SOVIET MONTAGE:

Sergei Eisenstein
1905 uprising

Battleship Potemkin (1925):

• Planned as part of a cycle of films about the Revolution (along with Strike and October)
• Tells about an episode of the 1905 revolt

Sergei Eisenstein:

• Didactic and always channel an ideological message
• No hero (well-rounded individual)
• Masses, classes, types
• Juxtaposition of unrelated expressive images in a rapid succession

Montage:

• Creates metaphors
• Innocence vs Violence
• Soldiers as depersonalized graphic lines moving forward, citizens of Odessa as individuals (close ups)

Difference in perspective:

• Soldiers are in control they move downwards
• Victims perspective is from below