Steven Spielberg on CITIZEN KANE 

+Keyser Soze Spielberg considered Kubrick to be his idol but it's Welles who has inspired him the most. There are several shots in Spielberg's films which remind you of Welles' cinematography in Citizen Kane & The Magnificent Ambersons.

@@MrAkashvj96 I'd say that apart from Welles; Billy Wilder, John Ford, Howard Hawks and Frank Capra are much bigger influences on Spielberg than Kubrick. Apart from obviously "A.I." and aspects of "Minority Report" there's barely anything Kubrick in the rest of the Spielberg's filmography which is very Hollywood 'Americana.' While Kubrick's style and approach was very European.

I'm telling you weather you like it or not it's really change cinema ona technical stand point it really did and Orson Welles acting equals Brando dean did in 50s

Guigley why are you here if you not a huge fan of it?

Shut up

If you aren't a fan then greatness is not your taste.

@@samuelmorse784 If you read my comment, you'll note that I didn't say I wasn't a fan, just not the biggest fan.

I agree the dialogue is awesome in this film

What's the story here? That's so disappointing, if true.

Perhaps something in Welles work faded over the course of 40 sum odd years. Its gotta be hard when your best film is your first film.

Step by Step Photography and Video I love Welles’ quote ‘ I started at the top and worked my way down to the bottom’

I got the impression that when Spielberg and Welles met for lunch, that Spielberg wanted him to do an episode of Amazing Stories. And my take away was that Welles was really a jerk

Is it true what they say about Spielberg.

Orson took shots he liked from different films abroad since he was so well travelled from such a young age and put them in a film he actually didn't know what he was doing

Did you watch it?

It was pretty easy to hear lol

Brad Maurer ya i got it now -> "many people are gonna agree, it's just one of the..."

Second worst TV show ever.

@hyrolito: You mean . . . like most of Life (?)

Harry Potter Fanboy it is the greatest movie ever made it is kinda overrated

from our point of view maybe you're right, but back then nobody made pictures liked that. Welles introduced with Citizen Kane so many technics, things that all today's director do. Without him and this movie there wouldn't be a modern cinema, and that's why it's considered the greatest movie of all time.

Joe you have no idea what you are talking about....

also one of the most important movies ever made...

As much as I like Citizen Kane, I would have to agree with you on that.

That would be Jurassic Park, inside out or the shawshank redemption. Kane is arguably the best film ever made, certainly top 5

***** Who are you to tell me that my response is 'wrong'. It's my opinion and therefore cannot be wrong.

***** fine. 99.99999% of people see entertainment value as the primary motivation for watching a movie. But I never said anything about people 'solely' watching a movie for entertainment value. I've personally enjoyed watching some harrowing and thought provoking documentaries and I've educated myself in the process. Had I not found the movie engaging and ultimately 'entertaining' I would not have continued watching. I'm also interested to know what you think you can gauge about me from my two sentence comment, other than the fact that I found Citizen Kane boring?

***** Oh boy, there is so much wrong with your response. Of course I can choose to recommend a film or not. It's a recommendation based on my own personal experience. Not recommending something is not the same as recommending that someone does not watch it. I watched Citizen Kane because I consider myself to be a fan of film - and I hated it. I have every right to my own opinion, as do you. Just because we share a difference of opinion does not make my comment ignorant. If I hadn't watched the movie and said something like, 'I'm not going to watch it because it's black and white', feel free to label me ignorant. But I was commenting after having watched the movie, so was speaking from an educated position. Therefore my opinion is valid.

***** Read my comment again. I said 'I thought the film was boring' not 'The film is boring'. That clearly signifies that this is my personal opinion. Whether or not the film has a fanbase is completely irrelevant when expressing my opinion and the film's impact on modern cinema or it's influence on modern directors (which I'm not denying) is completely irrelevant when discussing my opinion of it as an entertainment tool - which I was. I do think that modern cinema offers vastly superior entertainment value. Of course it's aided by vastly superior technology but as an overall experience modern cinema can offer things that Citizen Kane could never hope to.

***** I didn't say it has no value. I'm sure that people interested in, or studying the history of film making would find it interesting. Maybe I should have written 'I don't know anyone that I would recommend it to' but it's true that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone for reasons other than film education. But you're also generalising by saying that the majority of people enjoy it, without foundation for your comment. Critics may like it, but the general public rarely agree with the critics. I'd be very confident that, if we were to take a cross section of today's society, the majority of people would rate it poorly. As to what about the film I disliked, I honestly can't remember much about it now. It's been almost month since I watched it and it was instantly forgettable. All I remember are my feelings after watching it, which were that it was boring and did not justify the hype.