1925: How Sergei Eisenstein Used Montage To Film The Unfilmable
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Sergei Eisenstein pioneered the theory of the intellectual montage to express ideas tough film in a new way. He used the his new theory of montage to explore the themes of tsarists oppression in The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.
You have explained a difficult concept beautifully with wonderfully chosen examples ... thoroughly enjoying watching all your videos .. please keep making them for all us cinefiles out there
Eisenstein apparently was also a MASSIVE fan of Disney Animation and even visited the Disney HQ/Animation Studios in Burbank, California during a trip to the USA. Apparently, he even had plans to collaborate with Walt on some kind of film project but nothing ever materialized from it.
Which is crazy, because Sergei Eisenstein and Walt Disney are absolute polar opposites - politically speaking. They could not be more diametrically opposed to one another. But they found a common ground in a love for the medium of animation and film.
Interessting.
I know it’s been a time, but do you remember having any sources? I’m currently studying Sergei’s work and I’m interested on it. If you don’t remember or don’t have time to find it, no problem, I’ll try to find another way.
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@@ashsummermakaio4756 did you find any sources? I'm a student too and I'd like to know
@@octoberbabybee I’ve actually found some stuffs on the internet! It wasn’t so hard as I thought. If it helps, there is a Wikipedia article about it (at least had) and I found most sources there.
@@ashsummermakaio4756 Oh thank you! I thought it'd be harder to find sources since it's a pretty interesting piece of information but have never heard of it before. i'll search for the article, thanks!
Great video! As a Japanese culture bachelor, I'd like to add that the insights for Eisenstein's montage theory came from his readings of Japanese poetry and theater, especially haiku and kabuki; and from his interpretations on the ideograms
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A lot of "Potemksial"...
This is so useful snd pleasurable, it quite brings back student days of happy lectures and renewed discovery. Some of Eisenstein's genius I had, dare I say, almost come to take for granted. Thanks.
A fantastic overview, great visual examples - this channel needs 1M+ subs!
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These are so well conceived and delivered. I feel like I have found a gem, look forward to seeing the next one!
So many homages to moments in Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin e.g in The Untouchables and Brazil
Did you know that Odessa is a region between Russia and Ukraine?
it was my favorite movie as a child. I watched it on VHS over and over again. I know every scene, my favorites were the steps up the Richeliesta steps and the Cossack corps.
5:26 reminds me how Eisenstein's film Strike! ends with cows being slaughtered
Coppola is a big fan of Eisenstine, so it might be a direct reference.
Excellent analysis. Creating the third meaning is powerful when done right. The Confomist uses this technique often.
Eisenstein - the pioneer of montage 🙏🏼
Eisenstein was truly pushing the art of cinema
Fantastic! Great synopsis with excellent visual examples. I'm just getting acquainted with the theory of montage and this helps a lot. Eisenstein is everything!
Спасибо за рассказ, друг!
Woody Allen used the lion statue sequence to convey a different meaning in Love and Death.
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Love the lion rising effect
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Superbly done. And very tasteful
This was watched for my Film 1895 to 1945 class and Sergei Einstein is a pretty interesting person.
this was a very good piece . . . thank you
this was very well made, and informational. Thank you!!
I cannot see how 1925 can pass by without an extra programme covering BEN HUR, possibly the greatest silent epic.
Good stuff. Hadn't seen the Scorsese nod to BP...🤩👌
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Eisenstein is such a genius
excellent - thank you so much!
3 methods of montage
*tells us 5*
The Godfather intellectual cut is a great example
The Apocalypse now one as well!
GREAT ARTICLE THANKS !
Great video.
The full movie's here with English subtitles: ruclips.net/video/S47T8nkRFmc/видео.html
Very good video, hes googles theme today so i wanted to learn about him.
very nice!
A method of adding structure in cinema
Could you explain the reason the flag is red in your video? I've never seen that before and can't find it.
Great video!
