom. The camera moves slowly toward the bed, where an ugly old man lies dying, Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles). The camera moves in to hear the man's(...)"

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