1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:14,320 Youth on the Martin Legendary was the Xanadu, where Kubla Khan decreed his stately 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:21,800 pleasuredome. Today almost as legendary as Florida, Xanadu world's largest private pleasure ground. 3 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:27,280 Here on the desert of the Gulf coast, a private mountain was commissioned 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,560 and successfully built. One hundred thousand trees twenty thousand tons of marble are the 5 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:40,560 ingredients of Xanadu's Mountain. Contents of Xanadu's palace, paintings, pictures, statues, 6 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,880 the very stones of many another palace. A collection of everything so big 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,240 it can never be cataloged or appraised, enough for ten museums. The loot 8 00:00:51,320 --> 00:01:00,200 of the world, Xanadu's livestock, the fowl of the air, the fish 9 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,400 of the sea, the beast of the field in jungle, two of each, 10 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,480 the biggest private zoos and snowa. Like the Pharaohs, Xanadu's Landlord leaves 11 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:19,799 many stones to mark his grave. Since the Pyramids, Xanadu is the costliest 12 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:27,120 monument a man has built to himself. Here in Xanadu, last week, 13 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:36,280 Xanadu's Landlord was laid to rest a potent figure of our century, America's Kubla 14 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:44,000 Khan Charles Foster Kane, It's humble beginnings in this ramshackle building, a dying 15 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:51,879 daily Can's empire in its glory held dominion over thirty seven newspapers, two syndicates, 16 00:01:52,239 --> 00:01:57,840 a radio network, an empire upon an empire, the first time, 17 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:06,120 grocery stores, paper hills, apartment buildings, factories, forests, ocean liners, 18 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:12,599 an empire through which, for fifty years flowed in an unending stream. 19 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,560 The wealth of the Earth's third richest gold mine, famed an American legend, 20 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,280 is the origin of the Cane fortune. How to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane, 21 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,719 by a defaulting border in eighteen sixty eight, was left to supposedly worthless deed 22 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:35,039 to an abandoned mine shaft, the Colorado alone. Fifty seven years later, 23 00:02:35,479 --> 00:02:39,639 before a congressional investigation, Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of Wall 24 00:02:39,719 --> 00:02:45,840 Street, four year's chief target of Caine Paper's attacks on trusts, recalls a 25 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,520 journey he made as a youth. My Pome had been appointed trustee by Missus 26 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,280 Kine for a large fortune which he recently acquired. It was her wish that 27 00:02:53,319 --> 00:02:58,080 I should take charge of this boy, this Charles Foster Caine, is it 28 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,599 not have done the little miss a case he does? That boy, Charles 29 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:07,879 Foster Kane personally attacked you after striking you in the stomach with a slave much 30 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,199 chair. And I shall read to the Committee of Prompents statement which I have 31 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,000 brought with me, And I shall then refuse to answer any further questions. 32 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:20,560 Mister Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by 33 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,520 the dangerous manner in which has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, 34 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:30,960 initiative and opportunity for advancement, is in fact nothing more or less than a 35 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:36,960 communist. That same month in Union Square, in the words Charles Foster Kane 36 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:42,800 r minus to every working man in a slave he is today what he has 37 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:50,599 always been, harvest will be a fatist. And still another opinion, Paine 38 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:57,360 urged his country's entry into one war, opposed participation in another swung. The 39 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:04,159 election to one American president at least spoke for millions of Americans, was hated 40 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:11,240 by as many more. For forty years appeared in Caine you sprint. No 41 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,800 public issue on which Caine papers took no stand. No public man whom Caine 42 00:04:16,879 --> 00:04:34,800 himself did not support or denounce, often support then denounce. Weie married vice 43 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:41,519 divorce, first to a president's niece, Emily Naughton, who left him in 44 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:49,160 nineteen sixteen died nineteen eighteen in a motor accident with their son, sixteen years 45 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:55,600 after his first marriage. Two weeks after his first divorce, Caine married Susan 46 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,759 Alexander Singer at the town Hall in Trenton, New Jersey, a wife to 47 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:10,680 one time opera singing Susan Alexander. Caine built Chicago's municipal opera house cost three 48 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:16,680 million dollars and see for Susan Alexander Kane have finished before she divorced him. 49 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:30,279 The still unfinished Xanadu cost no man, can say. Caine, holder of 50 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,480 mass opinion, though he was in all his life, was never granted elective 51 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:38,560 office by the voters of his country. But cain papers were once strong, 52 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,839 indeed, and once the prize seemed almost his. In nineteen sixteen, as 53 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,279 independent candidate for governor, the best elements of the state behind him, the 54 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:54,600 White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career, and suddenly 55 00:05:55,399 --> 00:06:01,720 less than one week before election defeat shameful, ignominious. If he'd got set 56 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,560 back for twenty years the cause of reform in the US, or ever canceled 57 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:15,000 political chances for Charles Foster Kane. Then the first year of the Great Depression, 58 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:24,439 Okaine paper closes cocaine in four short years collapse, eleven cane papers merged, 59 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:30,240 more sold, scrapped. Is that correct? Don't believe everything you hear 60 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:34,639 on the radio. Read the inquirer. How did you find business conditions in 61 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,839 Europe? How did I find business conditions in Europe? Mister bones with great 62 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:46,079 difficulty. I'm glad to be back with kay. I'm always glad to be 63 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:50,160 back, young man. I'm an American. I always been an American. 