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Contents 1 Themes 2 Massive cleanup 3 Merging Charles Foster Kane 4 Help! 5 Music 6 Really?

[edit] Themes

I removed this section from the article because it contains unsourced original research.--J.D. (talk) 17:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

The journalist's mission of retrieving the meaning of Kane's final word leads him in the end to conclude that a man's life cannot be summed up in one word and, as he picks up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, that "rosebud" is a "missing piece" in his life. The movie is made up of fragments of Kane's life, shown in non-chronological order, for the viewer to put together.

When his second wife abandons him, Kane begins destroying her room. He grabs a snow globe and is about to throw it when he sees the falling snowflakes inside. The image of falling snow evokes involuntary memories in Kane. He remembers being sent away by his mother when it was snowing, making him utter "Rosebud" — another memory of the occasion.

Another theme expounded in the film is the limits of power and money. Even though Kane is incredibly wealthy and powerful he fails in using that wealth and power to win his election as governor, promote his second wife, Susan, as an opera star, or obtain the love and loyalty of those around him. In the end he is portrayed as a lonely old man, shuttered inside Xanadu, the ornate palace he has built to soothe his ego. His expensive possessions are helpless to replace the emotional losses in his life.

Other lesser themes are the inner workings of the media (creating the newsreel, running a newspaper), the vagaries of time (expressed in the various characters' individual memories, also the inability to recapture the past or escape the past) and the desecration of the American Dream.

[edit] Massive cleanup

I've started to go through this article and cleanup the existing citations and moved around sections to provide a more coherent order. There is tons of great stuff, it just needs to be organized better. I've also noticed a glaringly lack of citations for a lot of factoids pertaining to all aspects of the film. I've got a few books on Kane that I can look up and provide some much-needed citations. It would be nice to see this article reach FA status where it rightly belongs.--J.D. (talk) 21:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Charles Foster Kane

Seriously, there's no reason all that information in that article can't exist here. There's never going to be a remake or sequel to this film. *Lord forbid* Alientraveller (talk) 20:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the notion. The character is completely film-centric with Citizen Kane and does not transcend it. All real-world context such as intended characteristics or critical analysis will be completely in relation to the film. Merging it would reduce redundancy, and I see too much in-universe information ("Biography") and original research ("Political views"). Cited information about him can belong on the film article. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 20:55, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

I'm trying to hyperlink the reference to Delmonico's to the article on the restaurant, but it keeps producing a red link. I thought I knew how to do this! Either I'm doing something wrong or the software is broken somehow!66.72.38.235 (talk) 18:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Music

I heard, that music from Citizen Kane includes some of Richard Wagner's operas. Is it true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.27.90.251 (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Really?

"Citizen Kane is a 1941 classic British dramatic film..." Really?RayJohnstone (talk) 03:27, 18 May 2008 (UTC)