Topics / Cinematography & lighting
Composition & framing
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power theme, the motif that runs through the movie. The other thing he did was he showed the audience this sequence we're looking at without sound and then he talked about how music changes your perception of time. If you watch this without sound it seems to go by incredibly slowly but the pace becomes more interesting with the music in the background.
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as inside the union is being dissolved. In the foreground, we've got the extraordinary Agnes Moorehead looking a little like Whistler's mother here, and Harry Shannon as the father in the distance, and George Coulouris here in the middle.
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an astonishing moment. She is one of the great actors of all time, in my view. And she's only got a brief role in this film, but she makes a completely indelible impression. Notice how her head towers over the two men in the background. Also, now we're going to go outside, the camera panning. And it's amazing to do that within the same shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. And I've always been struck by the fact that Charles Foster Kane looks like a little brat.
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