{"id":104121,"date":"2026-11-12T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104121"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:08:34","slug":"qotd-citizen-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/qotd-citizen-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><em>Citizen Kane<\/em> is barely even blah &#8230; until you realize that it was shot in 1941, and start comparing it to everything else shot in 1941. <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> looks like a Current Year piece, and that&#8217;s why it was so revolutionary \u2014 everything else in 1941 looks like they just pointed a camera at a Broadway stage and left it running. Pretty much every movie &#8220;trope&#8221; \u2014 the whole visual &#8220;language&#8221; of modern cinema (I believe the <em>term d&#8217;art<\/em> is <em>topos<\/em>) \u2014 was created by <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>. When it comes to modern moviemaking, nobody makes &#8220;an Orson Welles&#8221; movie anymore, because they&#8217;re ALL Orson Welles movies; after <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, that&#8217;s just how movies are <em>done<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2026\/08\/04\/period-piece\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Period Piece&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2026-08-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Kane is barely even blah &#8230; until you realize that it was shot in 1941, and start comparing it to everything else shot in 1941. Citizen Kane looks like a Current Year piece, and that&#8217;s why it was so revolutionary \u2014 everything else in 1941 looks like they just pointed a camera at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,28,41,13],"tags":[174,1197,122,1462],"class_list":["post-104121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-innovation","tag-interwarperiod","tag-movies","tag-severian"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-r5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105968,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104121\/revisions\/105968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}