All you hear is how Citizen Kane is the embodiment of a great film. I never got the hype. All Quiet on the Western Front should be at the top of the heap. This movie is a trailblazer and so well done and the best film at depicting the true hell that war really is without all the gore and blood.
shareafter finally seeing Citizen Kane I asked a film maker friend what the heck all the fuss was about, he said he didn’t think it was that great a movie but there was something - which I’ve forgotten - innovative about the actual filming that made it groundbreaking.
shareCitizen Kane was groundbreaking in a number of ways. One of the first films to show the ceiling in a scene, the first to use deep focus, also innovative use of chiaroscuro lighting. Also the way the story is structured around the mystery of a man who we never really meet, so in some ways the movie is very meta in that it’s all about the style of the story and not the actual substance.
shareTechnically speakin, the only impressive thing about Quiet are the battle scenes. CK is in another level. Also better script.
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