Citizen Kane "Rose Bud" Powerful Scene in the Classic Film

[ChaoticKill248]

Anyone whoever thinks of The Room during this scene has never truly seen a good, quality, film. They probably think transformers is an original work of art, too. They also probably think George Lucas is an artist, and James Cameron made the greatest movie on earth. Is it so strange that at this point: im choosing to be a hermit?

[Kherian888]

@ChaoticKill248

Fuck this edge of Global Foolness !

[USAthroughout]

I have only looked up clips of classic movies like this and yet I have newfound respect for them such as this, The Godfather I and II, Star Wars, To Kill a Mockingbird, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many others, though when it comes to my taste for epic films, I don't really know what classics to watch as I never thought much about them until I watched clips of The Godfather Part II.

[IGNerBrasil]

Thank you a lot for the HD quality. Really, thank you.

[bluraymex23]

That's me looking for my keyes

[Eastwoodisboss]

@bluraymex23 lol nice

[Gordikramer]

I have no clue what is going on during this part of the movie, but holy shit. That was intense. Now I have to watch this movie.

[AlexanderT21]

"I'm sure I saw a spider..."

[kitten48484]

this is me looking for the remote...

[plusplusplusplusp]

Thumbs up if you felt sorry for him when he picked up the snow-globe and started crying.

[TheAmericanCommoner]

THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES is a CONTRACT of COMMONWEALTH proposed by Thomas Hobbes in THE LIVIATHAN (1651) ,

CHAPTER XIV OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURAL LAWS, AND OF CONTRACTS , Page 90-91, (Alfred Rayney Waller - 1904 print, *Can be found on Google*), Paragraph 4, begining with "Words alone, if they be of the time to come, and contain a bare promise, are an insufficient sign of a free gift and therefore not obligatory..."

[EXFOOLYCOOLY]

i feel sorry for him =[

[lazer59882]

he looks like phil caliendo's version of dr phil

[WendyTapson]

Imagine if they had to do a retake... lol.

[Rageman327]

He better clean all that shit up..

[EmceeProphIt]

This movie is the greatest example of the adage about "He who fights monsters..." I've ever seen.

[Rokudammela]

That Idea is as pure as the little world contained in it, which is in turn a kind of copy of the house he was living in as a child. So, to make it brief, it symbolizes childhood, the innocence he's lost as a grown-up capitalist who has suffered for the lack of love during all his life-time and is now realizing his life, as well as his mania of controlling everything - that's a bit autobiographical, as the same Welles had to be ossessed by control as a director - has been a total failure.

[Rokudammela]

Everything around him has been revealed to be a mere simulacrum, having no value at all and in the end he wasn't able to find the love he was looking for since his childood. Then he notices that sphere, reminding him of "Rosebud", and his destructive impulses are placated by nostalgia that has now taken a form.

As for the sphere, it is opposed to the empty simulacrum represented by each object Kane has taken, and its circual form suggests it's a perfect object, a pure Idea.

[Rokudammela]

There are plenty of things to be said about symbolism adopted in "Citizen Kane". A lot of essays and books have been written and it's amazing how a 70-years old movie looks still that modern and innovative.

Symbols used in this epic scene are all but difficult to be interpretated.

Having been left alone by his wife and having lost everyone around him but those empty object he bought to obtain the pretence of love, the only thing Kane is able to do is destroying those objects.

[paulisawesome3]

2:02

[markakajin]

Amazing, this scene just pulled me in right from the start until the very end

[OCtheGreat]

lol this nigga trippin

[grevejp44]

check out my video, I took this scene and reversed it. It looks really cool.

[RightWingHunter666]

Great scene.

[Deavi783]

Everybody betrayed me! I fed up with this world!

[yallbeignant]

In an Orson Welles interview he said he cut his left hand.  You can see it at 01:42

[MinorityMans]

Its such a sad scene. Ironic that its the only one where we truly , and it mirrors the attack of the sledge.

[Ichiboy900]

Screw de whole werld!

[JaceMorley]

This film is amazing. Am I the only one who thinks Kane becomes a "sympathetic" example of a Psychopath of the "Snake in a suit" variety? He loses all ability to empathise with other people, the only time we see him really happy tends to involve beating someone or winning some prize (politics, business and relationships) and his anger is very explosive and short, and he's very self-centred...

[AliaSparrow]

@JaceMorley I agree. He had so much potential to connect with others (he first connects to Susan because he was able to have a causal conversation and loves that she doesn't know he is famous). And then he tries to drive her into a life of fame to feed his ambitions and desire for control.

[tubub]

@JaceMorley

I always respected Citizen Cane as a young man because he is a rising, ambitious visionary. His intentions are skewed, he cares too much about material things, and he grows to be a broken and lonely old man

[likepaul]

Fuck yo couch nigga.

[lordalessan]

I used this scene as an example while discussing a book by Sigmund Freud about how we leave happiness in our childhood because we suffer under the grips of civilization in adulthood. I began to choke up crying while I discussed this scene, so powerful and emotional.

[ninja0406]

@lordalessan if u think the grips of civilization produces suffering, try the alternative

[lordalessan]

@ninja0406 Well I don't think it does personally (though I do think the world isn't such a perfect place), but apparently Freud did.

