In the movie Citizen Kane, a group of reporters try to uncover and understand the meaning of Charles Foster Kane’s last word, “Rosebud”, before he passed away. The reporters investigate Kane’s past and the film uses essential flashbacks into Kane’s life in order to reveal the meaning of the mysterious word. On the other hand, the movie Blade Runner, tells the story of an advanced society in 2019, where a man named Deckard must help to destroy androids called Replicants. These Replicants were invented to do jobs that humans did not want to do because they were too hazardous, but eventually the Replicants became strong enough to revolt against the humans, and in turn they were prohibited to live on Earth and must be destroyed if they are found. Citizen Kane stresses textual representation more than material representation to draw the viewer’s attention to the important themes in Kane’s life: avariciousness, seclusion, and unhappiness. Blade Runner primarily uses material representation, while using some forms of textual representation, to express themes of oppression, ethics, and compassion in society. Beginning with Citizen Kane, the film opens with an obscure, depressing presentation of Kane’s rich estate in Xanadu. Florida, in a scene that helps the audience foreshadow his…show more content… This snow globe represents Kane’s last moments of happiness, when he was playing in the snow in his sled around his family, that he could remember as a child. The snow globe embodies how he had everything most American people could ever dream of in the palm of his hands. He does not care much for the riches and the power because he is miserable, and he drops this snow globe and lets it break and fall to the ground. As the snow globe breaks, it represents how Kane had lost the true meaning of happiness due to these riches and all this
