“One of the worst movies of all time.”
Exactly.
“Sure, some innovative film techniques”
Really? I always thought the weird camera angles, the kind of things USC film students think are AWESOME!, viewer be damned, were one of the things that contributed to its unwatchability.
What else was innovative about it, do you think?
Not a fan of German Expressionism I take it? The use of sound was one of the most innovative things about it. Welles started in radio after all.
I really tried to understand why this was considered a "great" movie, and watched a documentary on the making of CK. May have been on the DVD. All I remember was the comments on the camera angles, where front to back the entire set was in focus.
They mentioned others, but they escape me, and I won't waste the time to check them out.
Natural dialogue where the characters talked over each other instead of stilted stagy one-person-at-a-time talking.
And the makeup transformations as Kane ages are astounding.
Bernard Hermann’s score is breathtakingly innovative...especially in the “Sallambo” opera scene where he deliberately over-orchestrates to make Dorothy Comingore’s singing sound pathetically weak and underwhelming.