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The film was originally called "American", when George Schaefer, the owner of Raiden Hua Company, suggested that it be changed to "Citizen Kane". Wells also considered using the name "John Q.".
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There is a bug in the film, that is, because Kane died alone, his last words "Rosebud" will not be heard.
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At the beginning of the film, only the title was typed without the starring name, which was unprecedented in Hollywood at the time.
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The filming of the film is confidential. Hirst believes that the film is alluding to himself, so he protested and tried to buy the film for $800,000 and ban it from being shown.
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In order to achieve the special effects that Wells pursued, the film used a large number of special effects shots when there was only a setting fee of 100,000 US dollars at that time.
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Most of the actors in the film come from the Crystal Theatre Company founded by Wells at the age of 21, and have almost no experience in film acting.
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Not long after the opening of the film, there was a scene of an elderly Kane being interviewed by reporters. In fact, the reporter holding the microphone is the photographer Gregg Toland of the film.
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The voice of Susan singing opera in the film was provided by a professional opera singer, Jean Forward from the San Francisco Opera House. She deliberately sang badly and asked Wells not to make her true identity public.
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In order to get rid of the control of the studio, Wells lied that the actors and crew members were still rehearsing. In fact, they had been filming for several days.
Citizen Kane behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Alexis 2021-10-20 19:00:28
The fragmented time-retrospective structure of unspecified time sequence is indeed a great invention of this film. The interactive scheduling of the depth of field before and after the level is the second great invention. With these two alone, this film has both technically and ideologically entered. Ranks among the greatest masterpieces. It’s also hard to imagine how Orson Wells, who made a feature film for the first time, formed such a complicated and changeable concept of depth-of-field scheduling in his mind. In the unprecedented situation at the time, a novice could open up his predecessors on a large scale. The essence of the movie that has never been known can only be described by genius. But on the other hand, his fascination with the upside-down shots is already a bit uncomfortable in this film, and it directly made the audience dizzy in the subsequent Abeson family and Mr. Arkadin. In addition, how to prevent emotions and emotions from jumping in the clip is also a problem he has not solved in his life. This kind of PPT fracture has already begun to show in "Citizen Kane".
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Rowan 2022-03-21 09:01:09
First, the original title of the film is "American"; second, the hero calls his lover "a cross-section of the American public" (a cross-section of the American public); third, The director regretted that American audiences did not see this as a "satiric comedy."
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Charles Foster Kane: A toast, Jedediah: to Love on my own terms.
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Susan Alexander Kane: Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you!