"Battleship Potemkin" is Eisenstein's most famous film and a great work in film history. It promotes the use of montage and maximizes this editing technique. "Odessa Stairs" is even more It was regarded as a classic by later generations.
This story also begins with a spoonful of borscht. Sailors refused to eat the borscht from the ship because the beef had gone bad and was crawling with maggots. The director used multiple close-ups to expose the spoiled beef to the audience. The officer on the ship took the glasses and searched carefully and repeatedly on the beef covered with maggots, but claimed that there was no trace of corruption at all. Even if the two lenses were overlapped, even if the maggots would climb out of the screen, he was still proud. Weighed, the beef was not bad. In today's terms, this is simply "talking nonsense with open eyes" and "reversing black and white".
It's just that I didn't expect that the world will be the same in almost a hundred years. Corrupt officials are rampant, black and white are reversed, and it is difficult to have absolute fairness where there are people. This piece of beef aroused strong dissatisfaction among the sailors. They began to resist, and then came the suppression of the officers. Only death can stabilize the hearts of the army. As a result, the sailors are about to face extinction. Before death came, the sailors fought bravely to save themselves and shouted loudly. Evil cannot defeat justice, oppression will usher in resistance, and in the end, the officers were pushed into the sea, and the sailors won the final victory.
It's just that the first person to riot was executed first, and his death was heavy and worthwhile. His death attracted the attention of the citizens of Odessa, who felt sympathy for the suffering of the sailors, who stood by them, who stood in solidarity with them, slogans after wave after wave, shouts resounding, and the passion and enthusiasm of the masses were overwhelmed Incited to the climax. It is precisely this group-style "carnival" that lays the foreshadowing of the killing and abuse they are about to encounter. How excited they are now, how helpless they will be in the future.
The gunshots of the army broke this exciting moment, and the citizens fled in all directions. This is the famous "Odessa Staircase", and the short stairs seem to be very long under the montage editing. Soldiers marched in one step, killing anyone they saw, regardless of gender, age, or age, just like a killing machine. The mother who lost her beloved son, the helpless old man, they hoped to talk to the army, but they were shot and killed. The army is a killing machine, how can there be any emotion at all? This is still the case today. The final victims of wars and riots will eventually be the unarmed people. They have become the supporters of the war and the victims of the war. They cannot escape or escape.
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