tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330431430608827222.post3863693366646615901..comments2023-07-07T06:18:07.988-07:00Comments on Queering the Closet: Queer Review: Citizen Kane (1941)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14470325503788056122noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330431430608827222.post-53073318282616015132014-06-27T19:25:03.611-07:002014-06-27T19:25:03.611-07:00It's not correct that nobody was is the room t...It's not correct that nobody was is the room to hear Kane whisper Rosebud. The butler Raymond has a line in the movie telling a reporter that he heard Rosebud used twice. During the rampage scene after Susan leaves and during the death scene. This means Raymond was in the room at the time of Kane's death.<br />Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632799328766348731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330431430608827222.post-32163735288680255122011-10-05T13:49:35.871-07:002011-10-05T13:49:35.871-07:00Thanks for your comment Scott. Like I said, I wou...Thanks for your comment Scott. Like I said, I would not label it the "greatest movie of all time" nor is it my personal favourite. What I liked the most about it is that each shot is it's own metaphor in miniature and yet still part of a cohesive whole.<br />-JeremyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470325503788056122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330431430608827222.post-76376245362922403202011-10-05T07:00:51.661-07:002011-10-05T07:00:51.661-07:00There is a lot of greatness about CITIZEN KANE, to...There is a lot of greatness about CITIZEN KANE, to be sure, but can anyone really call any movie "The Greatest Film Ever Made?" They hung that tag on GONE WITH THE WIND for a long time despite several obvious flaws: overlength, a racist script that was dated even at the time the movie was released, and the influence of too many directors causing the middle portion of the film to be quite uneven.<br /><br />I tend to give KANE the highest marks for its technical brilliance, and the actors are all first-rate, but I saw it once and I would not sit through it again for love or money because the middle portion of the film, in which Kane tries to turn his mistress Susan Alexander into an opera star despite the fact that her voice is perfectly dreadful, is an extremely unpleasant experience for me as a musician; it is rather like listening to the sound of the dentist's drill.<br /><br />(That being said, it is a tragedy that Dorothy Comingore did not become a bigger star; her role was by far the most difficult one in the film and she should have gotten an Oscar for it.)Scott Amundsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15721641071736768883noreply@blogger.com