interesting secrets

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2003)

If you're ever watching Citizen Kane again, slow down the movie when Kane and Susan are on the picnic- we see the cars in a line, then the next scene is in the marsh with the tents set up and the musicians playing. As a man walks to the left, birds fly by rapidly in the background, but in slow mo, you can tell that these are pterodactyls! The set is actually of a prehistoric movie that RKO studios shot earlier. Also, the scene where the reporter goes to the butler and asks about Rosebud- we shock cut to a cockatoo screaching, and if you look closely, you can see through its eyeballs. I always laugh at the scene where the staff is going to present Kane with the trophy, but then he goes outside- does Leland really have to say "Let's go to the window!" Seems kind of hilarious on screen, but then again, Kane is making a movie based on radio programs, so this kind of dialogue would be necessary in that context.