Citizen Kane: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Charles Foster Kane, obviously. He turns from an idealistic muckraker to a mogul whose life is slowly spiraling out of control.

* [[Aside Glance]]:

* [[Badass Boast]]: "I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm not some cheap politician!"

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Kane's wives, Emily and Susan, respectively

* [[Big Fancy House]]: Xanadu.

* [[Blunt Yes]]:

'''Bernstein:''' Yes. If you thought I'd answer you any differently than what Mr. Kane tells you... }}

* [[Book Ends]]: The same shot of Kane's house.

* [[The Gay Nineties]]: Kane's childhood.

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: When Kane announces his intention to make Susan Alexander an opera star, a reporter asks if she'll sing at the Met:

''(cut to newspaper headline: "KANE BUILDS OPERA HOUSE")'' }}

* [[The Great Depression]]: Major element of the setting.

* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Averted with Susan Alexander. To get the effect of a realistically overmatched singer, Welles got a professional '''alto''' opera singer and had her sing a soprano part

* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]]: [[Inverted Trope]] by Kane, when he is forced to give up the control of his empire. Hardly a nobody. Very disillusioned, he reflects that it was his ''advantages'' that stole him his chance at true greatness:

'''[[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Thatcher:]]''' What would you like to have been? <br />

'''Charles Foster Kane:''' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|Everything you hate.]] }}

* [[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: This is Kane's main motivation. [[Deconstructed]], as, despite how innocuous a motivation it seems, it causes him to be a [[Jerkass]].

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]:

'''Leland:''' I am not overdressed. }}

* [[It's All About Me]]: Kane’s mission in life is ''to be loved on his own terms''. Lampshaded spectacularly:

'''Susan:''' I see. So it's you who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.'' [laughs] ''I can't do this to you? [odd smile] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Oh, yes I can.]] }}

* [[It's All Junk]]: Kane is an obsessive collector of everything, who then treats people like objects and dies a lonely old man, surrounded by glorified junk in a ridiculously opulent estate.

* [[Trade Your Passion for Glory]]

* [[Tragic Hero]]: Kane, lampshaded by Leland.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Rosebud" was allegedly William Randolph Hearst's pet name for a specific part of Marion Davies' genitalia. Gives a whole new meaning to [[It Was His Sled]] now, doesn't it?

* [[Video Credits]]: A clip of each major character is shown in the credits, except Kane himself.