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- From: yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Yousten)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: re. Citizen Kane Question
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:52:05 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec23.144603.29202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.144603.29202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dtussey@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel W Tussey) writes:
- >The fact that Rosebud was the name of Kane's sled as a boy is a fundamental
- >part of the movie, as I see it. The entire movie is about a man who is
- >searching for happiness. The sled symbolizes the happiness and comfort he felt
- >as a boy, and that was taken away from him. A big deal is made about the
- >Rosebud reference because it is the symbol for everyman's search for happiness.
-
- Right around the end, one reporter (I think) says something like "Kane
- was a man who had everything. Maybe Rosebud was something he had and
- lost."
-
- Like his childhood.
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- Ken Yousten "The Wendigo, the Wendigo!
- Blacksburg, VA I saw it just a friend ago"
- kay@radford.vak12ed.edu -from Ogden Nash, "The Wendigo"
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