I don't get it

I own memobilia from that movie.
I own the Cane from Citizen Kane.

>oxygen is trumps favorite gas
please drop that too

>yellow papers
do you have that yellow press political cartoon with the proto-chad vs virgin meme

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Holy fuck, do memes originate from the Jungian concept of a collective unconscious?

You mean this?
>youtube.com/watch?v=aeQOJZ-QzBk
It's fucking funny. He nearly gets it. He's someone who's experienced the same wealth and power that Kane did and sees the sorrow inherent in it. But he doesn't fucking get the ending. His solution: "Get a better wife!"

Fucking brilliant.

BANE?

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beauty = good, ugliness = evil is arguably the oldest meme of all time

I think you'll just find people haven't fucking changed since the end of Cavemen days. There's also this weird thing where the same idea can seemingly occur to two different people at the same time. It's hard to say why though, something in the air maybe? Maybe they're reacting to the same thing entering culture?

I'll put it like this the same day Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone another guy (Elisha Gray) came into the same patent office an hour or two later with the same invention but it was too late. Hilariously Elisha had apparently invented the telephone years beforehand but didn't think it would be of any use so had sat on it until that day.

I think there's just some ideas that float around and some people are lucky enough to catch them and use their skills to make something with them.

same with calculus and evolution through natural selection

Based Trump

Also worth noting that Welles was a badass. He'd become famous by that point through radio where did a version of War of the Worlds. What was innovative about his version was that it told the story as a news broadcast, as if an alien invasion where actually happening. Kinda a precursor to found-footage Blair Witch shit. However as no one had heard anything like that before a shitload of Americans actually thought aliens where invading and ran out their houses in a mass panic. It was such a big story the next day even Hitler commented on it, saying Americans were fucking stupid.

The success of it got the attention of Hollywood and Welles was able to get probably the greatest contract the studio system ever gave a director: giving him full creative control. That's why Kane looks, sounds and feels like nothing else made at the time. Unfortunately the smear campaign W.R. Hearst did on the picture meant it wasn't a big hit and Welles never got full creative control ever again. The Magnificent Ambersons, his followup, was a far more ambitious and possibly revolutionary film. But the studio took it away from him in the editing booth and completely gutted and reworked the final act. As a result Welles never tried to make another complete masterpiece again. He kept making movies but they were never as good as Kane again.

The more things change the more they stay the same

he was like trump. to defeat the evil elites, hires evil elites; but they change him instead

I dunno that shot where the camera swoops up the building, goes through a tiny gap in the neon sign, phases through the skylight and then goes into a long take in one unbroken shot was still impressive to me. It's obvious now how they got the camera through the skylight, that's just a series of quick dissolves but the camera going through the tinniest gap in the sign blew my mind. How the fuck did they do that? Found out that the sign actually split in two once the camera got close enough. It's all magic tricks and stagecraft and misdirection. Very old school but still effective and in all honesty pretty impressive.