According to Tyler, “cinema was the ideal propaganda weapon for the second quarter of the twentieth century.” With the spread of communism in USSR in the 1920s, Soviet films- especially soviet montage was influenced by it. This essay will be exploring the ways in which Soviet montage film form or aesthetics have been affected by state ideology. In 1905, there was a turmoil and social unrest in Russia. Russian citizens, especially working class, who were outraged at their government began to demand their rights for democratic elections, essential freedom. (Fighter, Fighter and profile, 2017)
Finally, in 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia. For about eight months, Russian government was under the rule of a democratic government and the Bolshevik party became to control the government. With their Marxist ideals of Communism, the USSR was formed and Russia became a Communist state. It finished …show more content…
The salient aspect of Soviet Montage style is editing area. Edited cuts should captivate the viewers. For example, Lev Kuleshov who is an early filmmaker with this theory had experiment to prove how differently spectators react to image, depending on how they are combined together. In his experiment, he showed a close-up of an actor’s face with a shot of a coffin, soup and a beautiful woman. Even though each of close-up shots were exactly the same footage, audience thought them in different way that the man would be sad, hungry or lustful. Thus, the meaning of a film is not inherent in the images themselves. Intercutting shots of a man with variety of other images, Kuleshov proved that editing has effects on interpretation and perception. This experiment is significant in the way that it led the improvement of montage theory and many Soviet filmmakers to notice the juxtaposition of images side by side can create new
Finally, in 1917, two revolutions swept through Russia. For about eight months, Russian government was under the rule of a democratic government and the Bolshevik party became to control the government. With their Marxist ideals of Communism, the USSR was formed and Russia became a Communist state. It finished …show more content…
The salient aspect of Soviet Montage style is editing area. Edited cuts should captivate the viewers. For example, Lev Kuleshov who is an early filmmaker with this theory had experiment to prove how differently spectators react to image, depending on how they are combined together. In his experiment, he showed a close-up of an actor’s face with a shot of a coffin, soup and a beautiful woman. Even though each of close-up shots were exactly the same footage, audience thought them in different way that the man would be sad, hungry or lustful. Thus, the meaning of a film is not inherent in the images themselves. Intercutting shots of a man with variety of other images, Kuleshov proved that editing has effects on interpretation and perception. This experiment is significant in the way that it led the improvement of montage theory and many Soviet filmmakers to notice the juxtaposition of images side by side can create new