On The Water Front Questions

1. I think that he's mostly hard headed , brave and he also is very strong. I think in group loyalty you draw the line when you have to take responsibility in your actions. Meaning things that mean something and are going to affect you come first then a gang comes next.

2. He articulates the code he goes and lives by on the mobs expectations. He fallows the mobs rules through it all but still keeps his own priorities on track. Mainly he fallows the mob. He begins to question it because he has other things to take care of but yet he doesn't want to let anyone down.

3. Terry and Edie went way back since forever. They were friends very good ones too. She sees the good in him, cause the remet at the church and he got her out so she wouldn't get hurt. She brings out the good in him. They give eachothers trust and bring out one another's qualities.

4. He did really good on capturing the real feel. The capture doesnt show any hollywood characteristics. The method acting and natural lighting contributes to films realism. Kazan showed a diff. kind of camera work.

5. Brando strengths as an actor is that he uses his body language to portray what hes saying rather than actually saying what he wants to. The roles hes best suited for is the ones that acts like a bad boy role. He has the roles that put more emphasis on "bad".

Citizen Kane Questions 11/17/10

1: I think that all of the different points of view agree with each other. The only different thing would have been between people. I think Kane is still somewhat of a mystery but we get a general idea of what kind of person he was.

2: He wants everyone to love him. He wants love from the readers of his newspaper, from his political supporters, from his second wife, and from life. He buys there love, and that stands in the way. He wasn’t successful in the end. Both his wives left him, and his friend from the newspaper. And he wasn’t elected. He was screwed.

3: He built a newspaper empire in order to reach out to people so that they would love him. He built things for people just to win there love. These things that he built brought him happiness. He got to reach out to people but his staff and eventually readers dont want him. Susan didn’t want to be forced to sing.

4: At the end of the movie, “Rosebud” was a word on his sleigh as a child. The last thing he was doing before he was taken from his family by the banker was playing on his sleigh.

6: For the newspaper, Orson Welles wants to show us that the people of the newspaper lie. Kane wants to let the readers of the inquirer to know that he was going to tell all of the news honestly and after a couple years he goes back.

7: You can see people in the background and know what they do in the other scenes. Also it helps when someone is walking to or from the camera there like getting important or not important.

8: I think that Kane has an urge to collect things because he feels that he had so much taken away from him early in his life. At a young age he was taken away from the things that attracted him. So he was happy to have all these things again.

10: I think that Kane did these things to himself. So i dont feel bad for him. He made people not like him, he tried to buy people’s love. So he deserved he to lose everything.