Sources

Here are some of the Sources that I got my information from:
www.Wikipedia.com
www.imdb.com
www.filmsite.org

Rating Scale

This is my Rating Scale:

0 to 10 rating scale

0- God awful, not even worth looking at anything for this movie

1- Awful, not worth watching

2- Terrible

3- Not Good at All

4- Not Good

5- Ok, but never watch again

6- Ok, maybe watch again

7- Not bad, But not great

8- Pretty Good

9- Great

10- THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE KNOWN TO MAN

Citizen Kane

On the March. Citizen Kane, the world's richest man has died, leaving behind his great fortune of statues, pictures,painting, mansion, and a castle he created himself. An Empire as large as Genghis Kahn's but only in News. He created his own opinion and made everyone who read or heard his news. He was a man who controlled the masses, yet he tried to fight for them.

He was a very tragic, yet quite intriguing character. Charles Foster Kane, a man with money, property, and literally anything he could have wanted. But it was his dying words were the sum of the man. A man that is missing something essential to his life. Orson Welles did a superb job of playing the man besought with true guilt and anguish, because he falls short of his goals as a human being. He also did a great job directing the movie, it is in Black and White, which i don't really like, but that is only a minor detail. The real genius of the movie is that it's a great big flashback. It tells the different viewpoints of the people who knew Kane the best.

The movie starts out with the end of Kane's life, his dying words, "Rosebud." The press gets a hold of it and tries to find out what its meaning. So they try to find the truth behind the word. They first start with how his childhood was. It flashes back to when he was boy living at a border house, where his parents had to give him up to a very wealthy business man in exchange for a gold mine and $15 or $50, 000 a year. They do but he doesn't go without fighting the man. That's what CF Kane was born to do, or so he thought. He was on the side of the people, taking down the trusts with a paper that told the truth. He even had a Code of Ethics of some sort, but soon it got out of hand with the true taste of power, the power of popular opinion.

It got extremely out of hand and he soon became the richest man in America, if not the world. He wanted power and he wanted everybody to love him, but only on his terms. He wanted they're opinion to be his opinion. He got that, but at a very heavy cost. Love was the cost, he couldn't have anyone love him because he was in love with himself too much and this lead to his downfall, and his lonely end to his life."That's all he ever wanted out of life, it was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Oh, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly!" Jeb Leland(Joesph Cotton), a close friend

I really liked this movie, the cinematography is stunning, without color it enhances the power of the words and the context of the situations that are portrayed. The actors are great, especially Orson Welles. The movie brings up some questions that are interesting; How does one with so much power and wealth be lonely? Can materialism lead some down the path of loneliness? With power comes the power to bring down "the man', why didn't he do that? Why was Rosebud so important to him?

I'd give this movie a 9/10, Great movie and i hope to see it again. Just a great movie.

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind, looked as though it was to be a very bad movie, because generalities have shown me so. But I found this movie extremely enjoyable, for it's time(circa 1939) its cinematography is absolutely stunning, the storyline is great, and the characters are memorable. The story is about a civilization that is about to be turned to dust, The South at the time of the Civil War. The mix of romance, war, drama, and humor, makes this movie a movie for the ages, and gets a 9.5 out 10 rating from me.Victor Flemming's portray of the South is Beautifully done, and it's people are to the T. The movie itself brings relevant questions from the Civil War to any era after it. How do we treat minorities? What is love? How do we deal with the loss of love and loved ones? Why do we love? All are brought up in this movie and are very powerful questions indeed.

The Movie follows the trials and tribulations of a young Southern Belle named Scarlet O'Hara(Vivien Leigh). At the beginning of the movie, Scarlett is secretly in love with a man named Ashley Wilkes(Leslie Howard), but He doesn't love her back. Soon at a party at the Wilkes' plantation Scarlett finds out that Ashley is to marry his cousin, Melanie Hamilton(Olivia de Havilland). Scarlett is Furious with Ashely and tells him that she loves him, but she is turned away. Then Scarlett finds a new man named Rhett Butler(Clark Gable, my favorite character in the movie) his wit and charm has caught her eye, but she is still in love with Ashely. After her run in with Rhett and Ashley, the plantation goes into an uproar, because the war has started. All the men go off to enlist and fend the Great South. So distraught over the loss of Ashley's love, Scarlett rushes into marriage with his cousin, Charles Hamilton(Rand Brooks). After a couple weeks of fighting, Charles is lost and Scarlett in "mourning". Wanting to get out of Tara(Her Plantation) she goes to Atlanta to a fundraiser for the troops, where she is the talk of the town because she is showing her face to the public, but she doesn't care. While there she meets again Captain Rhett Butler, she is quite surprised and seems to be falling in love with him, but Rhett's rougher charm doesn't catch hold. At the end of the night though Rhett gets what he wants, a dance with Scarlett.

Slowly but surely the South is crumbling, Scarlett is forced to stay in Atlanta to help the injured and dying. But while there Melanie is pregnant and too weak to deliver a baby by herself. Scarlett, and her sevant Prissy(Butterfly McQueen, a horrible character because of her "nails-on-chalkboard" voice) have to deliver it themselves. They do, but Melanie is very weak and they transport her to Tara, where on the way Rhett decides to enlist into the badly beaten Southern ranks. When the women return to Tara, they find out that Scarlet's Mother has died and the plantation has fallen into a state of ruin. Just before the intermisson, yes this movie is that long, Scarlett tells the world that she will do anything in her power to regain her wealth and never go hungry again.

Really the rest of the movie is way too good to give away, so I won't. It's the tale of Riches to Rags back to Riches, Love is lost and Love is found. One comes to hate or love certain characters(Rhett Butler), and this movie truly is one of the best movies that I've seen. So to end, all that I will say is that, "Frankly, This movie was Damn Good"