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sequence when we realize Kane and
score.
Can anyone deny it's the great-
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est
score
ever written for a film?
Welles may not have revolutionized
Ironically,
it's not the greatest film
film technique, but his influence on
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score
ever
written.
By itself, it loses its
Hollywood films of the '40s is quite
vibrancy,
its
sweep,
its passion, but
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prodigious. (One example is David
couple
it
with
picture
and dialogue,
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Selznick's
and
it
becomes
unforgettable.
released the next year.)
Lovers of the film consider the
Publicly, Citizen Kane seems to
explanation
of Rosebud to be a major
have been reviled by the film colony
weakness,
but
if you look back at the •
(in fact, the one Oscar it received for
scene
where
Kane
meets Susan for the
Best Screenplay, shared with Joseph
first
time,
he
explains
that he had
Mankiewicz, may well have been
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been
to
the
warehouse
"in search of
intended as a slap at Welles). Privately,
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his
lost
youth."
Kane's
attachment to
though, Hollywood filmmakers
his
mother
and
their
separation
when
admired the film.
Beyond technique
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this is the story of a man
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destroyed by his love for
a woman.
Some have called this
aspect of the film trite
and novelette-ish, but I
disagree. For me, it
embodies the Aristotelian
definition of tragedy.
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unable to alter the course
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Finally, there's the editing, which in
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first appearance, following the news-
Rosebud to the inventorying of Kane's •
reel
footage,
is
absolutely
wondrous.
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priceless treasures. A series of dissolves
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Welles plays Kane at 25 with a brash-
ultimately unravels the mystery of
ness and an exuberance that is breath-
Rosebud. In this sequence,
taking. In the scene in which he
Herrmann's score reaches a crescendo
makes a promise to Susan that she no
that never fails to send chills down my
longer will have to pursue her singing
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