Citizen Kane

My favorite aspect about the movie was the elaborate setting and "costumes". The overall theme of the movie is wealth and I think this movie did the best in the showing it off. I usually am accustomed to seeing fancy cars or high priced villas but to see such display of massive wealth with all the statues and paintings was truly a sight. The shot where they're in the Xanadu mansion and Susan is doing a puzzle is one of the best examples. The sheer size of the fire place and rooms are caverns of wealth in themselves. This is a perfect example of Mise-en-scene with all the high class clothing and elaborate settings. The crane shot in the end of the movie is another tribute to not only wealth but creativity. To get all of those pieces together and to film over them was revolutionary for that time. Maybe not the crane shot but the sheer magnitude at which the screen was filled. This movie was a great and intriguing movie that even gave big budget movies today a run for their money.