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Quarto potere

Titolo originale: Citizen Kane
  • 1941
  • T
  • 1h 59min
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Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Quarto potere (1941)
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    • Orson Welles
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Herman J. Mankiewicz
    • Orson Welles
    • John Houseman
  • Star
    • Orson Welles
    • Joseph Cotten
    • Dorothy Comingore
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    8,3/10
    480.717
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    POPOLARITÀ
    1774
    137
    • Regia
      • Orson Welles
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Herman J. Mankiewicz
      • Orson Welles
      • John Houseman
    • Star
      • Orson Welles
      • Joseph Cotten
      • Dorothy Comingore
    • 1.7KRecensioni degli utenti
    • 222Recensioni della critica
    • 100Metascore
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  • Film più votato #108
    • Vincitore di 1 Oscar
      • 16 vittorie e 13 candidature totali

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    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    • Kane
    Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten
    • Jedediah Leland…
    Dorothy Comingore
    Dorothy Comingore
    • Susan Alexander Kane
    Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead
    • Mary Kane
    Ruth Warrick
    Ruth Warrick
    • Emily Monroe Norton Kane
    Ray Collins
    Ray Collins
    • James W. Gettys
    Erskine Sanford
    Erskine Sanford
    • Herbert Carter…
    Everett Sloane
    Everett Sloane
    • Mr. Bernstein
    William Alland
    William Alland
    • Jerry Thompson
    Paul Stewart
    Paul Stewart
    • Raymond
    George Coulouris
    George Coulouris
    • Walter Parks Thatcher
    Fortunio Bonanova
    Fortunio Bonanova
    • Matiste
    Gus Schilling
    Gus Schilling
    • The Headwaiter…
    Philip Van Zandt
    Philip Van Zandt
    • Mr. Rawlston
    Georgia Backus
    Georgia Backus
    • Miss Anderson
    Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon
    • Kane's Father
    Sonny Bupp
    Sonny Bupp
    • Kane III
    Buddy Swan
    • Kane - Age Eight
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      • Orson Welles
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Herman J. Mankiewicz
      • Orson Welles
      • John Houseman
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      The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend Jedediah Leland and down at weaker characters like Susan Alexander Kane. This was a technique that Orson Welles borrowed from John Ford who had used it two years previously on Ombre rosse (1939). Welles privately watched the movie about forty times while making this film.
    • Blooper
      During the picnic scene towards the end, Welles had to shoot against a back-projection because a location shoot was too costly and time-consuming. The stock footage used for the exterior was taken from King Kong (1933), hence on closer inspection the four birds that fly by are in fact very definite pterodactyls. RKO told Welles to take the pterodactyls out of the shot, but he liked them, and decided to keep them.
    • Citazioni

      Mr. Bernstein: Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      In a very rare move the director's credit is shown on the same card as the cinematographer's. This was Orson Welles's personal decision to show his thanks to cinematographer Gregg Toland for his enormous contributions to the film, meaning equal rights.
    • Versioni alternative
      The Italian-language version cut an overwhelming number of scenes, leading to "complete" versions of the film to be circa half of the time in English and only the remaining half in Italian.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in The Projectionist (1970)
    • Colonne sonore
      It Can't Be Love
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      Written by Charlie Barnet and Haven Johnson

      Arranged by The King Cole Trio

      Performed by Raymond Tate, Buddy Collette, Buddy Banks, CeePee Johnson, and Alton Redd

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    One of the Greats!

    "Citizen Kane" is possibly the most acclaimed film that I know of. It's been called the "greatest film of all time" by a lot of film critics, polls, magazines, etc.

    The film is a chronicle of the life of Charles Foster Kane, a fictional character based off of William Randolph Hearst, a famous newspaper publisher. The film's structure is highly unconventional, in which Kane's life is revealed through interviews with various people who knew him well, making a majority of the film a series of flashbacks.

    On both a technical and story level the film is quite influential. The story, itself, becomes far more bleak and dark than a lot of the films coming out at that time (at least in the US, that is), and it completely insults a very powerful figure (that being William Randolph Hearst) who was still alive at the time, and fought to get the film banned (just watch the documentary "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" and the drama "RKO 281", two films that are also quite great).

    On a technical level, there's many extremely inventive techniques being developed here. There's one particularly interesting low angle shot that was made so low because Welles actually drilled a hole in the floor of the set. Other than that shot, you mine as well look at every single other shot or scene if you want to see some technical innovation. You could just analyze it frame by frame if you want to attempt to see all of its influential visuals, and you still may not have truly seen all of the detail. As Roger Ebert said on the commentary, "Citizen Kane" is actually a special effects picture. The main difference between this film's special effects and the special effects in a film like "Jurassic Park" (another greatly influential film) is that the special effects in this film are kind of hidden, but nonetheless powerful in their own right.

    A lot of people may call it the #1 most important film of all time, but I have to disagree. While it certainly is one of the most important films of all time, one really needs to go back to the silent era to find all the TRULY most important films. Films like "A Trip to the Moon", "The Great Train Robbery", "The Birth of a Nation", and "Intolerance". Welles, himself, actually did say during his introduction of D.W. Griffith's classic "Intolerance" that that film deserves all the credit for a lot of modern cinema's techniques.

    However, with all its technical innovations that have been talked on and on about time and time again, I've heard very little about how ENTERTAINING the film is. "Well that's because it isn't entertaining!" I can hear some guy who had overly high expectations (and gave the film 1 star with a lengthy review entitled "Disappointing") shout. Well, you're wrong, the film is quite entertaining! Sure, there's no action sequences, explosions, Adam Sandler doesn't play his twin sister, and Kevin James doesn't wackily fall down 420,000 times, but there IS true human emotion, iconic lines of dialogue, and a truly compelling imagery that ends with one of cinema's greatest twists! There was actually a time in my life in which I watched "Citizen Kane" nearly once a day because I enjoyed it so much! I genuinely watched it TWICE in one day just because of how much I enjoyed it, which is very rare with me.

    If you're looking for the greatest film of all time, maybe you should lower your expectations a tad bit and just experience the film for what it is.
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    Dettagli

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    • Data di uscita
      • 25 novembre 1948 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Sito ufficiale
      • Official Facebook
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Italiano
    • Celebre anche come
      • El ciudadano Kane
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Busch Gardens - S. Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California, Stati Uniti(Xanadu Grounds, demolished)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • RKO Radio Pictures
      • Mercury Productions
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    • Budget
      • 839.727 USD (previsto)
    • Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
      • 1.627.530 USD
    • Lordo in tutto il mondo
      • 1.707.754 USD
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      • Black and White
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