I'm Sean Fennesee.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about Orson Wells.

This week marks the arrival of David Fincher's long awaited, Mank, which chronicles the

screenwriter Herman Manko with his life and work on the script for Citizen Kane.

So today we will be talking all things Kane, Wells and Classic Hollywood with Adam Neiman

and Chris Ryan. It's all coming up on the Big Picture.

Chris Ryan, Adam Neiman, welcome to the show. I'm very glad that you guys are here to celebrate

Mank Week. This is a very big week here on the Big Picture. And there's so much to discuss.

This is a conversation that I think can span far and wide. But before we begin and dive

deeply into Citizen Kane, it's making its history, its importance. I just want to know, and

I'll start with you, Chris, what does Citizen Kane mean to you? What do you make of the

Citizen Kane of the world?

What do I make of the Citizen Kane of the world? Man, so this is an interesting question.

I guess if you're asking what I love about the movie, it's how full of ideas it is.

I was watching a couple of YouTube videos of just like different directors talking about

Citizen Kane. And the one that I liked the most was Sidney Pollock. And he said, in every

single scene, in every single shot, Citizen Kane has an idea. And I think that's what I

took from the movie the first time I watched it. That's what I take from the movie when

I watched it this week. I think when I watched it, I was like a teenager. And you could

just tell immediately that someone was telling you not only to watch the film or to follow

a story, but to think about how that story was being told and why. And I don't think

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