64 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,519 Anything else, and I was a reporter. We asked him quicker than that. 65 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,839 Come on, young fella, well what do you think of the chances 66 00:06:56,879 --> 00:07:00,279 for war in Europe? I've talked with the responsible is the great powers England, 67 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:04,079 French, Germany and Italy. They're too intelligent to embark on a project 68 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:08,079 which would mean the end of civilization as we now know it. You can 69 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:16,920 take my word for it. There'll be no Warkin helped to change the world 70 00:07:17,639 --> 00:07:23,439 what Caine's world now is history, and the great Yellow Journalist himself lived to 71 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:29,680 be history, outlived his power to make it alone, and is never finished. 72 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:35,680 Already decame pleasure Palace, aloof seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor 73 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:41,879 of new sprint, continued to direct his failing empire, vainly, attempted to 74 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,120 sway as he once did, the destinies of a nation that had ceased to 75 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:53,680 listen to him, ceased to trust him. Then, last week, as 76 00:07:53,759 --> 00:07:59,560 it must to all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane. No, 77 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:05,959 the words you just heard are the words that bring us into the world of 78 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,639 Charles Foster Kane, and it is a part of the opening scene from Citizen 79 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:18,959 Kane and nearly ten minutes long. It attempts to encapsulate the life of a 80 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:28,160 media titan, mogul, failed politician, and a man that had everything but 81 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:35,039 in reality had nothing that was real. Last week we looked at the making 82 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,960 of Citizen Kane in the controversy and pitfalls that surrounded it. This film was 83 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:48,240 released in nineteen forty one and tells the story of Charles Foster Kine, played 84 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:52,879 by director Orson Wells, a man that as a young child inherits a fortune 85 00:08:54,799 --> 00:09:00,559 and then amasses wealth, fame, prestige, and notoriety as a national media 86 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:07,559 mogul, but is missing love and is emotionally broken. Our next two clips 87 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:13,519 show what makes Cain such a compelling character in cinema. First, in a 88 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,519 conversation with his conservator, mister Thatcher, we hear the new newspaper man Cain 89 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:24,840 explain his view on running a newspaper. Then, in our second clip, 90 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:31,120 a middle aged Cain while running for governor shows his over the top delivery and 91 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:37,759 extreme self confidence. These scenes are important because they establish what makes Cain so 92 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:48,559 endearing and charming. Also, notice the commanding presence Caine carries the Spain off 93 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,240 Jersey. Co's not clearly your idea how to run a newspaper. I don't 94 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:54,840 know how to run a newspaper, mister Thatcher. I just try everything I 95 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,480 can think of. You know perfectly well, there's not the slight this proof 96 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:05,480 of this a modern off the Jersey Bernstein. I'd like you to meet mister 97 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,840 Thatcher, just Cleland. Mister Thatcher, my ex guardian. We have no 98 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,279 secrets from our readers, mister Bernstein. Mister Thatcher is one of our most 99 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,679 devoted readers. He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Enquirer since I 100 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:22,000 took over read the cable girls delightful in Cuba. Stop could send you prose 101 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,759 poems about scenery, but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. There 102 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,000 is no war in Cuba, signed Wheeler, any air. Yes, dear 103 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,759 Wheeler, you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war. That's fine, 104 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Mister Cares like myself Away. I came to see you about this campaign 105 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,519 of yours, I campaign against the Public Clensed Company. Mister Thatcher, Do 106 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,879 you know anything we could use against them? Still the college boy on John, 107 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,679 No, mister Thatcher, I was expelled from college a lot of colleges, 108 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:52,320 you remember, I remember, Charles. I think I should remind you 109 00:10:52,399 --> 00:10:54,039 of a fact that you seem to forgot. Yes, that's why yourself one 110 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:58,759 of the largest individual in the Public Clensed Company. Trouble is, you don't 111 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,960 realize you're talking to two people as Charles Foster Kane, who owns eighty two 112 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,200 thousand, three hundred and sixty four shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, 113 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,039 I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. 