Citizen Kane is yesterday’s outrage over Hearst and his newspaper empire.
Kane is not a pleasant man and so enduring a film about him isn’t a joy.
And if you don’t have stones to throw at Hearst you don’t have that pleasure either.
Modern audiences today are left with camera tricks and composition. Okayyyyy. Looks nice but not “the end all” of cinema.
“Citizen Kane is yesterday’s outrage over Hearst and his newspaper empire. Kane is not a pleasant man and so enduring a film about him isn’t a joy. And if you don’t have stones to throw at Hearst you don’t have that pleasure either. Modern audiences today are left with camera tricks and composition. Okayyyyy. Looks nice but not “the end all” of cinema.”
that’s exactly right, and it’s truly amazing that the leftist outrage of Hearst’s era has been passed down by so many generations of film school professors who worship it as “the greatest film ever made”, which is as much about the film being prototypical propaganda in the guise of fiction as the supposedly brilliantly innovative “techniques” that it embodies.