Talk:Charles Foster Kane

In the movie, it is only revealed that G.W. Gettys has evidence that implicates Kane as having an affair with Susan Alexander, not that he has any conclusive proof that Kane actually did have an affair. Susan herself denies that there was any affair when confronted by Kane's wife, Emily Norton, and she seems desperately honest when doing so. Kane, meanwhile, seems indignant that Gettys is willing to destroy Susan's reputation for his own political gain and refuses to allow himself to be blackmailed: clearly, he feels like he has nothing to hide. Kane, in the middle of a political campaign, was very image-conscious and fully aware that his campaign for governor hinged on his percieved moral standing in the community. It seems unlikely that he would throw all that away with a casual adulterous affair, though he may not have realized that his actions--going to visit Susan in her apartment (more than once, the movie would seem to suggest)--would have created the opportunity for Gettys to turn the same yellow journalist tactics Kane had employed against others against Kane himself.

It is, of course, entirely possible that Susan Alexander was lying, that Kane DID have a serious lapse in judgement, and that they did indeed have an affair. However the point is that the movie never makes it clear one way or the other. I edited the article to add that element of ambiguity to it. Antodav 18:15, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Kane's "prose poems" line in the film was misquoted. I changed it to match exactly what Kane said in the movie. Antodav 18:15, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Category:Fictional versions of real people

Is being genenrally held to be based on Hearst enough to fit this category? --Spencer "The Belldog" Bermudez | (Complain here) 19:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Annenberg .. I thought maybe the movie is secretly really based on Moses Annenberg.. He worked for the Hearst Corporation and FDR threw him in jail before Citizen Kane was released, because he was putting anti-FDR articles in his newspapers (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about the " NEW-PLAN " solution for the great depression. And he died in 1942 right after he got out of jail due to cancer, anyone can guess how he got sick. I didnt post this on the main c.k page cause theres too much stuff on it, but i really think the movie is about him and nobody has ever mentioned this, did Hearst himself mysteriously die? I don't think so, though i don't know much about him. ---Anon.

Actually, I think Charles Kane really does represent Hearst. Possibly Mr. Bernstein represents Moses Annenberg in the film. Bernstein ( a character in the film ) worked for Charles Kane. ---Anon.