Who really knows what it means.

The Rosebud reveal is really sad. Watching the thing burn its so depressing. Like seeing a whole life going to waste beacuse of ambition

Damn, that hits hard.

Damn I miss that sled.

@@joshb9516 :)

To me, I feel like you never get to "really" know Kane. You get an idea of who he is through others.

thank you so much! i’ve wondered how this was received when it came out. what people thought at the time and not after the fact. looking up different variations of my question resulted in nothing. so truly, thank you!

Just so you know, comments like this are exactly why I love making these videos. Thank you.

Stellvia Hoenheim gaining a deeper appreciation for something and changing one’s opinion =/= blindly following popular opinion

Great Destroyer No, it really isn’t. Just because it has the same end result (praising a highly praised movie) doesn’t mean it involved the same process. If you’re saying they’re lying to get likes, then yeah maybe, but there’s no reason to just assume that. The comment seems genuine enough.

OP didn’t even say that they liked it now; they just said they see why it’s so highly regarded now.

Great Destroyer If you agree with someone’s argument and don’t have a counter-argument then why wouldn’t you change your opinion? That is the point of discussion. Not changing your view at that point is just being a disingenuous contrarian for no reason.

I agree - same goes for certain books, music etc.

im at 13 right now and ive watched it twice so i can appreciate more the second watch if yah know what i mean although its not my favourite movie but its still a masterpiece

@@ash-dy2dm A 13 year old would probably love Tarantino, try to watch Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction you will enjoy them. Also you could try Scarface and The Godfather, but the latter is more mature and long. Blade Runner is another masterpiece you should watch if you like Cyber Punk theme, and I will also encourage you to check Ghost in the shell from 1995 it will certainly inspire you.

@@Nonesovile96 I would agree with you on the first half of Amberson's it's just unfortunate that it was never allowed to be a fully realized vision. Touch of Evil is terrific even with Charlton Heston Brown face

I'm 26 and I found it quite boring, I mean its good, its a good movie I enjoyed it, but I don't know I found it boring. I guess I must give it a second chance

It is unique but that does not make it the greatest film of all time.

@@bighands69 It is the best film ever made.

@@idkanymore3382 It is a great film but it lacks a climax especially when it hinted at one for so long throughout the film. It is very well directed, acted, great script but the overall story goes nowhere hence why it is not the greatest film of all time. It is not as good as The Lady Vanishes, Vertigo, Ben-Hur, Godfather and many other great films.

@@idkanymore3382 no

@@dwaynekeenum1916 Yes, go back to watching iron man

To be honest, though it's a great film, it's not the best Orson Welles movie. That would be either Chimes at Midnight or Touch of Evil. A lot of people, including myself when younger, are put off Welles because they regard viewing his work as a homework assignment, especially since Kane is a film that has to be seen a few times to fully enjoy.

Yes. Welles SHOULD have been allowed to have final say on the final cinema cut for Theater. If that were allowed, he likely would have had at least 5 or 6 films on par with Citizen Kane. With proper financial backing, maybe 8 or 10.(!) And yes: sometimes he was his own worst enemy.

What? He did have final cut. What are you talking about?

Always wondered "Who heard Kane whisper 'Rosebud'"? The nurse? She was outside of his closed bedroom and probably only heard the snow globe crash.

The Third Man is also a highly critically acclaimed film of Welles, if I remember correctly.

I would argue against the "greatest movie of all time" bit by using the arguments of Late Spring/Tokyo Story (Ozu) and Rashomon/Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) or even "The Killing/Paths of Glory" (Stanley Kubrick) But then, Citizen Kane came TEN YEARS at least before all of these. So I give it its merits. Not greatest thing I ever seen, but still GREAT.

@@FeelingShred "The Killing" as the greatest movie of all time?? This came 15 years after Kane, and there had been countless similar movies up until it came out in '56. I'd venture to say the things you liked best about it, like the long track shots and information dump dialogue were already perfected in Kane. The acting and dialogue in The Killing is among the worst of all the movies of the time which had also already been perfected in Kane. In The Killing there is no equal an actor or character that Wells brought to the screen in Kane; no one as believable, and certainly no one as in depth regarding the inner workings and the pitfalls of finding success in the modern age- something we've all been taught is so important in western society. Personally, and I'm just going to be blunt here. Kubrick is/was/and always has been an Orson Wells imposter, who was actually quite clever at stealing much of his work and convincing his fanboys that he was actually being original most of the time, and therefor his fanboys always seem to like his work over others in comparison. Kubrick was a great artist and somewhat decent innovator at times, but he was also a charlatan and a fraud, who ultimately failed to admit where he knew he was drawing much of his material from and just how cheap so many of tricks really were. He was actually one of the reasons Wells didn't like to watch other's movies. He'd be either too disgusted by it or too attempted to steal something.

@@Rick-the-Swift Didn't Welles borrow ideas from earlier French and German film makers?

