On 22 Jun 2007 at 08:10:15 -0700, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Instead, I'm saying that the if Orson Welles thinks the best way to tell the Citizen Kane story is to create a mystery, we should not casually reveal it just because somebody thinks, as a couple of people on this list have suggested, that it's just as good either way.
Although, in [[RKO 281]], a 1999 film that was a fictionalized account of the creation of Citizen Kane, Welles is shown yelling the spoiler about "Rosebud" to the crowd waiting in the theater lobby before the start of an opening-night showing, just for the heck of it. (At that point he's pretty frustrated with the whole movie business, after all the manipulations to try to suppress his film.)