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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/15/19 2:03:20 PM #268:	#4. Citizen Kane https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Citizenkane.jpg Dir: Orson Welles Genre: Drama, Mystery Year: 1941 *SephG Superlative: The greatest movie of the 1940s* Growing up, Citizen Kane was always the gold standard of filmmaking. To the Ebert generation of film critics, it was the Sgt. Pepper of movies--the unanimous crowning achievement in the medium that could never be surpassed regardless of what gets made in the future. Nowadays some critics have deviated from that mantra in order to separate their opinions from the pack, but the point still stands. Citizen Kane is generally considered to be the greatest movie ever made. And it truly deserves all the praise it gets. Little needs to be said about how groundbreaking this movie is. Orson Welles took the art form forward with a giant leap in technical expertise and cinematic storytelling. The framing of the shots, the lighting, and the camera work are unmatched by anything in American cinema until Kubricks heyday. But more than just the technical evolution it inspired, Citizen Kane is also a watershed moment in visual storytelling. Its story is like the Moby-Dick of films--it's both an epic story on its own, but also a universal allegory that can be applied across a number of topics, and will continue to motivate scholarly thought for decades to come. Charles Foster Kane is pretty much the embodiment of America in its rise to superpowerdom in the 20th century. A rags to riches arc that is fraught with moral dilemmas, misrepresentation by outsiders, and a touch of mystery around his ultimate motivations. Orson Welles delivers a very nuanced performance of one of the most fascinating characters in fiction--one that leaves us ultimately sympathetic and also in awe of the man hes portraying. The ending of Citizen Kane is still, in my opinion, the most satisfying resolution to a mystery twist in movie history, and I envy anyone watching it for the first time without it having already been spoiled by pop culture references. Citizen Kane is probably the easiest argument to make for best movie ever, but there are three films ahead of it that Ill accept the challenge to defend first. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924721053] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#4. Citizen Kane https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Citizenkane.jpg Dir: Orson Welles Genre: Drama, Mystery Year: 1941 SephG Superlative: The greatest movie of the 1940s Growing up, Citizen Kane was always the gold standard of filmmaking. To the Ebert generation of film critics, it was the Sgt. Pepper of movies--the unanimous crowning achievement in the medium that could never be surpassed regardless of what gets made in the future. Nowadays some critics have deviated from that mantra in order to separate their opinions from the pack, but the point still stands. Citizen Kane is generally considered to be the greatest movie ever made. And it truly deserves all the praise it gets. Little needs to be said about how groundbreaking this movie is. Orson Welles took the art form forward with a giant leap in technical expertise and cinematic storytelling. The framing of the shots, the lighting, and the camera work are unmatched by anything in American cinema until Kubricks heyday. But more than just the technical evolution it inspired, Citizen Kane is also a watershed moment in visual storytelling. Its story is like the Moby-Dick of films--it's both an epic story on its own, but also a universal allegory that can be applied across a number of topics, and will continue to motivate scholarly thought for decades to come. Charles Foster Kane is pretty much the embodiment of America in its rise to superpowerdom in the 20th century. A rags to riches arc that is fraught with moral dilemmas, misrepresentation by outsiders, and a touch of mystery around his ultimate motivations. Orson Welles delivers a very nuanced performance of one of the most fascinating characters in fiction--one that leaves us ultimately sympathetic and also in awe of the man hes portraying. The ending of Citizen Kane is still, in my opinion, the most satisfying resolution to a mystery twist in movie history, and I envy anyone watching it for the first time without it having already been spoiled by pop culture references. Citizen Kane is probably the easiest argument to make for best movie ever, but there are three films ahead of it that Ill accept the challenge to defend first. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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