In the early days of film there were quite a few different ways of getting colour into film, some where photo-chemical processes, some involved capturing images on different colours film strips and projecting them together. One of the most common techniques in very early cinema involved hand painting each frame with the color you wanted (a really good example of this is A Trip to the Moon from 1901, it's available on YT)
I cant say for sure, but it's most likely the red color was painted on frame by frame in post production. That's why the colour sometimes looks like it expanding from the flag.
If you want to know more I have a video all about early colour cinema called '1926:the origin of color cinema'
wd be nice to have the name of the cinematographic investigator...
I think you made a good choice in doing this video without the sort of pearl-clutching moral analysis you gave us in your _Birth Of A Nation_ video. This is a much more mature approach. Viewers are intelligent enough to make their own moral evaluations of controversial films.
You have an awesome channel. Keep up the great work!
Also not to displace the people with a certain opinion...
He's probably a communist sympathizer, unfortunately
Agreed!
My favorite Russian films of all time
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Hi can you please explain me this montage examples? I also a fellow film student like you.
Cherry Pie sadly I don’t really understand. My teacher’s tried explaining it to me but I still don’t get it. Sorry, I hope you find examples needed.
@@HannahLJ yeah really.
I searched bt But I didt get much. I undrstood a general idea of Montage bt explaining it's different types with examples that's the hard one and that's wht I could not get .
Cherry Pie Soviet montage is so complicated. The film itself is complicated too.
Wonderful!
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*applause*
Studying film school now and this has been a lot more educational there some of my units... but where are the references?!?!
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What film of his did he attempt overtonal montage?
The general line. But this video describes overtonal wrong way. The example he made is not especially overtonal. It's more intelectual montage than overtonal.
3:40 is...is that Jared Leto?
Sergei lowkey looked like Mark Ronson at 0:36
Not the techniques but the way you use them differentiates between louse and master filmmakers :D For instance, intellectual montage is particularly annoying when it fails.
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Hmm, I never thought of montage being used intelligently. I always thought it was just used to get through a scene quickly
Montage was also used according to Sergei’s theory leading up to the intertitle, “Kill the Jews!” In a crescendo, the music reaches a feverish pitch, after the intertitles: “All for one and one for All!” (39:57), “Down with the Butchers!” (40:58), “Death to Tsarism!” (41:20), then at the precise musical resolution and climax: “KILL THE JEWS!” (41:55). The music (thesis) is juxtaposed against the narrative presented visually (antithesis), concluding with the synthesis of tone and meaning, with the intertile “Kill the Jews!” The director is persuading the viewer to amalgamate hate for the Tsar and “the butchers”, while espousing “unity”, and to include hate for the Jews in this intellectual conclusion. Paradoxically, Eisenstein was Jewish on his paternal grandparents side.
Did we watch the same film? The "kill the jews" is in contrast to the other shouts, not their conclusion. The crowd immediately turns on the anti-semite in anger.
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Great vid, eventhough you stole all the examples from Brucke Kasin’s book How Movies Work
HEY! I stole from other places too!
weirdly, almost everything in this video came from research somewhere. However, not How Movies Work, because I found out about it from this comment, and have just ordered it now.
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3:10 "3 methods of montage"
3:11 lists 5
kinda ironic that a video about editing couldn't even do the most basic edits of its own
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And when they called tarantino a genius
More than one genius can exist
La corazzata Potëmkin è una cagata pazzesca!
Still salty over the Russo-Japanese war?
Made no sense !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂🎉
Thank you for unnecessarily including the murder of an animal in this.
Is the usage of a real, non-acted scene even the same kind of montage? He is mixing documentary and acted movie together.
the narrator may not be able to help having a grating lancashire accent but he could at least learn the correct pronunciation of proper nouns. William Friedkin is "freedkin" and Sergei is "SIRgay" nor "sir zhay". incorrect pronunciation detracts from the credibility of the narrative
well scripted but would be even better if the narrator tried to neutralise his severe lancashire accent
Love Soviets movie!
I suspect that Peckinpah was one of Eisenstein"s disciples.