ROSEBUD! The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is undoubtedly one of the most famous and highly acclaimed films in history. Stemming from the ¡°Hollywood¡¯s America¡± genre of films, as detailed in Setting the Scene: The Great Hollywood Art Directors, Citizen Kane blew away audiences with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques, innovations, and art direction. The director, star, and producer were all the same individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at …showed first 75 words of 1263 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1263 total…expense of human potentialities. The implied absence of free will in the development of Kane's character is thematically constant with the moral climate of his environment. As the techniques used have not been limited in form, so too, Kane's magnitude unchecked by limiting principles or rooted traditions, become the cause of spiritual. It is the implementation of such unlimited filmmaking techniques that help make Citizen Kane the absolute masterpiece that audiences have come to cherish.