Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Faulkner,Eliot and Joyce --- Oh My!
Citizen Kane has a distinctive narrative technique in which Welles tells Kane's story from multiple perspectives and uses flashbacks rather than a chronological order. Do you see any connection between Welles' storytelling and modernist fiction? Why do you think he tells his story using these innovative techniques rather that just a straightforward narrative?
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Aside from making the film much more interesting, I had been under the impression that the film was much like what the news reel would have looked like if the correspondents had been successful in their quest to understand what rosebud meant. Obviously it's a lengthed new reel but like any news or report, it's always important to be unbias and gather information from many different sources. With the various interviews conducted the viewer gets the whole picture of what Kane was all about and are able to share inside information that would have been awkward to present in any other way.
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