Welles vs. Hearst: The Story Behind Citizen Kane

[@theflorgeormix]

No wonder Orson was crippled creatively. He was a great actor though. Wish he did more projects. Kane is fascinating but grim.

[@XyzXyz-mm9vq]

@Speed Racer / The truth is ALWAYS grim.

[@deckofcards87]

The best films and stories often are

[@arpitdas4263]

Check out Chimes of Midnight if you haven't already. Easily Welle's best

[@aVerveQuest]

Sadly nothing eclipses for the effects of William Randolph first in America. We went from a country running and worrying about itself to a global Nanny because of hers to Roosevelt and a couple others, Andrew now so trapped by our intrigues that we will never dig out

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[@102ghostbuster]

legend for saving me research on my humanities homework

[@detlefschrempf77]

happy to help!

[@spactick]

Very well done piece Aaron. You wasted few words in describing precisely one of the monumental films of American cinema

[@gezin82]

So the meaning of rosebud is finally revealed🌹wow, lol. Who would have thunk it?

[@randyjohnson9760]

This is great man! Thank you!

[@davidecapps65]

So not much different than what the news is doing today.

[@eddiecampion2410]

Well done enjoyed that thanks

[@patrickward1470]

This was very very well done. Thank you for making this. Now I'm gonna go watch Mank - bye

[@cdsand45s]

excellent

[@adikravets3632]

5:37 watch "Mank"

[@suddenfootloss1337]

You should make more videos like this mate

[@samidejong106]

Really great video! I’m surprised this doesn’t have more views

[@Edward_T_Martin]

Really well done! An excellent and succinct summary.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Okay Now I understand why Hearst disliked him.

[@zeek7779]

Why couldn’t Welles make a comeback after Hearst died?

[@Peter_Siri]

He kinda did in an indirect way. His film received critical acclaim after the 50's, yet I wonder if it changed anything. With the digital landscape we have now, we are reliving a tale of a few people owning entire platforms under our noses... platforms that faciliate interactions b/w you and me.

[@insanejughead]

Fucking ROSEBUD!

[@spockboy]

Great video but your attempt at false equivalency "Welles and Hearst BOTH being geniuses" is nonsense. Hearst was a megalomaniac who lied and exploited the public to get where he got. Welles created great art and broke racial barriers. Welles told a story that not long after a Kane, a friendly cop warned Orson that there was a teenage girl waiting in his apartment with hidden photographers as a means to set him up. Through his government connections, Hearst also had Welles drafted into the military repeatedly even though each time he would fail the health test due to a bad back. Welles said in an interview that Kane was a social comment about a consumer society, can you imagine what he would say today?

[@detlefschrempf77]

Agreed. Describing Hearst as a genius is one of several regretful mischaracterizations in this now decade-old video. Thanks for watching.

[@spockboy]

@@detlefschrempf77 Still, very good work. : )

[@farhanullahshariff]

Who's here after mank?

[@kulturindustrie5361]

Deutscher Vortrag über Citizen Kane - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWqmdWeXqr-Zj9U

[@jemelmoore7329]

Whos bold enough to do a Citizen Kane type movie depicting Trump

[@mediamonarchyplus]

How do you satirize satire?

[@ahlishaholloway233]

I always thought Oliver Stone should make a movie about Trump, in the Nixon mold.

[@kevinclark9176]

What Wells did was bold because it went AGAINST the media. It took balls to attack the elite in such a way. Hence why his career was destroyed and he was blacklisted from Hollywood. Make a movie claiming Trump is like Hearst would be praised by all media and Hollywood. Not bold. In fact, that kind of proves the point that Trump is NOT the “Citizen Kane” in our time. He is the Orson Wells. Make THAT movie and you WILL be blacklisted from Hollywood. That’s bold.

[@jemelmoore7329]

@@kevinclark9176 Great Take..but tell me who would be the Citizen Kane of our Era..You could make a movie about? Bill Gates...Or the Omaha Oracle Warren Buffett..

[@kevinclark9176]

@@jemelmoore7329 I don’t know that their is a direct comparison but one of the closest could be Bloomberg. Owns his own newspaper and used it for propaganda when running his failed political bid for president.

[@theskycavedin]

His mistress WAS NOT based on Marion. And Rosebud is from the life of the screenwriter

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

Patty Kane Patty Kane, fakers' ban. Stop you a film as fast as you can.

[@randywhite3947]

That’s a load of nonsense Welles did not peak with Citizen Kane. He made about 3 or 4 better films.

[@adikravets3632]

Way more, but yeah

[@adikravets3632]

@@lednails They are

[@jcc6913]

I don’t think that he made 4 better films but I certainly agree that he managed to go way beyond Kane with a lot of the highs in his subsequent work. There’s a great quote from his great essay film F for Fake(really worth checking out, it’s a lot of fun)that applied to this “I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since”.

[@practicalwerewolf]

Meh. It's not a competition! It's not a game to be won! Orson Welles was an artist and activist while Hearst was a megalomaniac fascist. One made films and the other created harmful propaganda and was extremely proud of it. Orson Welles would've never buddied up with Hitler but the other admired him. Hearst would've loved TRUMP! The big orange D models his whole life after William Randolph Hearst (minus the lack of making his own money) but he's got the propaganda down to a T.

[@kevinclark9176]

All right until you got to Trump. The media today still follows the Hearst method. The media today loves fascism. Trump is the Orson Wells exposing them, hence why he is so hated by the media and Hollywood and they do everything to cancel him and destroy his career, just like they did to Wells.

[@christopherbrownmaaga4668]

24-80

[@adikravets3632]

8:37 big mistake saying that

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[@alwinwinter1645]

Kinda overrated