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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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"This film is first and foremost an object of communist propaganda. It was directed by Sergei Eisenstein in 1925, and it glorifies the mutiny on the ship against the officers of the czar in 1905. The film is silent, and it is more noted today for its use of montage than for its message. Eisenstein's direction is far ahead of its day, foretelling many of our modern techniques. The story is that the men on board the ship are routinely flogged, fed rotted meat, and treated as subhuman scum by the officers. At the point where they rebel, a dozen or so men are going to be shot for not eating their soup. (Yes, really - not eating their soup was correctly viewed as insubordination.) The enlisted crew convince the armed guards to come over to the side of rebellion, and they take over the ship. All of the officers disappear, and we never learn their fate. One sailor is killed by an officer, though, and his body is taken into the port of Odessa where it lies in state. The thousands of citize ... "
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"Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg) I watched this one because it was on the same DVD as Zemlya (Earth). I was so dreading watching another of these old Russian propaganda films after my experiences with them continued to get worse and worse. But this one was actually on the better side of tolerable. It actually had a bit of a plot and characters I could follow. It even had some moments that I would call exciting! And Pudovkin's comedy short Chess Fever which is also included on this DVD was even more amusing. Was this experience enough to entice me to seek out more Russian films in this category and era? No, not really. I've had my fill for quite a while really. But if you decide you'd like to see one yourself and you've already seen Battleship Potemkin, then this one is a decent choice. Rating: 6/10 "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry. Stachka (Strike) I think I may have seen enough old Russian films now to realize I'm just not going to get a lot of enjoyment or interest out of them. I've been watching them because of their reverence in the world of cinema history. Many Russian filmmakers of the 20s were considered to be pioneers of editing theory. If you want a lot of wild montage and cuts you can see it with these guys. Many people have criticized what's called MTV style of editing to contributing to recent society’s attention deficit disorders, but if you look back to these films it's not much different. Now some of these films of course had different goals. I think you could call a lot of this stuff by Eisenstein propaganda. "
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"Publisher Quirk Books and author Seth Grahame-Smith have come up with the best way to make a literary work more accessible since the creation of Classics Illustrated comic books: they’ve added “all-new scenes of bone crunching zombie action” to Jane Austen’s 19th century novel Pride and Prejudice. This new version, out in stores this May, is titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem! And if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece before, chances are you will now. Could we do the same thing to classic films? Well, the technology to add extraneous enhancements to movies exists. Just check out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for proof. But like Pride and Prejudice, we’d need to “enhance” films in the public domain if we wanted to get away with it. Fortunately, there are hundreds of such titles (
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"A powerful retelling of a tragic occurrence in five parts, Battleship Potemkin plays very much like a faux documentary with its pulse-poundingly intrepid score underlying each magnificently edited moment. The universally gawked over fourth part of the film is entirely justified in its acclaim; "The Odessa Steps" sequence is nothing short of spectacular and remains as poignant now as it undoubtedly did more than 80 years ago. Shocking, emotional and ultimately uplifting, Battleship Potemkin is a must-see, even for those that guffaw at the thought of sitting through a silent film. "
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"My knowledge of acting talent from the silver screen days is limited. But I do really dig this idea of what would a film would mean if it were in a different era?Like Fight Club. I think if it were set at the turn of the century, it would probably be close to Battleship Potemkin. When you think of the political unrest between the very rich and the very poor, I think Battleship distilled into film that general sense of unrest the way Fight Club distilled into film how the ideal middle-class existence is really boring, even insanity inducing. Both films had the same result: men revolting.In the reverse scenario, a film I'd love to see done today is Treasure of the Sierra Madre. With all of prerequisite post-WWII gags and the ethnocentric portrayal of Mexicans stripped out, I think the guts of that flick make a great story about relationships falling apart the closer people get to having what they've always wanted. "
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