On the topic of NON DIEGETIC IMAGES- I've always wondered if the white
parrot in Citizen Kane is diegetic or non-diegetic. It appears around the time
when Susan is leaving Kane and Xanadu. The bird really comes out of nowhere and
knowing that Orson Welles generally hates the use of symbols in his films, it's
been a mystery to me why he threw that in - my only guess is that the bird's
terrible squaking would wake any audience up.BUt the question remains, is this
a diegetic image or no?
 
                                Drew McElligott
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