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- Kane allows him to transfer to Chicago, effectively ending their friendship. Emily divorces Kane shortly afterward, and dies two years later, along with their son, in a car accident.
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These faults eventually cause Kane to lose his paper, fortune, friends, and beloved second wife, Susan. Thompson, the reporter, never does find out what Kane meant by "Rosebud." Giving up the quest, Thompson is leaving Kane’s abandoned castle, Xanadu, when the camera pans a scene of workers burning some of Kane’s less valuable possessions.
Kane is dead when the film begins, and we learn about him only through the accounts given by his old friends and lovers. Each person has a different perception of Kane, and his or her memories are not fully reliable.
Gettys blackmails Kane, meeting with him and his wife at Susan's apartment, but Kane refuses to drop out of the race despite Gettys' leverage. The scandal goes public and Kane loses the election decisively.
In one of the most effective sequences in the movie, a montage of breakfast table scenes traces the breakdown of their marriage over a period of years. She and Kane separate after she finds out about his mistress, and a few years later she is killed in a car accident along with their only child, a son.
Back at the hospital, Leland surmises that Charles Foster Kane finished writing the terrible review about his own wife's debut because he wanted to prove to Leland that he was an honest man; Kane always had something to prove.
Dec 20, 2010 · His second wife, Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore), was a singer. He even created her an opera house, but to no avail, her talent just wouldn’t do. As an old, balding Kane is wheeled around through his gardens, the narrator continues: “Alone in his never finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed.”
Jan 30, 2022 · Citizen Kane is the story of its eponymous main character, Charles Foster Kane, told through the recollections of his friends and family after his death. Investigative journalist Jerry Thompson visits Kane’s ex-wife, reads the memoirs of his banker turned guardian, and conducts interviews with his estranged best friend and former business ...
