Raising ‘Kane’ Over the Orson Welles Film and Other Classics
In Kenneth Turan’s sidesplitting parody of a college freshman’s first crack at Welles’ masterpiece, one sentence stood out:
“Ultimately, perhaps, the greatest joy of ‘Citizen Kane’ lies in the sad fact that a story as complex and psychologically nuanced as the one (Herman J.) Mankiewicz and Welles came up with almost never gets this kind of vivid, tour de force visual treatment, and special-effects-heavy films (which ‘Kane’ clearly is) are just about never this intellectually provocative.”
Turan’s gift for mimicking the overblown prose of a bright but hopelessly insecure film student is nothing short of breathtaking.
MONTE MONTGOMERY
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