Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is considered by many critics and film scholars to be the best movie. It is an outrageous claim that there can be a single best movie, but if there is one, Citizen Kane is definitely in the running. It is also considered by many to be on par with, if not better than, Casablanca. It ....

Citizen Kane Analysis
Citizen Kane begins with an overlook of a castle upon a hill, which projects an eerie feeling as the camera angles over a No Trespassing sign. The camera goes into a lit window and we see a snowy cabin, but as the camera goes backwards the scene that was showing was inside of a snow globe. The....

Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal of William Randolph Hearst?
Many have called Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. It is indeed a true masterpiece of acting, screen writing, and directing. Orson Welles, its young genius director, lead actor, and a co-writer, used the best talents and techniqu....

Comparison of both king kong movies
The original King Kong was created by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Shoedsack in 1933, during the great depression. The original was made by RKO pictures and was said to have saved them from bankruptcy. RKO were also the producers of Orson Wells Citizen Kane. King Kong 2005 was created by Peter J....

Filming macbeth
Filming of Macbeth: A History Presentation Reflection Paper Macbeth was originally a play performed on stage. However, over the last hundred years, it has been featured in many films. Each film has the same general idea according to the play written by William Shakespeare, but may have some slig....

Guerilla Marketing
Jay Conrad Levinson made the phrase Guerilla Marketing popular in his 1984 book Guerilla Marketing. Guerilla Marketing is the best selling marketing brand in history. It includes books by the dozens, a web site, and an association. The term is used to describe an unusual system of promotions ....

mccarthyism
The Alien Registration Act passed by Congress on 29th June, 1940, made it illegal for anyone in the United States to advocate, abet, or teach the desirability of overthrowing the government. The law also required all alien residents in the United States over 14 years of age to file a comprehensive s....

mise en scene
Mise-en-scène and Symbolism Arguably one of the greatest concerns of a filmmaker is the notion of Mise-en-scène. Mise-en-scène is by dictionary definition the arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted (Merriam-Webster). Although to ....

Orson Welles
Staring across the abyss of time that compiles my last ten years of existence, I count myself blessed that providence has smiled upon me unremittingly. In the wake of the most devastating depression that this once glorious country has ever experienced I have emerge unscathed. The dawn of this deca....

Orson Welles, The Imagination Machine Who Rocked the World
Since the beginning of time, people have looked up into the sky and wonders; Is anybody out there? Tales of invaders from outer space had populated storytelling, scaring and amusing children, and adults alike. Orson Welles, in one short October hour, changed the way people think, not only abou....

The Magnificent Ambersons
The biggest mistake we have made is to consider that films are primarily a form of entertainment. The film is the greatest medium since the invention of movable type for exchanging ideas and information, and it is no more at its best in light entertainment than literature is at its best in the ligh....

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