114 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,080 Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of 115 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,679 town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if 116 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,039 you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of one 117 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,879 thousand dollars my time. On the other hand, I am the establisher of 118 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:22,279 the Inquirer. As such, it's my duty, and I'll let you in 119 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,200 on a little secret. It's also my pleasure to see you at the decent 120 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:30,840 hardworking people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of moneymad pirates just 121 00:11:30,919 --> 00:11:35,720 because you haven't anybody to look after their interests. I'll let you in on 122 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:39,240 another little secret, mister thatcher. I think I'm the man to do what 123 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,960 you see. I have money and property. If I don't look after the 124 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,519 interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any money 125 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:52,039 of property. Yes, yes, well, I happen to see your financial 126 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,360 statement today, Charles, how did you now tell me? Honestly, my 127 00:11:54,440 --> 00:12:00,480 boy, don't you think it's rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this 128 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,559 empire that's costing you a million dollars a year? You're right, mister Thatcher. 129 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,080 I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a 130 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,159 million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year, 131 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,200 you know, mister Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year. 132 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:18,399 And I have to close this place in sixty years. And now Kine's 133 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:26,679 campaign speech. Now in complete control of the government of the state. I 134 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:33,559 made no campaign promises because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope 135 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:39,440 of being elected. Now, however, I have something more than a hope. 136 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:52,639 Jim gets Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. Every straw vote, 137 00:12:52,679 --> 00:13:01,000 every independent poll shows and I'll be elected. Now I can afford to 138 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:16,080 make some promises a working man, the working man, and the slung child. 139 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,759 No, they can expect my best efforts in their interests. The decent 140 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:26,039 ordinary citizens know then I'll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged, 141 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:43,600 the undefeated and they underfed another pop govern not. Yes, well, i'd 142 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:54,320 make my promises now if I weren't too busy arranging to keep them. Here's 143 00:13:54,399 --> 00:14:01,840 one promisomic and Boss Jim Getty's, how does I'll keep it? My first 144 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:07,320 official act is governor of the state will read to a point a special district 145 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:15,759 attorney to arrange for the indicement, prosecution and conviction abost Jim w get his 146 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,600 The main theme throughout this film is not Cain in his life, the power, 147 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,159 fortune, and fame that he carries. It is that this man is 148 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:41,480 emotionally bankrupt. His quest for control and love has disastrous consequences. That is 149 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:50,159 because he is emotionally unavailable and unwilling to commit to anyone emotionally outside of just 150 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:56,240 token things in gifts and money. In one of the most heartbreaking scenes of 151 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:05,679 this film, Cain confronts long time friend, supporter and reporter Jedediah Leland played 152 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,080 by Joseph Cotton, for writing a poor review of his current wife's Sopra. 153 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:16,399 In this scene, Leland explains what love is too Charles Foster Kane, and 154 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,919 how it is unlike what anyone else in the world would view as love. 155 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,000 What you are unable to see in this scene due to audio only is the 156 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:31,320 way Orson Wells and Greg Toland shot the scene to make Cain appear as a 157 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:37,639 giant. To do this, they cut a hole in the floor of the 158 00:15:37,759 --> 00:15:43,320 scene setting to lower the camera all the way down and shoot it upright for 159 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:50,759 a larger view of Cain. Well, you god drug too. Talk to 160 00:15:50,840 --> 00:16:06,240 me about as Alexander, don't. Father, I'm not as I've set back. 161 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:14,519 The sacred cause of reform is that it all right. That's the way 162 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:18,840 they wanted. The people have made that choice. It's obvious the people preferred, 163 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:22,600 Jim get is to me. You talk about the people as though you 164 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:26,480 own them, so they belonged to you. Goodness, As long as I 165 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:32,559 can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights as if you can 166 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:37,080 make them a present of liberty as a reward for services rendered. Jed. 167 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:45,799 Remember the working man, I'll get drunk too, Jedediah, it'll do any 168 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:48,960 good. I won't do any good. Besides, you never get drunk. 