The Battle Over Citizen Kane
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Orson Welles Interview on Citizen Kane
Orson Wells Interview On Citizen Cane
He explains that it was a kind of social call out but he didn’t have to think of much of a different story to go along with that message.
He got confidence to make his film by pure ignorance as he described it.
He says that he wasn’t scared about being too out there when expressing the views in the film because the problems themselves are that significant to him and he think it’s important to get his point across.
The Battle over Citizen Kane
- Wells verbally abused his cast during Macbeth and didn’t really care about their lives unless it got what he wanted through the performance.
- He took in black actors for his play as some way to prove he could do anything, since discrimination and lack of education for people of color was common.
- He was genius in his department but really hard to work with.
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- He explains that when going into a ring with a bull, in order to win against it you must think like them first