Battleship Potemkin

Hailee 2022-03-20 09:01:56

1. Man and Maggot: The Beginning of the Contradiction

2. Deck situation: The imaginary picture of the hanged person on the side of the ship, using mask processing. The scene of throwing the ship doctor into the sea is followed by the scene of maggots, the use of montage

3. The cry of the dead: for a spoonful of borscht, against the oppressor. All for One, One for All

The red flag is raised, which is the only color part of the whole film, and the film painting technique was used at that time.

4. Odessa Stairs: People take a white boat to deliver food to the Potemkin, a clip of the Odessa Stairs massacre combining motion and stillness, there are several repeated scenes showing the same thing from multiple perspectives. The clips of the shelling and the lion statue are also a kind of montage.

5. Final Victory: Gradually accelerated tempo of music and editing to create tension. Shoot? or...brothers?

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Extended Reading
  • Eriberto 2022-04-23 07:02:31

    Griffith's 200min power finally shocked Eisenstein's 70min

  • Rosario 2021-12-20 08:01:14

    People and maggots, scenes on the back deck, the dead calling for revenge, the Odessa steps, encounters with the fleet. Eisenstein’s dialectical movement theory, montage of the Odessa ladder, more than 160 shots in 8 minutes, a powerful attempt to magnify time and space in the film. Hand-dyed red flag.

Battleship Potemkin quotes

  • Title Card: The spirit of revolution soared over the Russian land. A tremendous, mysterious process was taking place in countless hearts. The individual personality, having hardly had time to become conscious of itself, dissolved in the mass, and the mass itself became dissolved in the revolutionary élan.

  • Grigory Vakulinchuk: We, the sailors of 'Potemkin,' must support the workers, our brothers, and stand among the front lines of the revolution!