169 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:55,039 You used to write an awful lot about the working man turning into something called 170 00:16:55,240 --> 00:17:00,799 organized labor. You're not gonna like that one little bit when you find out 171 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,839 it means that you're a working man expects something as his right, not as 172 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:12,240 your gift. Charlie, when you're precious under privilege, you really get together, 173 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,680 Oh boy, that's gonna add up to something bigger than your privilege and 174 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:25,400 I don't know what you'll do. Sail away to a desert island, probably 175 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:30,720 and lord it over the monkeys. I won't worry about it too much, 176 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:33,920 Jed. It'll probably be a few of them there to let me know when 177 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:40,440 I do something wrong. You may not always be so lucky. Yeah, 178 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:45,039 very drunk, that's wrong. What do you care? You don't care about 179 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:51,519 anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love them so 180 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,519 much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your 181 00:17:55,559 --> 00:18:02,240 own terms. I promised it would be divulged if the influence of William Randolph 182 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:08,960 Hurst hindered this film. Sadly it did. Radio City Music Hall refused to 183 00:18:10,039 --> 00:18:15,720 take part in the premiere. Many cinemas, fearing that Hurst would sue them 184 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:22,319 for defamation, or refused to advertise their theaters just outright refused to show it. 185 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:27,640 Hearst papers, radio stations, and magazines would not advertise the film. 186 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,680 This led to the film losing an astounding one hundred and sixty thousand dollars following 187 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:42,200 its initial release. It nearly bankrupted RKO Pictures and led to Wells being labeled 188 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:48,960 as troublesome in never wielding the power he had on this film creatively for the 189 00:18:49,039 --> 00:18:56,480 rest of his career. Despite this, the film did receive critical acclaim. 190 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,440 The Washington Post called it the single most important film ever made. It was 191 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:10,559 nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Wells was nominated for Best 192 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:18,599 Actor and Best Director. The film only won won award for Best Original Screenplay 193 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,799 for Hermann, Mankowitz and Wells. When the Oscars aired on Hurstoned radio stations, 194 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,839 the award was edited out of the broadcast. However, in the sixties, 195 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,680 this film began to have a major resurgence. This allowed the film to 196 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:42,480 gain the widespread appreciation it did not get upon release. That appreciation carries through 197 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:48,000 to today. It is widely considered to be the greatest film ever made, 198 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:52,519 and in my opinion, it is. On a personal note, this film 199 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:59,599 led me to have an admiration for Wells and his works. It also led 200 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:04,000 me to seek a film minor while I was in college. I'm such a 201 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:11,759 fan of Wells that one of my most prized possessions is an autograph from orson 202 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:17,480 Wells. That is why I have chosen to honor Wells this month, my 203 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:25,759 birthday month, because without him in this marvelous, beautiful, heartbreaking, compelling 204 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:32,359 film. It's safe to say there would not be classic film reviews with Eric 205 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:37,240 Pilcher. I hope you join me next week, when our month long tribute 206 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:42,039 to Orson Wells continues with one of his most heralded performances ever in Carol Mann's 207 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:48,400 nineteen forty nine film The Third Man. To close this review, we will 208 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:53,559 hear a clip from the American Film Institute. We're a who's who of cinema, 209 00:20:55,119 --> 00:21:00,640 William Friedkin, Lawrence Fishburn, Norman Jewison, Richard Dry, Sidney Pollock, 210 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:07,240 Kevin Spacey, Peter Bogdanovich, Debbie Reynolds, Steven Spielberg, and another 211 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:14,359 personal favorite director of mine, Martin Scorsese. I'll explain why. In their 212 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,599 opinion, Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever For WM and H and Matt 213 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:33,799 Connorton unleashed, this has been a classic film review. Citizen Kane is the 214 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:40,039 most important greatest American film as far as I'm concerned. This is the gold 215 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:44,480 standard here. It's pretty hard to top Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane is the 216 00:21:44,519 --> 00:21:48,960 greatest movie ever made. He's not clearly your idea how to run a newspaper 217 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,599 I don't know how to run a newspaper, mister Betcher. I just try 218 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,799 everything I can think of. There's never been a film that I'm aware of 219 00:21:55,279 --> 00:21:57,400 that if you watch it for the one hundred and thirty eighth time, you 220 00:21:57,519 --> 00:22:03,559 can still see something new that you hadn't noticed before. I made no campaign 221 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,920 promises, because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of being 222 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:19,680 elected. Now I have something more than a hope. Jim Jim Gettis has 223 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:27,279 something less than a chance. Every single not just every scene, but every 224 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:34,240 shot has an idea. There's a concept and an idea being executed at every 225 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:41,759 second of that film. There's this extraordinary performance which people seem to take for 226 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,279 granted. I mean, Orson ages from twenty five to eighty five in this 227 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:52,640 movie, and he's totally believable in every phase of it. Rosebud Orson Wells 228 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:56,119 was brilliant. I mean, and that was like his first film and he 229 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:02,680 was twenty six years old. It is just one of the great movies ever 230 00:23:02,759 --> 00:23:04,720 made, and I think many people are going to agree it's just one of 231 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:33,000 the great American experiences. Throughout that jug, the citizen game will always be 232 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:38,119 something that demands attention and respect and admiration for another way of looking at the 233 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,680 world through the cinematic eye.