Battleship Potemkin: Silent Symphony and Dramatic Structure

Virginie 2022-03-25 09:01:10

The music in "Battleship Potemkin" is magnificent, full of passion, full of poetic and pictorial, and escaping the style of epic. Just imagine, if there is no ups and downs music in the film, then the Soviet port, the sailing flag, the sparkling water surface, the various crowd of sailors and officers under the gray and black image of this silent film may be like the magic in "Harry Potter". Medicine Professor Snape's basement was eerie, dark and silent. The use of Shostakovich's Fifth and Eleventh symphonies in the film is brilliant, precise and brilliant. There are no intimidating gunshots, deafening chopping meat, the cries of the dead, and the clamor of dense crowds in the silent film, but the wonderful running through of director Eisenstein's ups and downs of symphony, not badly interprets the musical narrative in the film. It's seamless, silent is better than sound, as if being in a Quidditch match, as moving and magnificent. The dramatic structure of the film is also impressive. The classic five-act tragic structure has a natural structure and is advanced layer by layer. The spirit of logic and rationality is clearly revealed. Although it is under the same theme, the two are opposite and contradictory. Lines make the film's highs and lows tense and regular. Although the film's strong ideological propaganda and strong director's intention make the film a fly in the ointment, it does not hide its shortcomings. "Battleship Potemkin" is undoubtedly a magnificent and epic classic film, which has far-reaching influence on countless later films.

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Extended Reading
  • Micheal 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    Inside the film is the October Revolution, outside the film is Eisenstein's montage revolution. Colored red flags, close-ups of clenched fists, the ratio of the golden ratio; a section of the Odessa ladder has long been the content of all textbooks, 155 shots in 7 minutes, classic use of juggling montage and rational montage, time-lapse effect. The interior of the screen is flat and the information is single.

  • Kayley 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    After reading it, I still don't quite understand vertical montage, attraction montage, juggling montage, sound and picture counterpoint. "Fast, powerful montages create almost abstract clashes...Technically proud, with a sense of speed, emotionally uninvolved, while the insertion of symbolic metaphors is pedantic and embarrassing"

Battleship Potemkin quotes

  • Chief Officer Giliarovsky: The sailors refused to eat the borscht.

  • Commander Golikov: Whoever is satisfied with the borscht take two steps forward!