Posted on 10/05/2018 1:17:27 AM PDT by gattaca
>>According to the Guardian, when Hearst heard about the movie, he was furious.
shades of the Kavanaugh witchhunt.
when you are attacked and smeared, you are supposed to lie back and take it.
I thought about that, too. When I saw “political sabotage” I thought about how much power the press has had for years to shape opinion. Henry Ford bought a newspaper. Most recently Jeff Bezos.
Are they trying to draw parallels between Citizen Kane and Ruin Johnson’s “last jedi”?
According to IMDB ratings, one of the Batman films is the third best film ever made.
“Rosebud” was supposedly the nickname Hearst gave to his side piece/lover’s clitoris.
Rosebud ! That flick is a masterpiece . When War of the Worlds went on I was listening to I think it was The Lone Ranger my BFF school chum Eddie Nickols was running out on Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood Morgan street along with others looking for those Martian space saucers.
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Because it's not the Greatest Film Ever Made?
I've watched it two times straight through and watched segments of it perhaps three other times.
It's a visually interesting film with good actors, but the story is a standard Hollywood cliché - a tormented rapacious rich man tries to buy respect and happiness, but fails.
Bottom Line for me - you can't make a great film if the audience doesn't care what happens to the main characters.
Hearst’s lover was actress Marion Davies.
Wow, you have great courage to post that here. I happen to agree with you. I can hardly stand to watch Kane.
My personal favorite is Doctor Zhivago. It speaks to every issue we are encountering today.
Agree Dr Zhivago should be mandatory viewing to graduate High School.
Surely, you jest. First off, it’s Russian. Second, it’s old (anything more than 29 years old). Third, it’s too big (anything bigger than a comic book).
But it accurately portrays what happens when bolsheviks grab power.
That was Marion Davies who was a beautiful silent film star and shouldn’t be compared to the terrible opera singer portrayed in the movie. I suspect that Rosebud story is Fake News.
Agreed.
The Clintons gave the brilliant “Path to 9/11” the William Hearst treatment, and Disney first censored and then buried it.
Interesting post; thread. Thanks to all.
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