The Cynical Historian

Citizen Kane, Trump, and Hearst | Based on True Story (2016x40)

Air date: Dec 17, 2016

It's time review Citizen Trump's favorite movie, Citizen Kane. Strangely enough, it is kind of Based on a True Story. William Randolph Hearst was Orson Welles's target, but this is an odd one for me. ------------------------------------------------------------ references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Over_Citizen_Kane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst The Battle over Citizen Kane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgSgCo6z3Q Trump on Citizen Kane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPvwdrlzCM&t=458s (21:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a63ymFn6nS0&t=1s http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/donald-trump-2016-citizen-kane-213943 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-kelly-223303 ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ----------------------------------------- Wiki: Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star. The picture was Welles's first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film of all time, Citizen Kane was voted as such in five consecutive British Film Institute Sight & Sound polls of critics, until it was displaced by Vertigo in the 2012 poll. It topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. Citizen Kane is particularly praised for its cinematography, music, and narrative structure, which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting. The quasi-b