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This movie was deemed to break the stylistic conventions of the run of the mill classical Hollywood cinema because it brought something that no other movie had seen, which were new lighting schemes, camera angles, and editing techniques. The risks that Welles took were great. Welles was basing the movie off William Randolph Hearst, a powerful man who invented yellow journalism and used it to his extreme. Hearst did everything in his power to shut the movie down, and make up lies about it. Not to mention Welles was only 24 years old and for a young guy like that to go up against a powerful tycoon in Hearst was amazing. Welles didn't back down, and when Citizen Kane was initially released it didn't do so great at the box office, it wasn't until after Hearst died that the film became a national phenomena.