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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sun Oct-02-11 11:18 PM
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374. Citizen Kane is highly regarded because it was so innovative for its time

Edited on Sun Oct-02-11 11:21 PM by Lydia Leftcoast

Many of the narrative and cinematic techniques that are commonplace in today's films were seen FIRST in Citizen Kane, made when Welles was only 25.

It seems boring and ho-hum today because we've seen all that before. When it came out in the 1940s, it was considered extremely innovative.

It's like Birth of a Nation, some 30 years before that. Offensive story, characters from the corniest melodramas, but Griffith did things with the camera and narrative structure that no one had ever done before. Again, we can't see it, because we're used to it.

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