Kane & Orange
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Whole books could be and have been written on both Citizen Kane and A Clockwork Orange. Each unarguably rests among the elite of cinema lore and critical acclaim. Both shocked moviegoers alike, to the point where a powerful movement arose to bar Citizen Kane’s release and A Clockwork Orange was banned in many markets. Citizen Kane’s release came amidst a storm of controversy because its title subject was modeled on powerful media titan William Randolph Hearst. Hearst ran a smear campaign on the film in all his media and was almost successful in having the film barred from release. Nonetheless, his efforts were successful enough to have the film snubbed at the annual Academy Award’s ceremony (where the film was booed when announced), and RKO took control of Orson Welles’ next film The Magnificent Ambersons (many say the film’s greatness was seriously diminished by the studio-ordered forty minutes of cuts). Hearst’s biggest complaint was allegedly that the word “rosebud” used to weave the entire film together was his pet name for his wife’s, Marion Davies, private parts. Kubrick’s film created controversy because of its shocking depiction of violence and pornography. Nonetheless, Citizen Kane is often considered to be the greatest film ever made. As respected film critic C. A. Lejeune remarked, “Probably the most exciting film that has come out of Hollywood for 35 years. I am not sure it isn’t the most exciting film t
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the mixture of first-person and voice-over narration adds to the somewhat surreal atmosphere of both films.
The use of lighting is also effective in enriching each film. In A Clockwork Orange we see the teen-aged droogs walking through the dark streets with billy clubs. Harsh backlighting creates exaggerated shadows as they roam around en route to their next stylized act of violence. As the boys proceed to brutalize a drunken old street vagrant, they are interrupted by Billyboy and his droogs who are about to rape a young “devotchka.” The camera pans down from a proscenium of an abandoned opera house (representing the decline of civilization) while operatic screams and waltz music are heard in the soundtrack. When the thugs begin their brutalization of the old drunk, preferring violence to sex, the beating is extremely stylized and balletic, almost as if Kubrick is mocking the older Hollywood films with their choreography and stylized production numbers. The juxtaposition of violence and art (ballet movements, Rossini’s Thieving Magpie) creates conflicting emotions in the viewer and heightens the emotional appeal of the scene.
The camera angles, lighting and score of Citizen Kane are also used to heighten emotional appea
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Approximate Word count = 1931
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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