"Battleship Potemkin" after watching

Annette 2022-03-22 09:02:01

Battleship Potemkin 1925 Watching old movies set a new record again! Movies from 92 years ago! I mainly came to watch it after watching various college movie textbooks that were deceived and deceived. However, this movie is still not to the appetite of today's people, and the viewing process is not so interesting. Director Eisenstein shot "Odessa Stairs" in those days. It is said that even his opponent Goebbels praised him. However, now that this kind of montage editing has become commonplace, what impressed me deeply is the shaping of the tense atmosphere of the final preparation and the excellent soundtrack. Today we watch this film mainly with a grateful state of mind. Watching a silent film turned out to be an unexpectedly interesting experience. The novelty of this film is that the subtitles of contemporary American silent films, such as "The Gold Rush", are mainly character dialogues, but this film uses subtitles for the psychological description of the characters and the description of the environment. To put it bluntly, it is a narration! Much more poetic language than Hollywood. This film is a tribute film to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 Russian Sailor Uprising. But I did experience a strong and uncomfortable ideological indoctrination. The film is unmistakably anti-Christian, pro-Jewish, and indoctrinates its audience with communist ideas. The people's shouting and ripping their clothes in anger in the film may have been noble and upright 92 years ago, but today they show terrifying fanaticism and ignorance. After all, modern people have an advantage in watching old movies. We know that Stalin came later, and we know what the truth is, but Eisenstein did not.

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  • Alphonso 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    What you should always care about is the existence of technology. Don't forget the existence of technology and look at each moment as a story. The thematic interpretation brought by the montage will be boring.

  • Rosalee 2022-04-21 09:02:28

    Great movie, great editing, great ladder. Eisenstein's Time-lapse Montage + Golden Ratio. Not only the editing of Odessa Ladder is amazing, but the emotional editing of the whole film (from big to small) is amazing. Among them, the use of a large number of empty shots, fast and smooth editing, are also interspersed with some moving shots, as well as translation and jump cuts.

Battleship Potemkin quotes

  • Matyushenko: To the turret... Guys! It's time!

  • Commander Golikov: Back, scoundrels! That way is not for you! I'll shoot you all like dogs!