Citizen Kane

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hey. I just said that.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

SHIT

Unbelievable.

 

[kotori]

I love the humor, too

I've seen the movie about 30 times, and found something new each time. Last time I saw it I noted that the first Christmas gift Kane gets away from home -- is a sled. Kane receives it with a frown. Just another reminder of the new life completely replacing the old.

There are some great "thow away lines" in there, but you're right, DCL, about all the nuances. It was terrific.

There's one scene I've always been fond of, where Bernsterin is the CEO, and tells the story of the girl he saw on the Hoboken Ferry in 1896, for just an instant. . . it reminds me a lot o Morgy's sig line, or vice versa.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I love that story. It always reminds me of a girl I saw on a subway train once in the Times Square station. It was an Express and pulled up to the platform, and I saw her sitting in one of the cars. She was perfect -- to me anyway. There was something so smart and sexy and simple about her. If you had asked me to take my "type" and build her from scratch, it would have been her, incarnate. The doors opened and I had an urge to go sit next to her, even though I was waiting for the Local train. Before I had time to decide the doors closed and the train screeched away. I've never forgotten her. Weird how much that paralells the story in Kane. I think many people have a story like that. I think that's why so many people love that speech.

 

[kotori]

Nice pants

Sound like a "Dockers" commercial from a couple of years ago--did you write that?

Hey, I just read yesterday that there's a new movie coming out soon about Hurst, Davies and some producer who died mysteriously on Hurst's yatch. Edward Hermann and Kirsten Dunst (among others). Any previews, Dixon?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You mean "Hearst"? As in "Patty"? No, I haven't heard anything about that. Sounds interesting. Does Dunst show her rosebud?

 

[kotori]

Yes

sorry for the misspelling. Must have been thinking ahead to the "u" in "Dunst." If she does, it wasn't mentioned in Premier. I think the release date is in April.