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...Don’t be too original. Yes, there is a “Best Original Screenplay?? category, but the Academy really isn’t too big on original thought. Give us Frodo. Give us three standard relationship stories, but with a tragic twist to them. Make one about schizophrenic mathematician John Nash. Give another one of them a midlife crisis. Make one of them a smitten William Shakespeare. Then, put them on the Titanic. Or, borrow something else that is already favorably positioned in the American consciousness. Who doesn’t love Lord...
...life. The film’s original print was saved from destruction several times and, at Hearst’s threats, Citizen Kane was banned from all but one movie house in North America. Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards but only won one—Best Screenplay??and for years the film sunk into oblivion. Such tales make The Battle for Citizen Kane, the documentary featured on the second disc, thoroughly captivating, but what of the film itself...