Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Character
Meticulous, earnest, prestige and grave.
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
69 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Sinceres.
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Cast
- Orson WellesCharles Foster Kane
- Joseph CottenJedediah Leland
- Dorothy ComingoreSusan Alexander Kane
- Ray CollinsJim W. Gettys
- George CoulourisWalter Parks Thatcher
- Agnes MooreheadMary Kane
- Paul StewartRaymond
- Ruth WarrickEmily Norton Kane
- Erskine SanfordHerbert Carter
- William AllandJerry Thompson/Narrator
Crew
- Orson WellesDirector
- Orson WellesScreenplay
- Herman J. MankiewiczScreenplay
- Gregg TolandDirector of Photography
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- Robert WiseEditor
- Orson WellesProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Both earnest, meticulous, grave.
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The English Patient 199669% alikeBoth earnest, grave, meticulous.
Hero 200268% alikeBoth earnest, grave, meticulous.
The Seventh Seal 195767% alikeBoth earnest, prestige, meticulous.
Amadeus 198466% alikeBoth earnest.
Touch of Evil 195866% alikeBoth earnest, grave.
The Virgin Suicides 200065% alikeBoth prestige.- To Pimp a Butterfly 201572% alikeAlbum · Both meticulous, earnest, prestige.
Mad Men 200766% alikeSeries · Both meticulous, earnest, grave.
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