Film Citizen Kane (1941) Has Essay

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"I'm not sorry." The close-up of Susan that closes the scene demonstrates that she has had an epiphany and will likely no longer maintain the shadow of her lonely life. The crooner is all the while singing the blues classic, "It Can't Be Love" while Susan reiterates the message of the work in a step-by-step angry rant, associated with dire unhappiness, reflective of the ignorance and unfeeling nature of her now aged husband. The song, the ranting, the sound of the slap and most startlingly the disembodied screaming of the young girl outside all play upon the structure of the scene, making it a telling and symbolic message of the changed relationship and the fear and anger associated with it. "Loudness, pitch, and timbre also shape our experience of a film as a whole. Citizen Kane, for example, offers a wide range of sound manipulations. Echo chambers alter timbre and volume. A motif is formed by the inability of Kane's wife Susan to sing..

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." (Bordwell & Thompson, 2004, p. 351) the development of sound in the film determine the whole of the changing characters and their relationships within the film.

The meanings and effects of the four differing aspects of the film, taken separately, as above, demonstrate significant messaging and coding in the work. They all work together to demonstrate how the world of Kane becomes exceedingly separate from his desires, i.e. To be an honest and simple man, clinging to his childhood memories in Colorado. His whole life was an attempt to reject his destiny, that of wealth and power. Kane builds his character to match demands that he does not desire, in fact much like his own father, who is stripped of any power or say as to where and with whom Charles will live and be raised, as he is not named as the owner of the land, that profits the family......

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