Ivan the Terrible Part I

Upon watching the first part of Ivan the Terrible, I actually would not have guessed that this was an Eisenstein film. To be honest, I like Battleship Potemkin better than this film. The actors in this film were just too over bearing with their movements ecpecally Ivan. When he is "dying" he just has too much energy to be dying. He throwing himself all of the place which would be possible if he was really dying. Ivan also did not seem like the best leader. He was easily pursuaded to go a different way. You also could not really tell who his true friends are. Ivan seems to be loyal and he wants to make a different for Russia. The Boyars just want power. They want to control everything. They do not want to share power and when their chance comes to take over power they try with everything they have to take control.