@@charliewest1221 yes indeed, of course Welles "borrowed" many ideas from many people, and if you listen to him long enough, he usually admitted to all of his shenanigans. That's where I grew to respect Welles. He didn't sugarcoat the fact that Hollywood and New York media was full of vampires and prostitutes who sucked and leached everything they could in order to produce their films. He well understood that he stood tall among them. But even though Welles was borrowing ideas, his ambition and luck is what set him apart from the rest who proceeded him. His production of "Kane" cemented him as the first "epic" movie maker. The story was epic, the dialogue spoke volumes, and the continuity from beginning to end was completely original.

@@Rick-the-Swift Thank you for your response.

I saw that episode and I like it and laugh that reference. 😂

this movie is shit

@@chepecheapy308 You're the greatest shit ever made!!!

@@chepecheapy308 how did god allow you to be born ?

Such a beautiful and bold line

@@zedankhan6123 then tell me why the movie is good, when i saw it i fell asleep twice

I would even argue that the last shot in Rebecca had influenced the burning sled in Citizen Kane. But that's just me, speculating.

That last shot in Rebecca is something else. It had to have some kind of influence.

Hitchcock may have been directing long before Welles, but Hitch was in his 40's when he came to Hollywood whereas a 25 year old Welles made the greatest film of all time at his debut. Compare and contrast.

@@FirstPlace97 That's not contradicting anything Michael Cullen said.

@@karlkarlos3545 What I'm saying is that what Welles achieved was unparalleled at the time, and it's hard to deny that he was the dominant force of the 1940's cinema. having said that, Hitchcock did have an extraordinary period in the 50's

yeah a dick move to just casually show it like its nothing.

It's just a movie... chill. There's far worse out there.

I hate safe spaces... but I agree with you. It is a dick move.

@@JacobMcAllister what's worse than cutting an eye in half? Raping a kid? I don't want to see that. Also I don't want to see tiny clips diminishing the effect of these movies. Don't show the pay off scene to people that don't see the movie. Don't show the final image of Planet of the Apes at all. Some scenes are meant to suprise

@@MicahMicahel well you had to take it from 10 to 100 didn't you lol why was rape the first thing on your mind weirdo? Anyway, 99% of the world has no idea where that eye scene comes from and 98% don't care to ever find out. And it's not exactly the shock and awe moment it was in 1929. The world has moved far beyond that level of grotesque. And planet of the apes is over 50 years old at this point and that ending is cemented in pop culture. Film isn't a bubble.

It is one of those films that does cut through time but that still does not mean it is the greatest film of all time.

It is one of those films that you do not even need to grasp the period. I do not think it is the greatest film of all time in the English speaking world.

No

FP The Godfather and 2001 are both overwhelmingly better than Citizen Kane. don’t get me wrong Kane does seem pretty influential but I didn’t really like it that much when I first watched it when I was 17.

Leo thats subjectif, i personally think Kane is the best

I agree completely, the story transcends time and place, it has a universal meaning that left a huge impression on me when I first watched it. As much as these titles such as "greatest film" are void of meaning, if there is one movie that is worthy of it it's Citizen Kane, it's undoubtedly a masterpiece in every way.

Tokyo Story is better imo

@@ihatefanserviceanime364 this nigga just said Tokyo Story 😂

have some praise

At about the same age, Kane was showing on TV. My mother let me stay up late to see it. She'd seen it in 1941 and said "You should watch this. It's important." From the first frame, the mystery and atmosphere of it grabbed me. Mother was correct. It's the most important film ever made.

Its not that simple though. Its about the event that made him who he was. This was the trauma that made him believe that a loss off control means a loss of love. It does refer to his childhood but it is about the events that made him the broken man he was. A 9 year old could not comprehend the subtext

Good point, I didn't even remember the Rosebud thing until I watched this video here now. I didn't think it was "the greatest movie I ever watched" by any stretch of the imagination, but I couldn't take my eyes off it, which is a testament to the great storytelling in itself. Another movie that caused me the same effect was Stanley Kubrick's "Killer's Kiss", it was a story that never actually went anywhere, you're always waiting for a twist or a punchline that never comes, but even then I couldn't stop watching it. I think there's something to be said about that. It's not about the destination, it's the journey. Maybe? Now, when I think of movies that caused me that feeling of "this is the best thing I ever watched" it was early Ozu and Kurosawa movies, specially Rashomon/Seven Samurai and Late Spring/Tokyo Story, these movies moved me in a way I didn't even think movies were capable of.

But even then, I have to make one concession to Citizen Kane: it was made 10, 15 years before these other movies I mentioned where made. It was the pioneer.

La Règle du Jeu simply did not have the same level of impact that Citizen Kane had.

I think Spielberg is on record as saying that that shot did inspire Raiders. Good eye.

Fr. I had a blast watching it. Was in awe of performances, editing and cinematography the whole time.

I believe the Writers Guild had to step in so that Mankiewitz got his credit due.