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Citizen Kane What does it take to be considered the “greatest American film” made' This question can be discussed upon for hours, but when it comes down to the crux of the matter, originality in camera and lighting techniques, as well as suspense, are what characterize a great film. In 1941, a 25-year-old named Orson Wells produced his first movie that is now considered one of the greatest American films ever. Citizen Kane broke down every frontier, surpassing films of its time through the use of camera techniques, setting, scene transitions, soundtrack, and suspense. Orson Wells is renowned in the way in which he combines camera techniques along with lighting and sound. Citizen Kane opens in a mystifying way, with suspenseful music narrating the changing of the settings. The minute the screen lights up, the audience is immediately in for one hundred and nineteen minutes of complicated camera movements that had never been seen before. The greater part of the film takes place in a flashback, as the reporters try to assemble some sort of story as to what “rosebud”, Kane’s final words, mean. With every new person that is interviewed, another point-of-view is outlined. Wells uses reflection film, camera, rosebud, kane, new, wells, lighting, each, during, citizen, way, techniques, suspense, snow, scene, one, audience, viewer, movie, greatest, great, films, considered, childhood, charles, american, years, words, upon, two, time, through, thompson, technique, takes