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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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Eisenstein shooting Potemkin
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Planned as a part of a cycle of films about the Revolution (along with Strike and October);
Tells about an episode of the 1905 revolt (suppressed);
Myth-making, but relatively true to the historical events (not in details!)
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Historically:
11 days of mutiny on Potemkin;Hailed by the population of Odessa;Unrest in the city suppressed;No support from other ships;Ran out of food and fuel, fled to
Romania;No significant political outcome.
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Battleship Potyomkin (1925)
Five parts (reels) introduced by intertitles:
ReelOne: Men and Maggots Rotten meat, doctor refuses to see the maggots, image of glassesReel Two: Drama on the Quarterdeck Refusal to eat soup – cornered on the deck, refusal to fire on
comrades, mutiny, Vakulinchuk’s deathReel Three: Appeal from the Dead Vakulinchuk’s body brought to Odessa, shrine, mourning, raising
of red flagReel Four: The Odessa Steps Fraternization of sailors and townspeople. Sailboats bring food to
ship. Soldiers massacre people on steps. Battleship fires on army headquarters.
Reel Five: Meeting the squadron Night of suspense, the engines of ship fired up. Ship passes
triumphantly through squadron sent to suppress mutiny.
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General Characteristics
Eisenstein’s films are didactic: they always channel an ideological message;
There is no hero (well-rounded individual) in his early films: there are masses, classes, types;
Montage of attractions: juxtaposition of unrelated expressive images in a rapid succession (technique influenced by D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, 1916).
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Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1919)
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Montage
Creates metaphors (ex., lions); Innocence vs violence (ex., the face of the
woman – the rows of soldiers with bayonets lowered);
Soldiers as depersonalized graphic lines moving forward; citizens of Odessa as individuals (close-ups);
Difference in perspective: soldiers are in control, move downwards; victims’ perspective is from below.
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Hand-painted flag