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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I couldn't stand Citizen Kane.

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I couldn't stand Citizen Kane.

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Kane's dying words were "Rosebud". Attempting to discover what "Rosebud" meant, reporters spent the entire movie interviewing people, learning Kane's true history, which wasn't admirable, unlike the fake history Kane foisted on the world. The final scene was workmen emptying Kane's mansion. They threw "Rosebud," Kane's childhood sled into the furnace. Riding on Rosebud was about the last authentic thing Kane ever did. The rest of his life was faking and poising as someone different than who the real man was.

Kane's life was a Hollywood set, where the front side facing an audience looks impressive/strong/dynamic but the backside, where nobody but a reporter would look, is cheap and flimsily built to make it easy to knock down and cart away the pieces to the dump.

Trump is Citizen Kane. Trump is fake. I can see why you couldn't understand Trump's behavior as a string of tricks to delude the gullible because you wouldn't pay attention to Kane's tricks to hide his weaknesses and inadequacies, 6ix.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by Brenda:
The first "talkie" Charlie Chaplin made was the "The Dictator" though now it is often called "The Great Dictator". It was released in 1940.

His final silent film was "The Goldrush" which was released in 1936 if I am remembering right. I saw it on YouTube. Brave man considering that "talkies" had been around since 1932 with the release of "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson.

"The Goldrush" was the last outing for his little tramp character but his barber character in "The Dictator" shared certain similarities with the little tramp.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
The first "talkie" Charlie Chaplin made was the "The Dictator" though now it is often called "The Great Dictator". It was released in 1940.

His final silent film was "The Goldrush" which was released in 1936 if I am remembering right. I saw it on YouTube. Brave man considering that "talkies" had been around since 1932 with the release of "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson.

"The Goldrush" was the last outing for his little tramp character but his barber character in "The Dictator" shared certain similarities with the little tramp.

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There's a lot of great silent stuff on YOUTUBE, there are channels that show the filming locations 'then and now'.

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