Battleship
Potempkin
(Sergei
M. Eisenstein, 1925)
The
Steps sequence of Battleship Potempkin is universally one of the most
famous pieces of storytelling at the start of Hollywood, and a prime
example of editing to inform a narrative. As a silent film, it
wonderfully portrays the change from sheer joy to hysteria, through
the use of clever and well informed editing. Eisenstein cited that as
a storyteller he was most influenced by Dickens and it's quite
evident as his narrative is constructed in such a sophisticated way.
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