Movie Note 010: Battleship Potemkin

Kylie 2021-12-20 08:01:14

Narrative: The
dispute between the low-level soldiers and high-level officers on the battleship escalated over the carrion issue. The captain decided to execute the rebelling soldiers to cause a rebellion (uprising). The low-level soldiers succeeded in occupying the battleship but the leading soldiers died. The bodies of the victims were placed on the shore, and the city people came to pay their respects and decided to resist. They delivered food to the soldiers on the battleship, and they were officially suppressed on the steps, and the battleship shelled the official headquarters. The battleship decided to hit the incoming fleet head-on. As it approached, while preparing for battle, it sent a semaphore signal to the soldiers of the fleet requesting to join an uprising. The soldiers of the fleet that had not fired the last bomb also successfully rebelled and joined forces.

Lens language:
1. Use editing to deal with time, zoom in and prolong behavioral actions or events, so as to emphasize the prominence and the impact of the lens. For example, the plate throwing and trumpet blowing at the 14th minute, the action of throwing and blowing, the use and editing of multi-camera scenes, and the final battle preparation period.
2. Use the editing to deal with the movement, decompose and reorganize the elements in the event movement, create and strengthen the rhythm conflict (relationship) and atmosphere. For example, the Odessa ladder: sailing towards the battleship -> the soldiers on the battleship greet the sailing -> the meeting of the two sides -> the crowd waving on the distant ladder, the direction of movement, the two spaces connected by the movement (the movement of the sailing vessel connects the stairs and The people of the battleship); in the suppression at the steps, (the steps of the officers and soldiers <—> the escape of the masses) -> the same picture of the women holding the children and the officers and soldiers -> (the baby carriage that rolled down <—> the wounded were slaughtered in terror Close-up), the elements of the opposing sides in the event movement (the pace of officers and soldiers, guns) representative characters (women holding children, women with glasses, strollers) extracted cross clips.
3. The meanings (symbols) are abundant, the opening waves hit the shore, many close-ups of the boiling soup, the hanging rack of the shaking soup basin, the hanging glasses, the candle in the hand of the victim, the stone lion being bombarded, turning A variety of symbolic sceneries are used to express the atmosphere or meaning.
4. The last shot, the bow of the approaching ship shot from above, the feeling of crushing power.

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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.