The 120-page draft of the initial script revealed that Jack Fincher closely followed a claim voiced by Pauline Kael in her 1971 New Yorker article Raising Kane that Orson Welles did not deserve screenwriting credit. The article angered many critics, including Welles's friend and fellow filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich who rebutted Kael's claims point by point in "The Kane Mutiny", an October 1972 article for Esquire. Her argument was discredited by several film scholars through the years, including Robert Carringer in his study of "The Scripts of Citizen Kane." Another way of rebutting Kael's claims would be by simply reading the final-draft screenplay published alongside her essay in "The Citizen Kane Book" and then comparing it with the actual film - there are significant differences.

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