12/31/2022 0 Comments War of the roses kane show![]() In making this clear during the course of the picture, it was my attempt to lead the thoughts of my audience closer and closer to the solution of the enigma of his dying words. From the point of view of the psychologist, my character had never made what is known as “transference” from his mother. He was snatched from his mother’s arms in early childhood. The most basic of all ideas was that of a search for the true significance of the man’s apparently meaningless dying words. A man, who has money and doesn’t have to concern himself with making more, naturally wishes to use it for the exercise of power … ![]() My story was not, therefore, about how a man gets money, but what he does with his money - not when he gets old - but throughout his entire career. The interpretations of such a character by his intimates were too obvious for my purpose I therefore invested my character with sixty million dollars at the age of eight so that there was no considerable or important gain in point of wealth possible from a dramatic point of view. I wished to make a picture which might be called a “failure story.” I did not wish to portray a ruthless and gifted industrialist working his way up from a simple lumberman or streetcar conductor to a position of wealth and prominence. There have been many motion pictures and novels rigorously obeying the formula of the “success story,” I wished to do something quite different. I immediately decided that my character (Charles Foster Kane) should be a public man - an extremely public man - an extremely important one … Clearly such a notion could not be worked out if it would apply to an ordinary American citizen. It was my idea to show that six or more people could have as many widely divergent opinions concerning the nature of a single personality. For this, I desired a man of many sides and many aspects. ![]() I wished to make a motion picture which was not a narrative of action so much as an examination of character. ![]() The complete press release, uncovered by biographer Frank Brady, has been more extensively reported here in the past, but it bears repeating. The most detailed answer given by Orson Welles was contained in a press statement released by RKO Radio Pictures prior the film’s release in May 1941. “What does ‘Rosebud’ mean in ‘Citizen Kane’?” It is perhaps the question most often fielded by Wellesnet. ![]()
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