Cinema Chapter 12: Synthesis
What reason describes best why the acting in Citizen Kane is considered repertory in style?
508
Who is the only seemingly conventional character in the script?
516
The movie falls in the implicit range of ideological values?
519-520
This actor's brilliant performance provides considerable warmth to an otherwise cool and intellectual film.
Dorothy Comingore
Which famous film critic contended that Welles merely added a few polished touches to Mankiewicz's finished screenplay before filming the movie?
Pauline Kael
Cinematographer Gregg Toland chose to work on Citizen Kane because the veteran cinematographer thought he
be able. to learn something from the "boy genius"
Kane's argument with Susan over her disastrous opera debut reviews is cut according to what editing style?
classical conventions
Then as now, RKO studio's advertising emphasized the picture's
commercial appeal
The mixture of decency and corruption in the character of Kane is suggested by what kind of lighting?
contrasting lights
What considerations often determined the cunning editing strategies of the film?
cross-cuts ? (504)
Instead of shooting the exposition scenes in the normally efficient medium two-shot method in Citizen Kane, Toland and Welles photographed them using
deep-focus photography
In many respects, Citizen Kane is structured like a mystery story, a search to penetrate a great enigma. Welles is able to suggest this idea in the very opening sequence, through a series of
dissolves and traveling shots
In 1937 in New York, Welles joined forces with the aspiring theatrical producer John Houseman to
form their own company Mercury Theater
From a stylistic viewpoint citizen Kane is a masterpiece of
formalism
Each shot type in the film has an appropriate sound quality associated with it. Long- and extreme-long-shot sounds are
fuzzy and remote
How did Welles introduce most of the major events and people of Kane's life
in a brief newsreel shown early in the film
Wells's performance as Kane was
lavishly published
Welles was, ideologically speaking, a lifelong
liberal
Orson Welles's first love was
live theater
Kane production designer Van Nest Polglase and his assistant Perry Ferguson has a preference for what kind of sets?
monumental sets
Bernard Herrmann's musical score shows its sophistication by assigning ______________ to several of the major characters and events
musical motifs
A common exposition technique throughout fiction films of the 1930s and 1940s was to provide information through the use of
newspaper headlines
Why did Welles and his screenwriter have Kane mumble the word "rosebud" in his final moments of life?
note of suspense/no meaning to it
Welles frequently ____________ his dialogue, especially in the comical sequences.
overlapped
How was Welles viewed when he arrived in Hollywood in 1939?
resented
It's difficult to isolate the editing in this film because it often works in concert with the
sound techniques
Coming from the world of live theater, Welles was an expert at
staging action dynamically
In Citizen Kane, what sort of camera movements are generally equated with old age?
static camera
Why did Welles choose to use the flashback storytelling technique in Citizen Kane?
to sharpen the story line and infuse it with more dramatic urgency
