Slowly building to something that spans numerous projects and oddly enough the colour black is offering a nice meat hook.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Ships that signaled an end to Japanese isolation in 1853 and now (thanks to a nod on Twitter by Ben) Black Sheep:
We gave the black sheep a chance to prove their theories, and we changed the way a number of things are done here…
Great article that. Go read it.
It is difficult to explain what makes any great work great, and particularly difficult with movies, and maybe more so with Citizen Kane than with over great movies, because it isn’t a work of special depth or a work of subtle beauty. It is a shallow work, a shallow masterpiece. Those who try to account for its stature as a film by claiming it to be profound are simply dodging the problem - or maybe they don’t recognise that there is one. Like most of the films of the of the sound ear that are called masterpieces, Citizen Kane has reached its audience gradually over the years rather than at the time of release.
Pauline Kael, Raising Kane, 1971.
Note: Spinvox initially transcribed Citizen Kane as Sits in the game. I fucking love that.