Scene Analysis from Citizen Kane

Often regarded as the greatest film ever made, beca aim of the use of cinematography, narrative structure and melody etc. that was innovative of the meter it was made in, Citizen Kane (Orson Welles 1941) is a film á clef that peers into the vicissitudes in the manner of a newspaper tycoon, Charles boost Kane, through the accounts of the people in his life that was close to him in order to solve the riddle of his dying news show, Rosebud. The sequence that result be analysed is the sequence where in Xanadus butlers account of when he perceive Rosebud, Susan Alexander, Kanes second wife, leaves him for good, move him into a fit of wrath which results in his silent departure. This depth psychology will pick by the sequence and put it grit together again to remove the main themes that arise from it.\nIn the spread paroxysm of this sequence, the disregard from the exterior view of the twenty-four hour period takes us to a prodigious K, accompanied by salient non dieget ic music. The change in music completely interrupts the stabilise emphatic music that was play before it, which foreshadows a dramatic scene later on in the sequence. The K imposes itself on us; almost looming everyplace us like Kane does to Susan in the previous jigsaw sequence. This reinforces his overbearing, self-involved and narcissistic nature that has increase with his age, and that Susan has had enough of.\nThe first word uttered after this opening is Rosebud, and as the camera cuts to Mr Thompson and his interviewee, the conflagrate behind them shining in through the windows illuminates the staircase. This light symbolises Mr Thompsons quest to find the import of Rosebud, as he is literally shedding light on Kanes life by peeking through it. This is similar to the scene where Mr Rawlston told Mr Thompson to find out what Rosebud meant, where the inhabit was shrouded in darkness away from the light streaming in through the windows. That symbolised the mysteriousness of Kanes life...