Charles Foster Kane is lying in bed, as at the film's start. Susan Alexander Kane is sitting by the bed.
"Bird," Kane says. "Bird!"
"All ya wanniz a bird?" Mrs. Kane asks.
"Bird," Kane says. He coughs, coughs again, and dies.
And that was my dream, inspired I suppose by the screeching cockatoo that appears much later in the film.
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I really hate that cockatoo -- what a horrible editorial decision. (Or maybe it was a mistake, but I can't imagine how that mistake was made.)
It's startling -- that's for sure, as I find when I show the film to students who've never seen it.
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