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had his own media empire, and Welles had worked for the March of Time, and he's doing a pretty accurate parody of this. Yeah, it's even the prose style, you know, which had a ways of turning the sentences kind of backwards, you know, is even, that's imitated. Yes. And the guy who plays the reporter, William Alland, is the one who's sort of imitating the guy who did the narration, which was Van Voorhis.
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But I think that that's really what the point of the original story is. And we don't get that in Citizen Kane, really. Yeah, to the extent that the Bernstein section mirrors Bernstein, it's because it's memories of a happier time. And he's not going to be the narrator of the darker versions of Kane that we see as the film goes along. So, I mean, in fact, all the versions that we get of Kane are considered accurate and truthful.
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