montage of victory

Rosemarie 2022-03-25 09:01:10

The title of the film is "It's a Great Movie". The reason is that the film deeply expresses the montage art essence of the former Soviet film master Sergei Eisenstein. Perhaps the significance of its existence is much more important than the film itself. Therefore, there are many deficiencies that can be ignored.

A movie loses its montage like a shadow loses its light. Shadows always exist, but only light can confirm shadows. No longer a continuation of a fixed single shot, montage endows the film with infinite expressive tension. "The alignment of two montage shots is not the sum of the two numbers, but the product of the two numbers." Think of the film as an organism, and through each single, meaningless combination of shots, naturally collide and impact each other to form a new I believe that Eisenstein shot the film with such a huge excitement at that time that he wanted to expand the effect of the montage. The tone at the front of the film is really even. Frequent switching at a constant speed, until the "Tragedy on the Deck" and "Staircase Massacre" in the back, when the mother watched the baby carriage roll down the stone steps, these climaxes appeared, the editing was precise, and the montage effect was pushed to the climax. And those three representative The lion, like this movie, stands still in history. However, it must be said that the use of montage by Grandpa Eisenstein is too obsessive.

Editing, like photography, is a technical job with high and low levels. It doesn't mean that you understand the essence of montage when you know how to assemble and synthesize images - on the contrary, how to play the role of montage well will enhance the level of a film. The American "Birth of a Nation", whose climax is known as "last minute rescue", has become one of the most commonly used methods of creating tension in later film montages. The Soviet Union's "Battleship Potemkin", a section of the Odessa Staircase is known as one of the classics in the use of montage techniques. Through the cumulative combination of different short shots, it also creates a cramped, tense, riotous, and desperate atmosphere. Another example is the sleeping lion in the film, which was later introduced to many film and television textbooks to explain, through the assembly of several single pictures of stone lions in different states, symbolizing the awakening and resistance of the people.

It is precisely because of the arbitrary assembly in the montage that enriches the language of the film, and at the same time allows the audience to have more different perspectives on the meaning of the picture and the expression of the storyline. This is the possibility of montage for images, and it is also the value of this film.

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Battleship Potemkin quotes

  • Woman Protestor: Mothers and brothers! Let there not be differences or hostility among us!

  • Sailor: Shoulder to shoulder. The land is ours. Tomorrow is ours.