:11:01
You can take my word for it,
there will be no war.
:11:09
Kane helped to change the world...
:11:11
...but Kane's world now is history...
:11:14
...and the great yellow journalist himself
lived to be history...
:11:18
...outlived his power to make it.
:11:21
Alone in his never-finished,
already decaying pleasure palace...
:11:25
...aloof, seldom visited,
never photographed...
:11:29
...an emperor of newsprint
continued to direct his failing empire.
:11:34
Vainly attempted to sway, as he once did...
:11:37
...the destinies of a nation
that had ceased to listen to him...
:11:40
...ceased to trust him.
:11:44
Then last week, as it must to all men...
:11:49
...death came to Charles Foster Kane.
:11:52
News on the March.
:11:59
That's it.
:12:01
Stand by.
I'll tell you if we want to run it again.
:12:04
- How about it, Mr.Rawlston?
- How do you like it, boys?
:12:07
- Seventy years in a man's life.
- That's a lot to try to get into a newsreel.
:12:11
It's a good short,
but what it needs is an angle.
:12:14
All we saw on that screen
was that Charles Foster Kane is dead.
:12:17
I know that. I read the papers.
:12:19
It isn't enough to tell us what a man did...
:12:22
...you've got to tell us who he was.
:12:25
Wait a minute.
What were Kane's last words?
:12:29
Do you remember, boys?
:12:31
What were the last words
he said on Earth?
:12:33
Maybe he told us about himself
on his deathbed.
:12:35
- Maybe he didn't.
- All we saw was a big American.
:12:39
How did he differ from Ford,
Hearst or John Doe?
:12:42
I tell you, a man's dying words--
:12:44
What were they?
You don't read the papers.
:12:46
When Charles Foster Kane died,
he said one word:
:12:49
"Rosebud."
:12:50
That's all he said? Tough guy.
:12:52
Yes, "Rosebud." Just that one word.
:12:55
- But who is she?
- What was it?
:12:56
Here's a man
who could've been president...
:12:59
...who was as loved,
hated and talked about...