The Social Network and Citizen Kane

 Citizen Kane and The Social Network are very different movies, made in different eras.  The story plots of the two movies are different. Citizen Kane is about the life of Kane, a well respected and rich man. Kane received his wealth  as a child and forced to leave his parents. Unlike Kane, Zuckerberg, gained his wealth  during college and is trying to protect himself from his enemies. Another obvious difference between the movies is time periods. In Citizen Kane, what was considered scandalous was that Kane had been with another woman. Yet in The Social Network, we see drugs, alcohol and sex as the scandalous.

Although the time and plot of the two stories are different, there are still a lot of the similarities between the two. First, I saw similarities in their characters. Both characters that don’t strive for money but that they both want to be loved and glorified by people. Kane and Zuckerberg find themselves as entrepreneurs in the media of their eras. In the end both characters create enemies and  become alone. Not only is there many similarities in their characters but in also the style of which they both were filmed. Citizen Kane and The Social Network were filmed going from present to past, creating a “flash back” effect.