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Citizen Kane Citizen Kane scene analysis The Picnic Scene and the Rise of Susan In an era in which the movie studio was king, in a business where it was prudent to tread lightly about the powerful, Orson Welles took RKO Radio Pictures for the publicity ride of the century in 1941 with project number 281, the now venerable, but then volatile, epic Citizen Kane. A not-so-subtle jab at newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane illustrates the proverbial rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane, a character whose story so incensed Hearst that a smear campaign ensued to such a degree that the very mention of Citizen Kane at the 1942 Academy Awards was met with boos from the audience. In spite of its initial reception, the film persevered and has become one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time with its simple and spectacularly well-executed story. Kane, sent away from home at an early age to live with a banker who would manage his inherited fortune, led a life of quiet loneliness, searching for the love and devotion of those around him, becoming a father figure to the nation through his newspapers. Kane felt deprived, he kane, susan, scene, tent, shot, love, argument, while, shots, screams, kane’s, even, during, wife, screaming, picnic, citizen, almost, within, welles, susan’s, sound, shadow, really, one, movie, made, low, lost, life, important, first, film, every, completely