Citizen Kane: Charles Foster Kane - Who Was He? :: essays research papers

Citizen Kane Charles Foster Kane - Who Was He?     The story of Citizen Kane displace many people to the theatres since theywanted to find come on who this Kane fellow is or was. It is unarguably one of thebest films ever produced. Orson Wells portrays Kane as hole-and-corner(a) person butalso a sad person. The different accounts are shown throughout the movie throughthe reporter wanting to find out who or what Rosebud is. Rosebud was Kaneslast dying words.     The first gear person the reporter Jerry Thompson sees is the possessor of WalterParks Thatchers estate and holdings. Thatcher is long dead and who? visits hislibrary and is allowed to inspect the financiers memoirs in manuscript. ThroughThatchers words we see Kane as a boy performing with his s direct on a snow-sweptColorado farm. Through his mother, the boy has safe inherited a bulky fortune.Unable to settle his bill, a prospector who boarded with the Kanes leftover behindsto ck certificates that make Mrs. Kane the sole owner of one of the worldsgreat silver mines. She then makes her son the ward of the bank that administersher estate, and Thatcher, whom the angry unfledged Kane bashes with a sled, takesthe boy East to be raised. The movie then shows Kane suppuration up, making lifemiserable for Thatcher. The mature Kane decides to take direct run into of asmall, struggling newspaper, and immediately begins using it to attack Thatcherand others among Americas financial elite. This displays the enigma with Kaneas he wants to expand on something small into something big, but we dont cognisewhat.     The next account was given by Bernstein, Kanes devoted assistant. Heexplains the beginnings as a newspaper czar and his takeover of the New YorkEnquirer, in which he fired its editor, hired an expensive, top-notch staff, andenlisted his college friend Jedediah Leland as the drama critic. Kane is atfirst a crusader for the understanding, opening his first editorial with a" solvent of principles." He becomes a champion of the little person, hypinghis circulation with juicy scandals, crime exposes, etc. In a surprise move Kanemarries Emily Norton, the presidents niece. For the first time here we seeKane starting a love story. However this wasnt to last and it paved the wayfor the second-love.     The reporter then visits a half-drunk Susan Alexander in a nightclub.She recalls her meeting and eventual affair with the married Kane and theirdiscovery by Leland, who is led to their love nest by Kanes political rival,"Big Jim" Gettys. Until that point, Kane is heavily successful to defeat Gettys in