The battleship Potemkin is a drama film depicting the revolutionary movement of the Soviet Union. It is divided into five chapters. It tells the story of the inhuman treatment of the sailors on the battleship, which caused their dissatisfaction and led to an uprising. After all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, they finally succeeded. . 1. Historical background: a typical product of the Soviet montage movement 2. Narrative (1) Directly locate the protagonist as a certain group and make it a class or occupation symbol, which is more realistic. (2) There are two pairs of contrasts, the sailors are positioned as the fighting proletariat, and the captain doctor is a dictator who is complicit and turns a blind eye to the suffering (the sailors on the Potemkin found the flesh full of maggots, the first time Reported to the captain, who sent a doctor to check. The doctor was wearing glasses when he came, but he took off the glasses before the examination, and then told the sailors that "there is nothing in the flesh", and put them back on after the examination. Going back to the glasses. From this simple lens connection of one pick and one wearing, it shows that those in power "turn a blind eye" to the plight of ordinary people, and satirize their "pretend to be invisible".); Humane soldiers, and innocent people (including the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and the pregnant) once again formed a contrast. 3. Audio-visual (1) It is very suitable for the characteristics of the montage movement. The lens is short and fixed. Even the large panorama is spliced with small lenses. In many cases, only editing is used to show complex spaces. (2) Focus on conflict, one is the conflict in mise-en-scene. For example, in the scene where the sailor throws a plate, the sailor’s horizontally striped clothes just contrast with the vertical striped wallpaper in the background, which subtly increases the expressiveness of this scene. In the Sade ladder type, soldiers oppressed innocent people from top to bottom, until there were lying corpses below, which also caused an impact on the screen; It is connected with the two shots with a huge difference in the angle of the upward shot, forming an amazing image contrast between the shots, such as the picture of the sailor eating on the deck, which also strengthens the connection between the characters and the background, and makes up for the short shot to a certain extent. Lack of continuity. (3) Overlapping clips, such as the scene of throwing a plate, elongated and emphasized these few seconds of action. (4) Fast-paced editing, such as shooting and killing a sailor, ending clips, as well as riots, Osad stairs, etc., the camera is constantly switching back and forth between several pictures and parts, breaking through the limitations of scenes and enhancing the thrill The atmosphere is different from that of the French Impressionists who like to express the psychology of the protagonist with fast-paced editing. (5) Use a separate close-up of the scene as a symbolic metaphor, such as the typical "roar of a stone lion", and quickly edit three lion pictures, namely the sleeping lion, the lying lion, and the awakening lion. The lion in the picture is not an ornament in the scene, it represents the process of the broad masses of people, from silently enduring the cruel rule of the Tsar to being completely provoked and resisting. There are also priests' crosses, dictator glasses, red flags dyed red, and so on. (6) As a classic clip, the Osad Ladder uses acrobatic montage to weaken the order and logic of time and space. It shows various contrasts and thrills through quick editing, and the oppression of the soldiers and the innocence of the masses are prominently displayed. 4. The influence has a profound influence on the montage movement. Even if this kind of strong editing style is no longer popular in the future, this movement has also made the editing art of movies deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The director Eisenstein also left many theoretical works, expressing rational film and Attractive montage concept.
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