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- From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: re. Citizen Kane Question
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 05:56:56 GMT
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- flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec23.144603.29202@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dtussey@magnus.
- > >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 f
- > >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 happine
- >
- > How about the idea that the sled isn't about happiness, but about his
- > ability to strike out at the world. He isn't able to control anyone anymore
- > and he rembers back to when he was a child and he manipulated his parents.
- > This was also the time he first gained his wealth and did anything he
- > wanted.
- >
- > Maybe he was wishing that he could start over again and not turn out
- > to be the "control" addict that he had become?
- >
- > Flip
- >
- > --
- > __@ __@ Phillip "Flip" Russell | Purdue University
- > _-\<, -\<,_ flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu | West Lafayette, IN
- > (_)/---|/-(_) The important things...
- > My bikes and my Macintosh
-
- Another interesting "sled" thing, was that the new sled that Thatcher
- gave him, was named "Crusader", Foreshadowing his eventuall crusades
- against big business.
-
- Dascoser
-