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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