Citizen Kane Research

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

• Realized it was unique
• Movie was almost destroyed
• William Hurst got everything he had wanted since he was little
• Would create his own story
• Loved plays and films
• Parents died when he was young
• Became the voice over 100 radio characters
• Ate like a B E A S T
• Campaigned during 8 hour day
• Worst attendance record than any congressman
• Didn’t care about what others had thought about him
• Characters had to appear out of nowhere
• $40k in damages, tried doing radio for money

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• He got a contract in which he can do what he wants

Orson Welles Interview on Citizen Kane

• People wanted to stop the making of Citizen Kane
• Was intended as a social document and an attack of acquisitive society
• Was only 25 years old when he had made Citizen Kane
• Fails to recognize that Kane is a version of himself
• Not worried about taking a film too far
• Making your own film is an attack on Hollywood