The movie begins with his death, virtually alone, in his vast, self-created castle, Xanadu. “It isn’t a who, it’s an it,” said Herman.Ĭitizen Kane is the imaginary biography of a newspaper tycoon and American sultan, Charles Foster Kane. When Herman first mentioned “rosebud,” she asked, “Who is rosebud?” It all came out not fast, not slow-at a continued pace as though he had it all in his mind.” Rita Alexander remembers: “He began with the title, the description of the scene, the indications of the camera movement, the dialogue, and so on. He dictated it to a secretary, as was his habit. In early 1940 Herman Mankiewicz began the first draft of Citizen Kane.
Herman Mankiewicz, Script for Christmas Holiday It does something to you, if from the time you’re old enough to see, you get standards set for you, and ideals, and ambitions, that you. I only put my talent into my writing my genius I reserved for my life. He was that enormously romantic figure-the incandescent cutup who lived his life as one continuous escapade. But during the 1930’s and 1940’s he became a living legend, for Mank was larger than life-more brilliant in his wit, learning, and conversation, more freewheeling in his capers, greater in the scale of his faults and in the self-destructiveness of his fall. He is probably best known as the primary author of Citizen Kane, one of the masterpieces of filmmaking in America. Even for the flamboyant world of Hollywood, Herman Mankiewicz was an extravagant figure.
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