D. Maddox- citizen kane then and now

"Around the 1940s when this movie came out, people did not take to this movie so kindly. The target audience for this film most likely was adults in their late 20s and up. People who watched this movie back in the day did not really understand this movie and did not appreciate all of its contents like we do today. As this film is told by five narrators, the audience must piece together all of the information that is given. At this time, having this type of content in a film is new so the audience of Citizen Kane was left confused and frustrated. This doesn't say a lot about the audience because it was new to them but it does say a lot about Welles. He created something new and changed the way films were made. On top of the audience not liking the film, Welles had a newspaper mogul after him. Randolph Hearst fought for this film not to be shown because he heard that the main character in the movie looks like him. Randolph Hearst pretty much controlled radio and newspaper advertisements throughout the nation, which meant that Orson Welles Citizen Kane got no recognition from Hearst. "