KANE'S LOST CHILDHOOD
Citizen Kane is one of the most famous movies ever made. The movie tells the
story of a child who inherited a fortune and was then taken away from his
surroundings and his parents to be raised by a banker by the name of Mr. Thatcher.
Kane becomes a very wealthy newspaper tycoon who holds on to material things to
make up for his loss of a childhood and lack of love from his mother. Kane may
have been a success as a publisher, but was a failure at life. The movie is mostly told
in flashbacks as police investigators track down people who knew Kane and try to
find out the meaning of his final word.
The movie opens up with the scene of a mansion, his mansion, Xanadu. This is
the enormous estate, off the coast of Florida, that Charles Foster Kane, one of the
world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who dies whispering the word
"Rosebud", built and filled with a large private zoo of exotic animals, a lake, a golf
course, and a tremendous amount of statues and art.
English:
KANE MORGAN
A deep focus shot: everything, including the hat i...It was like one big giant
playground, every child's dream. It was as if he was trying to hold on to his
childhood. He did many other things all throughout his lifetime that portrayed how
he grasped on to his childhood. Kane used money to buy things he never had as a
child, such as Xanadu and all of it's pristine objects. He decided to run a newspaper
because he thought "it would be fun". To say that is almost childlike and doesn't
sound like a very mature thought process. This also demonstrates how he missed the
fun times before he was taken away from his mother.
In the beginning of the movie...