Thursday, January 8, 2009
Battleship Potemkin
Today's film was better than the films we watched yesterday. There was more action and violence, which I believe can draw many more people to it. Just like in today's films, everyone loves a good action packed movie. Even though this was no James Bond film, it was good considering the time it was made and the technology during then. One thing I did notice was the RED flag that was flown and it did show up in the black and white as RED. People must of thought that was amazing that there was a color in their films. As a political film, I think it would of been a little borderline. You have a crew that over throws their senior officers and take control of a battleship with loads of ammunition and firepower. Even though they come back and show no mercy against the towns people, this could get the crowd thinking that taking over a battleship is possible. But also on the flip side, they scared them with the killings in town. As entertainment goes, I think Sergei Eisenstein hit it right on the head for that era and time. I'm not saying that the films we watched yesterday were boring, these film just portray to me more than those three did.
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There is a bit of controversy whether the flag would have been actually colored red for the initial showings of the film--but recent scholarship has suggested that this was indeed the case. If they indeed did do this, the color seems to add a strange new dimension to the film--perhaps in a way that might be compared to how the Revolution interjected itself into Russian (and world) history.
ReplyDeleteThe book mentioned on page 39 that Eisenstein had hand-painted the red for the flag on the reel. I'm sure for the era this was breathtaking as you discussed to see such vivid color in such a gray color scheme...
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