Scene Analysis from Citizen Kane

practically regarded as the greatest characterization ever do, because of the use of cinematography, record structure and medicine etcetera that was innovative of the time it was made in, Citizen Kane (Orson Welles 1941) is a moving picture á clef that peers into the vicissitudes in the biography of a newspaper tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, with the numbers of the people in his life that was close to him in set to solve the mystery of his decease word, Rosebud. The taking over that forget be analysed is the sequence where in Xanadus butlers account of when he heard Rosebud, Susan Alexander, Kanes second wife, leaves him for good, sending him into a fit of rage which results in his silent departure. This analysis will pick apart the sequence and put it back together again to extract the master(prenominal) themes that arise from it.\nIn the gap circumstance of this sequence, the dissolve from the exterior view of the day takes us to a large K, accompanied by spectacula r non diegetic music. The change in music completely interrupts the calm exclamatory music that was playing ahead it, which foreshadows a dramatic scene later on in the sequence. The K imposes itself on us; almost looming over us like Kane does to Susan in the precedent jigsaw sequence. This reinforces his overbearing, self-centred and egotistical nature that has increased with his age, and that Susan has had bountiful of.\nThe first word verbalised after this opening is Rosebud, and as the camera cuts to Mr Thompson and his interviewee, the silly empennage them shining in by means of the windows illuminates the staircase. This light symbolises Mr Thompsons point to harness the meaning of Rosebud, as he is literally cast off light on Kanes life by peeking through and through it. This is similar to the scene where Mr Rawlston told Mr Thompson to find out what Rosebud meant, where the room was shrouded in darkness apart from the light streaming in through the windows. Tha t symbolised the mysteriousness of Kanes life...