This week, our four-legged star is clutching a tiny snow globe and looking incredibly wealthy (and perhaps a little bit lonely) as the legendary Charles Foster Kane from the 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane! 
“I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle—a missing piece.”
Little studio trivia:
Citizen Kane is consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made because it completely rewrote the cinematic rulebook. Before this movie, Hollywood sets rarely had ceilings—that’s where all the lights and microphones hung. But Welles, ordered his crew to build ceilings out of fabric and hide the microphones right inside the sets. The film also pioneered “deep focus,” a camera technique that kept the extreme foreground and the deep background in sharp focus at the exact same time, allowing actors to move dynamically through the space.
The Orson Welles Connection:
Here is the most mind-blowing fact about this cinematic triumph: Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the lead role when he was only 25 years old.
Because he was already considered a “boy genius” in theatre and radio, the studio gave him unprecedented creative control. He used that total freedom to base the character of Kane heavily on real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was so furious when he found out that he used his massive media empire to try and destroy the film. He banned all of his newspapers from mentioning it and intimidated theaters into refusing to screen it!
Welles wasn’t afraid to challenge the system, break the rules, and ruffle a few feathers to tell the truth of his story. When you step onto the studio floor, remember that making the safe choice rarely makes history. Be bold!
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