[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I just watched Citizen Kane again recently, first time since film school. My goodness, what a technical marvel that film is. He was so far ahead of his time it’s mind-blowing.

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Soooooo, did you catch the MAJOR error?

[RayChuang88]

The big reason why Citizen Kane didn't win a whole bunch of Oscars was the fact the film was more or less a thinly-disguised biography of William Randolph Hearst--and Hearst used well-known entertainment columnist Louella Parsons, a close family friend, to successfully lobby AMPAS to essentially boycott the film, preventing it from being nominated for most Oscars.

[caww]

You might enjoy this documentary on the making of Citizen Kane....Wells was deliberately making this film to make the statements that it did ...in the documentary he speaks of this.

I didn’t see Citizen Kane until I picked it up at a sale....had no clue what it was but my mother spoke of Orson Welles so I picked it up....fascinating film to be sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Xfm8GBPuQ

[Do the math]

Orson Welles was a creative man. My father was in NYC when Welles did The War of the Worlds on radio. He still talks about how the whole city panicked, believing they were under attack by Martians.

[Borges]

Welles was a direct descendant of John Alden, who came over on the Mayflower.