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* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Kane started off as one, and was moderately successful as such, exposing corruption successfully and ascending the ranks in journalism.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Kane started off as one, and was moderately successful as such, exposing corruption successfully and ascending the ranks in journalism.
* [[The Wild West]]: Eight-year-old Kane grew up in 1871 Colorado; seen in a brief [[Flash Back]]
* [[The Wild West]]: Eight-year-old Kane grew up in 1871 Colorado; seen in a brief [[Flash Back]]
* [[What Might Have Been]]: Originally, the movie was going to be based on the life of Howard Hughes with Cotten in the lead. Eventually, Welles realized [[Reality Is Unrealistic|nobody would believe most of the stuff Hughes had done]], so he decided to make Kane a media baron instead.
** Also, Welles was originally going to make an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' but the executives didn't believe they could possibly stretch a budget far enough to cover it, so he made [[Tropes Are Not Bad|''Kane'']] instead.
* [[Woman in White]]: Not seen but remembered by Bernstein.
* [[Woman in White]]: Not seen but remembered by Bernstein.