Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Snow Globe, Materialism, Old Age
23 Apr 2014
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The parallels between kane and welles helped welles give a remarkable performance. Welles didn"t just act the part of kane: in many ways, welles was kane. The gesture is a rebuke, but it is also a way of suggesting it"s not too late for kane to change. Kane tears it up, effectively slicing leland out of his life forever. Major themes: the difficulty of interpreting a life, after watching kane"s biography the biographer wants to know what drives. Kane"s behaviors: kane"s life story unfolds in layers through the reporter thompson"s investigation and is told by a succession of people who were close to him. The myth of the american dream: when thatcher removes kane from this place, he"s given what seems like the. At one point he claims he can"t remember the name of kane"s estate (xanadu). These hazy recollections and idealizations are all that remain of kane, a man who was once so powerful and larger-than-life.
