Citizen Kane, up to no good.

Citizen Kane, starring Orsom Wells, was in my opinion a terrible movie. It was in black and white, which in some cases is good and can signify romance or something else, but in this case it just made the movie more boring than it already was. It seemed like it was supposed to be a serious film, but came off as comedy in some parts like when Charles Foster Kane was tearing his wife's room apart when she left him. His mechanical movements made it seem very fake and brought a lot of comedic value.

Another thing that bothered me, after I had watched the entire film, was the whole suspense to find out what "Rosebud" meant, and it only turned out to be his sled that he had as a child. I thought that it was going be something huge, revealing a big secret, but it wasn't which was disappointing.

The characters also seemed very 'made up' and stylized. Kane always reminded me of a penguin, and his second wife a poodle.

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I like characters that have more depth, and plot lines that have more depth, other than reporters searching for the meaning of one word, that ended up not really having an effect on anything.

I don't see it as a very memorable film, as explained clearly here by the guys in Kids in the Hall,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-LxmrFm40 I can honestly say that I've sat here for about half and hour trying to think of something I did like, but couldn't. There was nothing to like about this movie at all.

1. I believe that media is very important in my life. My dream career is a form of media. I also use media in my everyday life. I have grown up with it my whole life and probably could not live with out it.

2. Only one type of media do I feel passionate about, and it is photography. I just love how you can capture the perfect moment and be able to keep it forever with a photograph, or even keep it on a computer and edit it to make it look the way that you want. I also like the Internet, but I am not passionate about it. It's important to me in a different way because it allows me to keep in touch with my friends and family in an easier way. I am also able to play my favourite game which you can not really play without Internet. I guess that music is also important to me, because sometimes if I am in a bad mood, a happier song can cheer me up. I also like celebrating happy moments with music and it makes doing boring things like chores much better when the music is really loud going through the whole house.

3. I like most of our modern popular culture. I like the new technology that helps us communicate. An element of popular culture that I dislike is how iPods now have video cameras. I think that it's very unnecessary. You could just go an buy a camera, it would have much better quality and also take pictures. I use media for entertainment mostly, but also for practicing for a future career. I also use it for information, communicating, and shopping rarely.

4. Desert Island Choices

• One type of media that I enjoy is music. It's not my favourite, but I can still enjoy it on some days when I feel like listening to it. Some artist I like are Boys like Girls, Taylor Swift, Lights, Miley Cyrus, and The Fray. Some of my favourite songs right now are by these artists, and include Fifteen by Taylor Swift, Ice by Lights, How to save a life and You found me by The Fray and When I look at you by Miley Cyrus. My favourite instrument to hear is the piano, even though it sounds very depressing every song that is played on it. I just love the sound of it very much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wxOVn99FTE&feature=fvst
• Another type of media that I like is photography. This is definitely my favourite type of media. It speaks to me because of the fact that you can capture memories and things that are precious in life and be able to keep them forever. It is just beautiful to me. My favourite thing to photograph is flowers. I like that they are all unique and colourful.
• The third type of media that I enjoy is the Internet. I like how I am able to communicate with people that I'm not able to see often, or multiple people at the same time. I can also play games like Tetris, http://www.tetrisfriends.com/ You can also share photos and listen to music. Which reminds me, I should also charge my iPod.. I can also look up information that I need for school or life in general. I like using google especially to look up song lyrics that I can't seem to understand and it bugs me a lot, like to the extreme. :)