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Welles' talent for aging into the bitter, declining Kane is truly remarkable. And as the young Kane, full of fire and utopian spirit, he is unstoppable. Sweeping through the staid New York Inquirer, the young man announces that the paper is to enter a new era, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough!" Kane soon proves that his new journalism sells--that he can fight for the downtrodden while boosting his circulation; that he can create wars with a run of his press; and power in the world can't bring him what he wants...
...Citizen Kane's" storytelling and performances are enhanced by Gregg Toland's masterful photography. Each moment is a sleight of light. As Kane reads his publishing "Declaration of Principles" in a moment of giddy righteousness, Toland manages to keep Kane perpetually in an opaque shadow while fully lighting the other actors in the scene; even when one moves to Kane's side, they remain as day and night to each other, foreshadowing the depths to which Kane will soon sink...
...shadow and illumination in "Citizen Kane" tells the story with force equal to its story and character; together they create a cinema legacy which is strengthened with every new movie released. Look for the works of Spielberg, Stone, Scorscese, Branaugh and Coppola in the film. they're all in there, somewhere in the long shadow cast by "Citizen Kane...
Perhaps the only person who would be uncowed by the challenge of following Kane is the indomitable Norma Desmond. Nothing can beat the sheer eerieness (and glorious camp appeal) of fading silent screen diva Gloria Swanson "playing" fading silent screen diva Norma Desmond on film...
Like "Citizen Kane," "Sunset Boulevard" begins with its ending, the unexplained death of the hero. In a trick of cinematography, the glassy face of a B-movie screenwriter wavers across the screen, his corpse floating facedown in the white marble swimming pool of a forgotten star. As the sun rises over Hollywood, he begins to narrate the great story he never produced: his own demise...