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.
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  • @jimpickard3850
    @jimpickard3850 6 років тому +67

    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

  • @arodokarne13
    @arodokarne13 7 років тому +91

    Damn, I see a lot of potential in this channel.

    • @meals5486
      @meals5486 4 роки тому

      do you want more films like this , check my channel

    • @ZerokillerOppel1
      @ZerokillerOppel1 4 роки тому +3

      A lot of "Potemksial"...

  • @CaptTerrific
    @CaptTerrific 7 років тому +112

    A fantastic overview, great visual examples - this channel needs 1M+ subs!

  • @dildonius
    @dildonius 4 роки тому +39

    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.

    • @steamboatwill3.367
      @steamboatwill3.367 3 роки тому

      Interessting.

    • @ashsummermakaio4756
      @ashsummermakaio4756 2 роки тому +2

      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.
      Thanks for reading!!

    • @SOPOAE1
      @SOPOAE1 2 роки тому +1

      @@ashsummermakaio4756 did you find any sources? I'm a student too and I'd like to know

    • @ashsummermakaio4756
      @ashsummermakaio4756 2 роки тому +1

      @@SOPOAE1 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.

    • @SOPOAE1
      @SOPOAE1 2 роки тому +1

      @@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!

  • @Tymbus
    @Tymbus 5 років тому +12

    So many homages to moments in Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin e.g in The Untouchables and Brazil

    • @marynovak5800
      @marynovak5800 Рік тому +1

      Did you know that Odessa is a region between Russia and Ukraine?

  • @gwill50
    @gwill50 7 років тому +24

    These are so well conceived and delivered. I feel like I have found a gem, look forward to seeing the next one!

  • @Krzemieniewski1
    @Krzemieniewski1 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @leonardoreis428
    @leonardoreis428 3 місяці тому

    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

  • @thiccboss4780
    @thiccboss4780 6 років тому +15

    5:26 reminds me how Eisenstein's film Strike! ends with cows being slaughtered

  • @Sameir8055
    @Sameir8055 6 років тому

    Thank you so much...!!
    This channel is going to be one of my favorite.
    Looking for more amazing stuff.

  • @leoaujero4424
    @leoaujero4424 6 років тому

    this was very well made, and informational. Thank you!!

  • @jasonallen-paisant7406
    @jasonallen-paisant7406 7 років тому +7

    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!

  • @josephcallahan1664
    @josephcallahan1664 5 років тому +2

    Excellent analysis. Creating the third meaning is powerful when done right. The Confomist uses this technique often.

  • @samsam11156
    @samsam11156 3 роки тому +4

    Woody Allen used the lion statue sequence to convey a different meaning in Love and Death.

  • @futuristica1710
    @futuristica1710 3 роки тому

    This channel is a gem!

  • @fabiesque
    @fabiesque 4 роки тому

    Superbly done. And very tasteful

  • @edwinjunior6053
    @edwinjunior6053 4 роки тому

    u just saved my life. thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much man, Bless up.

  • @theknowingcafe
    @theknowingcafe 2 роки тому

    this was a very good piece . . . thank you

  • @carlybaker1691
    @carlybaker1691 4 роки тому

    excellent - thank you so much!

  • @Lornext
    @Lornext Рік тому +4

    Eisenstein was truly pushing the art of cinema

  • @Jeannekm126
    @Jeannekm126 7 років тому +9

    Great channel. Keep going.

  • @8Dagg8
    @8Dagg8 4 роки тому +9

    Спасибо за рассказ, друг!

  • @steevrawjers
    @steevrawjers 6 років тому

    GREAT ARTICLE THANKS !

  • @cdbmada
    @cdbmada 3 роки тому

    Great video.

  • @americalost5100
    @americalost5100 3 роки тому +1

    Love the lion rising effect

  • @niharikabajaj9918
    @niharikabajaj9918 3 роки тому

    very nice!

  • @jamesm2078
    @jamesm2078 Рік тому

    This was watched for my Film 1895 to 1945 class and Sergei Einstein is a pretty interesting person.

  • @tylercsm4690
    @tylercsm4690 6 років тому

    Very good video, hes googles theme today so i wanted to learn about him.

  • @olitomar
    @olitomar 3 роки тому +1

    Good stuff. Hadn't seen the Scorsese nod to BP...🤩👌

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 5 років тому +4

    I cannot see how 1925 can pass by without an extra programme covering BEN HUR, possibly the greatest silent epic.

  • @user-yourselves47
    @user-yourselves47 26 днів тому

    Eisenstein is such a genius

  • @maxwaller734
    @maxwaller734 2 роки тому +1

    *¡watched at 11:51 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 Common Era or CE formerly known as Ano Domini or AD!*

  • @texshelters
    @texshelters 6 років тому

    Agreed!

  • @Richard-bm2gc
    @Richard-bm2gc 4 роки тому

    The full movie's here with English subtitles: ua-cam.com/video/S47T8nkRFmc/v-deo.html

  • @autonomesinklusionsreferat1251
    @autonomesinklusionsreferat1251 4 роки тому +1

    wd be nice to have the name of the cinematographic investigator...

