Saturday, 28 January 2012


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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