Bringing an epic revolution to the screen

Talia 2021-12-20 08:01:14

Textbook piece. There are expert comments, not one sentence comment.

Wayne 2022-03-25 09:01:10

9/10. The angry waves on the shore and the mighty black smoke of the Potemkin, the two sailors who supported the revolution and the officers who shuttled through the hammock, divided the two camps by the contrast between anger and might, light and shadow. In the scene of refusing to eat borscht, the officer in the shadow glanced at the bright sailor, followed by a series of alternate shots of the rapid trumpet sound and the movement of the sailors rushing to the deck to gather, which contained rational anger, and shot the violating soldiers. The white canvas is like a shroud, the panorama of the fort, the hand knocking on the cross, and the close-up of the officer's face combined with the hand touching the saber, highlight the rhythm and express the darkness of the old forces. The scene of the protest rally of mourning sailors, from gray sail shadows to makeshift tents, turning seawater into tears, connecting the red flag symbolizing anger by candlelight beside the corpse, permeates emotionality into the landscape. The small boats where the people delivered food sailed to the ships, the tsarist army was lined up neatly and slaughtered the panicked crowd from top to bottom, the rebellious battleships waved to each other, several visual climaxes from the number of more and less, the composition layout of straight lines and arcs, and waving. The positional change of , creating a musical structure of poetic repetition and variation of various images.