Everyone knows Citizen Kane is a masterpiece. The camera work seems modern even after 60 years. But it does have gaffes. In the scene where Kane’s love nest is revealed to his wife and soon to the world by gloating Boss Gettys, the camera angles, lighting, atmosphere, virtually everything is near perfect—until Welles reacts with a howling scream out of gaslight melodrama: “I’m sending you to Sing Sing, Gettys! Siiiing Siiiing!!!” Welles did create moments of enraged impotence in Kane.
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