Daily Dialogue — January 20, 2013

— Citizen Kane (1941), original screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is overreacting, suggested by @davidproenza.

Trivia: In the 1970s, film critic Pauline Kael wrote an essay called “Raising Kane”. In it, she credited co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz for writing the entire script for this film, while alleging that Orson Welles “didn’t write one line of the shooting script.” However, this conclusion has very little factual basis, and was largely based on hearsay. The shooting script was actually based on two scripts (written separately by Welles and Mankiewicz) that Welles combined into one for the final version. 
 
Dialogue On Dialogue: There is no dialogue in this scene, but it is perhaps the single most memorable overreaction scene in the history of cinema.