Steve Hearst, who manages the family's ranches and other business interests, said there were many comparisons to be made between Kane and his great-grandfather, but also huge differences. This article is more than 9 years old. Screening of Welles' masterpiece at former home of William Randolph Hearst will lay to rest long-running feud. Reuse this content. Hearst was wealthy and conservative, hated minorities, distrusted Jews, supported the Nazi party, was an isolationist and an anti-communist, loathed President Roosevelt, and hated the New Deal.
Welles tended toward liberalism and was accustomed to accepting people for their talents rather than their religion or ethnicity. However, although Hearst and Welles were polar opposites politically and socially, both were smart, egotistical, and indulged by those around them. Welles both loathed Hearst and identified with him, and portraying Kane required him to reconcile these conflicting feelings.
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The financial loss was unsurprising considering the immense pressure applied by one of America's wealthiest and most influential newspaper owners. William Randolph Hearst was led to believe that the film was based on him.
He refused to run advertisements for Citizen Kane and his publications attacked Welles personally, accusing him of being an unpatriotic Communist sympathiser. Arnold Weissberger, Welles' lawyer-manager, warned his client that "the forces opposed to us are constantly at work". Research by Harlan Lebo revealed there was a range of other dark tactics employed by Hearst employees , including an attempt to set up and photograph Welles with a year-old girl in a hotel room. The two men only met once in an elevator in San Francisco, where the film was being premiered.
Welles offered Hearst some free tickets but the tycoon declined to answer. During the promotion of the film in Welles issued a statement correcting a magazine article which claimed Citizen Kane was about Hearst. Welles said : "It is the portrait of a fictional newspaper tycoon, and I have never said or implied to anyone that it is anything else.
In he wrote : "There are parallels, but these can be just as misleading as comparisons Except for the telegram [a reference to the famous Hearst quote, 'You make the pictures, I'll make the war'] and the crazy art collection much too good to resist , in Kane everything was invented. Welles collaborated with Herman Mankiewicz on the script for Citizen Kane - 's Netflix film Mank, starring Gary Oldman, explored the story behind Mankiewicz's contribution to the film.
Simon Callow recalls in his Welles biography that Mankiewicz became angry that Welles seemed to be getting all the credit for writing the film during the promotion of the film. Herb Drake [Welles' publicist] wrote: "[Mankiewicz] is in the biggest fever yet The movie suggests that Mank was ostracized in Hollywood for voicing his support of Upton Sinclair Bill Nye , who was painted by the media as a communist. When Sinclair ultimately loses the election, a director of those attack ads, Shelly Metcalf Jamie McShane , is overcome with guilt and takes his own life.
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