Two Screens, One Dream

or My 2 Screens blog, I’m moving those film posts over to a new blog, http://twoscreens.tumblr.com/

It was just a hassle going back and forth between my normal blog and my film blog, and I couldn’t quite get a handle on doing singular actions just with my film blog, so I decided to make a completely separate account for it.

I’ll be writing all of the names down of the film blogs I’m following on here so that I can follow you on my new account as well. If you’re following 2 screens (not two screens, the new one), just know that it wont be updated from now on!

Sorry for the mess and confusion. If you’d like, I’d greatly appreciate it if you followed my new blog!

Cheers!

(btw, I don’t know if I made it clear, but I will still be using my salty lemon blog)

So, I don’t know if I’m even allowed to have this opinion, but I really don’t get why Citizen Kane is treated like cinephile porn material. Granted, I’ve only watched it once, and before I share my actual thoughts on it, I should watch it a few times more. In fact, that’s a great idea, except for the fact that I greatly dislike torturing myself with hours upon hours of a boring story about a man who lost his childhood, which I am all too familiar with in my own life. Also, please, no more makeup that looks like somebody just pasted glue all over the actors’ faces and told them to make a scrunchy face until it dried (that probably wont make sense to you unless you, like me, were one of those children who played with glue. A lot. In fact, all that glue exposure is probably why I thought that I should actually talk about this film in a public forum)… please.

One of the things that I did enjoy about Citizen Kane was the sound editing. The stuff you could hear in the background, behind the dialogue, was pretty cool. I’m thinking this was a technique/style that Welles brought with him from his radio days? Anyway, that was something I could appreciate. Also, the lighting was beautiful. I loved how a lot of the characters, particularly Kane and the reporters, were backlit. Damn, I need to go back to my notes…Oh, and the scene where Kane is getting is Gubernatorial speech on was really cool too, although, I always love those kinds of shots. We also spent a long time studying the deep focus of this scene below, as well as the positioning of the actors in the frame. Very cool once you’ve broken it down.

Honestly, I feel like such a retard even talking about this film. It’s so beloved by people who are a part of the film community, as well as the people outside of it, that I couldn’t help but cringe while writing this whole damn post. I’ll be putting Citizen Kane on my Netflix list so that I can watch it again, of course. I’d feel horribly guilty if I didn’t.