Modernism is a study which seeks to spread its efforts across literature, theatre, music and art in the first half of the 20th Century. Indeed it is ought really to go back into the nineteenth century, to the the music theatre of Wagner. Modernism was against the values of realism. The rejection of traditions and its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms. It could be explained in a way that we are in control of our thoughts, we know what's good or bad. We have the intellect to make choices of our own. Modernism rejected the existence of compassionate and all-powerful Creator God. In a way they believed that God does not exist because everything is made out of nothing. Modernist thinking and views were simply out with the old and in with the new. They thought the modernism encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the traditional form of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organizational and daily life were becoming old fashioned and outdated in today new economy,political and social world. As the world was emerging new approach had to be looked at and developed.
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane is a 1941 drama film directed by and starring Orson Welles. The story of the film is based on examining the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane played by Welles. The character is based on the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Welles's Own Life. Charles Foster Kane played by Orson Welles, anonymously wealthy media proprietor , living in Florida, Xanadu for the last years of his life with a 'No Trespassing' sign on his gate, dies in a bed while holding a snow globe which smashes while slipping from his dying hand and utters "Rosebud". Kane's death then becomes sensational news around the world. The newsreel reporter Jerry Thompson played by (William Alland) tries to find out about Kane's private life and in particular discovering the meaning behind his last word. Thompson gets in touch with Kane's second wife Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore) who runs her own club and now alcoholic but she refuses to tell him anything. He then approaches Kane's private banker wanting to find out more information about him. Flash backs reveal that Charles Foster Kane spent his childhood poverty. He lived in Colorado where his parents ran a boarding house. Kane was later sent by his mother to live with Walter Parks Thatcher and get educated. At the age of 25 Charles Foster Kane gains full control of his possession and he instantly enters the newspaper business by taking control of New York Inquire and also hires the best journalists around to work for him.
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