The Battleship Potemkin

Usman Ologunebi Mr. Clapham Cinema, Class E 24 October 2014 Trimester Essay “Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.” The film is composed of five different acts, each portraying different concepts and meanings. Act IV: “Odessa Steps Sequence” is one of the most admired scenes of the film. “It has been described as one of the most influential scenes in the history of cinema because the concepts of film editing and montage were introduced to cinema.” Sergei Eisenstein believed that creating ideas together would produce a greater meaning than individual images. The “Odessa Steps Sequence” could be analyzed from three distinct perspectives: art, business, and technology. From an art perspective, Eisenstein…

Battleship Potemkin 'Odessa Steps Sequence' Analysis: Chaos vs Order 1925’s Battleship Potemkin is most famous today for its revolutionary use of montage, effectively used to align order and organization with evil and disorder and chaos with good. This alignment is evident throughout the film, but it is most conspicuous in the famed Odessa Steps Sequence. All 2 minutes of footage is packed with symbolism and visual metaphor, revealing the incessant brutality of the Cossacks against Odessa’s…

Battleship Potemkin Battleship Potemkin is a revolutionary film that was shot in 1925 with a political purpose as well as protecting the blacks from the Abortive Revolution. Potemkin film is paramount in watching since it gives an experience that transcends on its landmark and its milestone status. Its dazzling technique makes it unique, and the revolutionary service gives a lot experience to the viewers. In this case, the filmmaker was trying to inform us how the massacre on the Odessa steps…

Battleship Potemkin, a Bolshevik propaganda film from 1925, impresses upon its audience the validity of the new Communist regime in Russia by presenting an idealized microcosm of the Bolshevik revolution on the battleship Prince Tavrichesky. Battleship Potemkin curates its audience’s reaction through the rise and fall of tension, which it does most prominently through the synergy of camera shot placement, camera shot order and music. Battleship Potemkin cycles through periods of calm, tension,…

at this point the peasants were becoming urbanized and now gaining a new worldview. This is when class deviation become prominent and it is shown in the film Battleship Potemkin, when the soldiers were treated unfairly and given poor living conditions. Poverty was not only an issue in Russia, this is still very present and alive around the world. In American the poverty rate is as high as 14.3 percent and in California alone 38 percent of the community lives below the poverty level and that is…

``The Battleship Potemkin'' has been so famous for so long that it is almost impossible to come to it with a fresh eye. It is one of the fundamental landmarks of cinema. Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps has been quoted so many times in other films (notably in ``The Untouchables'') that it's likely many viewers will have seen the parody before they see the original. The film once had such power that it was banned in many nations, including its native Soviet Union. Governments actually…

training scene follows the rules of metric/rhythmic montage so closely. Metric montage is structured by showing a series of related (or unrelated) images that are cut into equal lengths. It is even said that a metric montage allows for the viewer to almost ‘clap [their] hands to the beat’ (R.N.S, pg 2). These ideas of metric montage all ring true within the case of the training montages within Rocky. In most of these training regiment scenes, the shots become somewhat progressively faster,…

In Part Four: The Odessa Staircase of Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein uses the various techniques stated in his “Methods of Montage.” Specifically, we look at the scene in which the mother begins to run down the steps with her son by the hand. The establishing shot is in the Odessa steps (i.e. the staircase) since it tells us where the scene will take place. It starts with a rhythmic montage because the music playing in the background is determined by the content of the scene. The visual…

Dialectical Montage as a Vehicle for Political Messaging Sergei Eisenstein expertly uses dialectical montage to demonstrate the plight of Russians in the midst of the revolution in his silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925). Specifically in the massacre on the Odessa Steps scene, montage editing helps convey exaggerated feelings of fear and helplessness in the context of the political state in Russia; the famous and fictitious scene posits political unrest and terror associated with the…

The American Navy and Merchant Marine both possess a longstanding history of prowess showcased by their perseverance through the changing times, adapting to the trials of advancement as a ship would adapt to the changing of the tides. The further advancement of technology during the 19th and 20th Centuries brought about a shift in the maritime and wartime industries, gone were the looming hulls of vast wooden ships to be replaced by the thick, steel riveted hulls of naval battleships, carriers,…