[Movies] I just watched Citizen Kane for the first time

[Charlie Don't Surf]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Hailey Knight]

I said "oh boy" when I saw the thread title.

It delivered.

 

[Jay]

Spoiler

 

[Hailey Knight]

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

make all movies in black and white

 

[Bowielee]

Before seeing it, I was always told that it is great from an artistic standpoint, but wasn't entertaining at all.

I found it to be entertaining as hell. I enjoyed the story, characters, and the overall themes.

 

[bhamv3]

make all movies in black and white

Sin City style!

Actually, I've also never watched Citizen Kane. Should get around to it one of these days.

 

[sixpackshaker]

The best friend (Joseph Cotten I think) was totally and completely cool.

Now read the Bio of Hearst, at least the one on Wikipedia. And you'll know why that movie was banned in half the theaters in America. There were several liberties taken with the story, but Welles and Mankiewicz hit the the high points of Hearst quite well.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Let's all gets on bhamv's case about it like we did with Charlie!

 

[bhamv3]

Let's all gets on bhamv's case about it like we did with Charlie!

Yay! I love having people dogpile my case!

And by "case" I mean...

 

[blotsfan]

Spoiler

It was his sled wasn't it?

 

[sixpackshaker]

Spoiler

It was his sled wasn't it?

Spoiler

That is obvious from the very early scene where he is taken away from his parents. It is written on the bottom of the sled in HUGE letters around a painting of a rosebud...

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I was watching the Blu-Ray and looking for that (since I already knew the spoiler) and didn't see it. I think you're mistaking the final scene of the movie where the writing is very obvious and zoomed-in-on.

 

[sixpackshaker]

The first time they show the boy playing in the snow...

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I guess I blinked or something

 

[sixpackshaker]

It was that fast.

 

[checkeredhat]

True story, I have a friend who is 25, hasn't seen it, and still doesn't know that Rosebud is his sled. I mean even without having seen it, I thought EVERYONE knew.

Also, did you notice the pterodactyls?

 

[@Li3n]

Fun fact: i knew it was his sled before i knew a film called Citizen Kane existed...


Also, cinematography hasn't advanced one iota since the film came out... and no Michael Bay, more explosions on screen at the same time don't count...

 

[ElJuski]

still find it fucking crazy that you haven't seen that movie already

 

[rac3r_x]

Now watch Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, hella cool

 

[strawman]

Don't click if you haven't seen harry potter, the matrix, or citizen kane.

Spoiler

 

[sixpackshaker]

Spoiler

Snape killed trinity with rosebud.

...and he was a ghost the whole time.

 

[Bowielee]

...and he was a ghost the whole time.

Who was really Kaiser Soze the whole time.

 

[GasBandit]

And everybody on the train stabbed him once.

 

[ElJuski]

ahh the cane from Citizen Kane

 

[ScytheRexx]

 

[Steve]

I've never seen the film and had no idea what Rosebud was. Knowing what it is and not seeing the movie makes it sound like a strange movie.

 

[checkeredhat]

Ya know how I learned?

at 0:21

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I always find it really weird when I see a famous .gif in a movie. That moment in context of the movie is kind of fucking chilling.

 

[blotsfan]

Now watch Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, hella cool

If you could understand what the hell happened in that movie, you're a much smarter person than I am.