Charles Foster Kane and Michael Corleone: Twins Sons of Different Mothers

That's one of the most original connections I've read in a while related to classic film. I doubt many classic film experts today would find that astute relationship, Tim. But it's so plain, it makes you wonder why others haven't bothered to mention it. I guess it's because the gangster film is (in some people's minds) in its own bracket and considered far and away from the tale of "Citizen Kane" and mirrored life of Hearst. Yet it also places the powerfulness of a Charles Foster Kane on the same plane as (or a connectivity to) the mafia and those who still control the strings. But that "lost childhood" archetype analogy to a person's collective unconscious is a compelling argument. Everybody wants to feel what it's like to be the powerful person...but nobody really wants to live it for real either. "CK" and "The Godfather" makes that realistic like no other film...and in somewhat of a dream state (at least in "Kane").