Narrator: "Alone in his...decaying pleasure palace...Charles Foster Kane continued to direct ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

After his fall, Citizen Kane (1941) at South Florida estate.
Narrator: “Alone in his...decaying pleasure palace…Charles Foster Kane continued to direct his falling empire…vainly attempting to sway, as he once did, the destinies of a nation that has ceased to listen to him."

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Charles Foster Kane enjoying some time with his wife on a happy, carefree drive outside their estate in South Florida, in “Citizen Kane” (1941):

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[LakeArenal]

1. Sigh.... if only...

I see the silverware and candlesticks going out the door.

[nuxvomica]

2. Yes, I think he was deeply influenced by Citizen Kane

Mar-a-Lago is a bargain-basement Xanadu. The front pages: "Kane Elected" or "Fraud at Polls!". The list goes on. Like Kane, he was deprived of his childhood, but due to a sickly mother and domineering father yet never new want or the ordinary challenges of growing up that steel the rest of us. But I keep asking myself the question, what is his Rosebud? It would be something not even his family would know. Perhaps it was a gaily costumed doll of a Mexican girl that he somehow acquired at the age of three. His father caught him playing with it and destroyed it. Just a theory.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. What A Great Reference!

I have loved & studied that movie since my sophomore year of high school.
Had an English teacher that offered a quarter credit class in film history.
Took it from him 2 years.
I would thank him to this day if I saw him.