There are no gunfights, car chases, martial arts and, if there IS a topless scene, it happened while I was in the bathroom.
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They call it “Citizen” Kane, but you never get to see his long form birth certificate.
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He called his sled, “Rosebud”, which is not a sled name. Sleds have names like “Lightning”, “Flash” and “Frank Stallone”.
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Kane’s mansion, in the movie, was called “Xanadu”, later the title of a 1980 musical starring Olivia Newton John. Xanadu is considered one of the worst movies ever made because there are no gunfights, car chases, martial arts and, if there IS a topless scene, it happened while I was in the bathroom.
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The story is told mostly through flashbacks so, if they ever made a prequel to Citizen Kane, it WOULD BE THE EXACT SAME MOVIE!
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The movie is shot from so many odd angles that much of it looks as if it were filmed on a police body cam.
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Orson Welles looks like a really serious Spike Jones. Don’t know who that is? Well, let’s just say he looks like a heavy-set Leo Goercy…
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One of the messages of Citizen Kane is that money cannot buy you happiness; but, if I were rich enough to have a snow-globe in every room, I’d never stop smiling.
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Most critics say that, if they were stuck on a desert island, one of the DVDs they’d take with them would be Citizen Kane; but, only the Anniversary Release DVD that came with previously unseen footage and a free raft.
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The movie is shot in black-and-white so you really cannot tell if Charles Foster Kane ever gets jaundice. It might have explained his outburst at the opera house.
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I’ve never seen it, but on a totally unrelated topic, 10 subject choices of what not to create a statute of
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Hmmm… I might be able to do something with that. Any more statue photos?
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Depends what you want. I have a few which are very questionable. Send me a list and I’ll see what I have on the weekend 🙂
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Wasn’t one of them a tall junk-rabbit?
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Leo Gorcey playing Citizen Kane. Now there’s a movie worth watching!
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You’d have to slip Huntz Hall in there somehow…
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Even better.
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I liked Xanadu! I might still have the record album. Never seen Citizen Kane.
Probably should, though
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Usually, when I run down a movie, book or person, I feel the exact opposite; but, if you never see Citizen Kane, I doubt it will be a regret. Kind of slow, depressing… but hey! SLEDS!
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The line “Did you know that Rosebud was a sled?” is in the song ‘Homecoming Queens Got A Gun’ by Julie Brown, which is one of my favorites to Karaoke.
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Sadly, I learned it from a Charlie Brown comic… I did love Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun. Julie Brown was fun…
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I haven’t seen it either!
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It’s not as bad as I made it out to be but I didn’t think it was particularly brilliant, either.
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Maybe it would’ve been better without the hype?
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I can’t complain, Chelsea… One of my favorite books is hyped as one of the greatest books of all time… and I think it is. But, for many, after that hype, it is a big let down.
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