Symbols and Tropes
Rosebud
This is it, guys. This is the big daddy of film symbols. Has it been parodied? Oh yes. Are people still writing articles about it? Oh yes. How about scholarly articles? Yep. We open this movie by w...
The Inquirer
When Charles Kane reaches the age of legal maturity, he takes full control of his fortune and tells Mr. Thatcher at the bank that's he's not interested in his primary sources of income like mines a...
Statues
Many millionaires spend a lot of their money on investments and other stuff that will make them even more money, but not our boy Charles Foster Kane. Instead, he buys up a bunch of artifacts and pr...
William Randolph Hearst
It wasn't exactly a secret that Welles was taking a sharp bite at William Randolph Hearst in this film. Seriously, he wasn't even trying to be subtle. Check it out: Like Kane, Hearst was a newspape...