[ninja0406]

@lordalessan oh i agree the world is far from perfect, i just think living without civilization = worse

[ThePieIsLie]

Hosefudge...

[GaGa4EvrLady3xxx]

my dad thinks that he said noseblood instead of rosebud,

haha! good one dad!!

[doofy9000]

Whomever disliked this was Charles Foster Kane.

[whoo689]

It's his sled! It's his sled from when he was a kid.

There, I just saved you two long, boobless hours.

[Draugoth]

@whoo689 Huh? You do understand that its not just about figuring out the puzzle and what Rosebud is, right? Its about illustrating the tragic life of Kane, how in a true form of irony he attempted to fill his life with material things only to end up detesting it and realizing that what made him happy was something he could no longer have: the simple innocence of childhood, symbolized by his sled. As I always say, the journey is far more important than the destination; too bad you feel otherwise.

[TheRyenRogers]

@Draugoth you are too serious about this.... its the internet get over it.

[drasteek]

There were no punching bags in 1941?

[BlondBlackGuy]

I feel bad for the interns that had to clean that all up...

[videogamenostalgia]

'WHy Lisa!? Why you do dis to me!?!?!?! You bitch!' *Starts humping dress, then takes gun out of box and shoots himself*

[KRS1LEGEND]

Its a sled, its a frikkin slead from when he was a kid. There i just save ld you 3 hours

[diegochilecruzado]

@KRS1LEGEND go ruin somebody else's day please.

nobody cares you have no taste for movies.

[samwestonc]

I would do the same thing if I was majorly pissed

[AMOVIEGUY14]

1 person does not know great movies like this one

[SOUTHPARKFOREVER240]

We are animals, i mean just look at every mans preferred sexual position, ITS DOGGY STYLE ! yes, we humans do have animal tendencies. Deep iddinit?

[dalektaliban]

1:12 shelf rape!

[jammakane10]

@dalektaliban Thanks, you just ruined the emotional impact of one of the most important scenes in one of the best films ever by making me laugh at a man thrusting at a shelf :D

[jutubaeh]

@dalektaliban incredible you take your reels off and still some yt punk comes along with something profane!

rosebud punk, rosebud!

[SagaciousSilence]

I've wanted to do that to my room my whole life...

I think humans are animalistic... deep down inside of us.

[ReebaShmeeba]

@SagaciousSilence Yup, peel back the layers on suits, dresses, and whatever else we use to adorn ourselves, and we truly are just animals deep down. If the world ever does come to an end, I guarantee it's gonna be every man/woman for his/herself! Humanity my foot...lol

[oreosarecrack]

Tommy Wiseau's intents have never been clearer..

[TheGameGuru1000]

@oreosarecrack I <3 you...

[moviehypno23]

@oreosarecrack who's Tommy Wiseau?

[JustinSuhr4]

@moviehypno23 on of the worst writers, actors, producers, directors of all time, and he's still doin stuff today, but he's only praised because his films are just soooo damn bad that they're good, in fact the film that made him famous was "The Room" omg its unbelievably bad that its good, haha you just have to see it to understand

[lallafralify]

@JustinSuhr4 Orson Welles is dead, he has been since 1985

[JustinSuhr4]

@lallafralify what does that have to do with my comment?

[TurtlesButtNaked]

@oreosarecrack hhahaha, good call

[lnten91]

charlie SMASH!

[TanfasticProductions]

the mirror shot gives me the chills sometimes, sooo fantastic

[Aussiemarco]

Like so many films that have gone down as milestones in cinema, it was years and years and years ahead of its time.

[WhyDoYouAskWhoIam]

Great film. I am suddenly reminded of that scene in the film The Wall where Pink thrashes his own hotel room...

[lordzeven]

RAMPAGE!!!!

[desotowrong]

When they say this is the essential American film, they are not lying. I couldn't get this film out of my head for a whole week.

[theboombody]

I'm pretty sure he would have reacted differently if Cher was the singer that walked out on him.

[vIREFLECTiONv]

How this film lost to "How Green is My Valley" I will never understand.

For shame!!!

[grungzer]

@vIREFLECTiONv don't forget that William Randolph Hearst was not exactly enthusiastic about how he was portrayed in this movie. Since he basically controlled the news, whatever he liked went.

[BrightFutureMaker]

@vIREFLECTiONv Citizen Kane should have at the very least won the Oscar of "Best Cinematography" which How Green is My Valley also won. A damn shame indeed.

[moviehypno23]

@BrightFutureMaker Should've won Picture, Director, and Actor for Orson Welles at least. It's sad to know how hated this film was when it first came out, severely underrated at first.

[Twisttheawesome]

@vIREFLECTiONv

It was mainly due to Herst (whom a great majority of this film is based) slandering Welle's name

[aerocheder]

One heck of a scene. the shot with the mirrors i still can't find a way how they did that

[armchairmaster]

@aerocheder

It's 2 mirrors on both sides of the room. It's like an endless tunnel.

[aerocheder]

@armchairmaster i know that what im had a hard time understanding how they kept out the camera out of the show

[JAMxSkalla16]

orsen welles actually cut his hand very badly during this clip but continued to finish the shoot anyways. you can notice that he uses one hand over the other because one is badly hurt.

[Novak67766]

Did Welles really want this as bright and clear as it is now on DVD?