If you've seen Citizen Kane, you know the reporters disperse to figure out the meaning of one of his last words. I am not bragging or trying to sound smart, but I figured out what the meaning would be the moment they were given the assignment. It seemed obvious to me owing to the way the sequence was set up with young Kane in the snow and the fate he was about to undergo. I can understand audiences at the time not getting it, but don't you think a basic knowledge of contemporary developmental psychology more or less gives it away. I won't say more than that for obvious reasons, especially for people who haven't seen it.
2007-03-15 15:57:36 · 3 answers · asked by holacarinados 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I don't think audiences at the time would have missed that. The point is that at the end the reporters never figure it out, and Rosebud is destroyed. The movie doesn't hang on figuring out what Rosebud meant - it hangs on the story of an ambitious rich man who at the end of his life still missed his childhood sled.
2007-03-15 16:28:38 · answer #1 · answered by Koko Nut 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The movie used the last word that he had said before he died as the BASIC plot. But the film itself was about the man himself and his life. The people that he loved, lost, hated, etc. The people that made him the way he was. It is the story about Kane.
In my opinion, the movie is over rated. It is all about cinematography. The story line was boring...
2007-03-15 23:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Brandy G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You da man. You got it that quick, WOWZERS, you have just moved up to my newest and favorite hero. (Will you whisper in my ear what the word is?)
2007-03-15 23:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