  • @thewatcher2928
    @thewatcher2928 4 роки тому

    A method of adding structure in cinema

  • @mortiige5397
    @mortiige5397 3 роки тому +5

    3 methods of montage
    *tells us 5*

  • @Sardarkhan69
    @Sardarkhan69 3 роки тому +1

    The Godfather intellectual cut is a great example

    • @bensas42
      @bensas42 7 місяців тому

      The Apocalypse now one as well!

  • @theninkyn0nk463
    @theninkyn0nk463 3 роки тому

    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!

    • @onehundredyearsofcinema
      @onehundredyearsofcinema  3 роки тому +3

      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'

  • @heavymetalkatana
    @heavymetalkatana 7 років тому

    Wonderful!

  • @jasminecuyun4733
    @jasminecuyun4733 4 роки тому

    What film of his did he attempt overtonal montage?

    • @levanchkonia4895
      @levanchkonia4895 Рік тому

      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.

  • @stuka1977
    @stuka1977 3 місяці тому

  • @videas3582
    @videas3582 3 роки тому

    *applause*

  • @jerrygil1965
    @jerrygil1965 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite Russian films of all time

  • @monkofdarktimes
    @monkofdarktimes 7 років тому +1

    and the world was changed

  • @sculp_vetrov
    @sculp_vetrov 6 років тому +2

    Сделай субтитры к ролику и я их переведу.

  • @MARTPOP
    @MARTPOP 4 роки тому

    Sergei lowkey looked like Mark Ronson at 0:36

  • @JoshCottrell21
    @JoshCottrell21 3 роки тому

    3:40 is...is that Jared Leto?

  • @HannahLJ
    @HannahLJ 4 роки тому +3

    Anyone here for their film a level that they’re doing during lockdown ?

    • @cherrypie151
      @cherrypie151 4 роки тому

      Hi can you please explain me this montage examples? I also a fellow film student like you.

    • @HannahLJ
      @HannahLJ 4 роки тому

      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.

    • @cherrypie151
      @cherrypie151 4 роки тому +1

      @@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 .

    • @HannahLJ
      @HannahLJ 4 роки тому

      Cherry Pie Soviet montage is so complicated. The film itself is complicated too.

  • @yusefedwardsproductions2148
    @yusefedwardsproductions2148 5 років тому

    hi

  • @crimsonpyron
    @crimsonpyron 4 роки тому +1

    Studying film school now and this has been a lot more educational there some of my units... but where are the references?!?!

  • @GabyGibson
    @GabyGibson 3 роки тому

    Hmm, I never thought of montage being used intelligently. I always thought it was just used to get through a scene quickly

  • @nauka9634
    @nauka9634 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @saitamaopm7865
    @saitamaopm7865 6 років тому +10

    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!

    • @majormononoke8958
      @majormononoke8958 5 років тому +1

      Also not to displace the people with a certain opinion...

    • @doncorleone1553
      @doncorleone1553 2 роки тому

      He's probably a communist sympathizer, unfortunately

  • @kasparssarnovskis9539
    @kasparssarnovskis9539 3 роки тому

    Letiņi norm kino taisa..

  • @user-cn9lx1vd4b
    @user-cn9lx1vd4b 3 роки тому

    Aritprom -agitation industry

  • @coppersandwich
    @coppersandwich 5 років тому

    999 likes :)

  • @sirdank5422
    @sirdank5422 4 роки тому +1

    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

  • @juanvargas9
    @juanvargas9 2 роки тому +1

    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.

    • @comradehandersson7859
      @comradehandersson7859 2 роки тому +2

      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.

  • @jasonalexjones6089
    @jasonalexjones6089 4 роки тому

    Great vid, eventhough you stole all the examples from Brucke Kasin’s book How Movies Work

    • @onehundredyearsofcinema
      @onehundredyearsofcinema  4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @jasonalexjones6089
      @jasonalexjones6089 4 роки тому

      @@onehundredyearsofcinema you’ll find loads of content. people will be stealing from you

  • @999titu
    @999titu 5 років тому

    And when they called tarantino a genius

  • @danielegiovane3024
    @danielegiovane3024 3 роки тому

    La corazzata Potëmkin è una cagata pazzesca!

  • @thecheesemouse
    @thecheesemouse 5 років тому +1

    Still salty over the Russo-Japanese war?

  • @jefffriedberg
    @jefffriedberg Рік тому

    Made no sense !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂🎉

  • @frool76
    @frool76 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 3 роки тому

    well scripted but would be even better if the narrator tried to neutralise his severe lancashire accent

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 3 роки тому

    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

  • @88dillonzo
    @88dillonzo 6 років тому +3

    I suspect that Peckinpah was one of Eisenstein"s disciples.

  • @kylemiles448
    @kylemiles448 5 років тому +3

    Love Soviets movie!