Citizen Kane - Speech

[FunUsernamesAreGone]

I'm going to say this in my high school student council speech tomorrow.

[rhersh2011]

The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner would be a great movie

[rhersh2011]

Faulkner, Hemingway, Robert Frost, Twain, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, best US writers

[rhersh2011]

New deal that's what we need out of this depression

[rhersh2011]

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten" John F. Kennedy and FDR with the new deal that' what we need right now worst economy since the great depression

[1999UTD]

its amazing how many people watch this and go "yeah!" instead of "oohhh..."

i cannot fathom how its possible that so many people miss the nazism presented in both his character and this scene

[mhirtes12]

Eerily enough, this scene reminds me of the big rally that Glenn Beck is holding for himself this week in Washington DC.

[idster7]

@mhirtes12 Orson Welles is so much sharper than Glenn Beck.

[kortexsirvasil]

@mhirtes12 The difference between Kane and Beck is that Kane is actually a pro-bluecollar idealist who gets increasingly more and more corrupted by his access to the power and by his personal life, both of which challenge his previously held views. He tries to be a moral character but fails because everyone is against him and he feels the need to fight against them, becoming less and less reasonable. To be continued.

[kortexsirvasil]

@kortexsirvasil .. Beck, on the other hand, has always been an illiterate moron who only appealed to the most idiotic part of the US electorate. So he never had to have any integrity because he never held any morals - unlike Kane, Beck is an actual populist.

[Miketheprofessor]

@kortexsirvasil - Have to love the way some critics on the left--who probably, and ridiculously, I might add, consider themselves intellectuals--who like to run down the right as possessing less than sound intellect invariably pepper their speech with invective (e.g., kortexsirvasil's use of "illiterate", "moron", "idiotic") to describe those with whom they disagee. They don't possess intellectual capacity to realize that such techniques are the very mark of an unsound intellect!

[kortexsirvasil]

@Miketheprofessor Not true. If we are not able to recognize the idiots amongst us and point them out, we are no better than them. The intellectual is able to tell that someone is an imbecile and say it out loud without fearing the consequences,.

[123loco1991]

@kortexsirvasil “The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that

a smart man (intellectual) knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

calling someone an imbecile is incredibly disrespectful however truthful it may be, its perhaps agood trait to be able to identify the soundness of anothers mind, however no intellectual (which to be honest is a bulls**t term in your usage of it) would stop people and say your an imbecile (with implication: in comparison to me.)