Eisenstein is known as a person who has contributed to the discovery of world cultural history. He is a master of film art who combines theoretical systems with creative practice. His main contribution is to complete the thought of the Soviet montage school. The complete construction of the theoretical system. He believes: "Montage is conflict, and the foundation of all art is always conflict." And he proposed: "Editing should be the conflict of two shots, namely 'positive' and 'anti', to create new meanings." In his theoretical work It also emphasizes that the combination of shots is not "the sum of two numbers" but "the product of two numbers".
In his early research on film theory, he first proposed "sideshow montage" and "attraction montage" from the perspective of drama, which made the audience have a strong emotional impact through the conflict between the shots. In the late 1920s, he proposed "rational montage", which can also be called "rational film", and advocated that the visual image in the picture should be transformed into a rational recognition through the shape inside the picture and the collision and conflict between the lenses. to obtain abstract cognition. It cleverly resolves the contradiction between "logical thinking" and "image language", and becomes a synthesis of rational process and perceptual process. The montage has risen from a technique of artistic expression to the height of "thinking mode" and "film aesthetics", organically combining montage and dialectical thinking.
His most famous theoretical and practical work is "Battleship Potemkin", which for the first time used artistic language to bring the people in the revolution to the movie screen, and used the vulgar entertainment method and propaganda and ideological tool of the movie at that time for the first time. into philosophical art. The film is mainly divided into five stages, with five titles unfolding in chronological order. It mainly tells that the sailors on the battleship Potemkin of the Tsar Navy bravely planned an uprising and prepared to supply supplies in the port of Odessa after being treated inhumanly. The residents of Odessa swarmed to cheer them after hearing it. , but was slaughtered by the Tsar's Navy on the stairs, and finally Potemkin successfully joined the revolutionary team after bombing the Tsar's headquarters. The use of montage in the whole film is proficient, creating a storyline with twists and turns for us.
Among them, "Odessa Stairs" is a highly regarded segment in film history. In just six minutes, Eisenstein used nearly 150 shots to show the slaughter and the slaughtered, using various The form of montage enriches and expands the time of the film, giving people a strong psychological impact, and at the same time showing the endless carnage going on. Full of rational criticism, and after the bombing of the Tsar's headquarters by the Navy Potemkin, three sleeping, awake and standing lions appeared, and also completed an important thought that cannot be expressed in a single shot: the Russian people stand up Now, be brave against the dark dictatorship of the Tsar!
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