![]() Kuleshov is also known for a series of experiments he conducted such as the fabricated landscape (shooting two actors in separate parts of a city and using editing to make them look like they are together) and the famous Mozzhoukin experiment in which he showed that an editor can create the illusion of emotion on an actor’s face by cutting to various things the actor would be looking at (Gomery 116). Kuleshov postulated that a single shot is not influenced by the whole context of the film, as postulated by Hollywood, but simply by the shots before and after it. ![]() The resulting sequence was a gut wrenching spectacle drawing all of the audience into sympathy with the Soviet Revolution.ĭespite Eisenstein’s significant advances within the Soviet Montage movement, the real father of the movement was Lev Kuleshov. In the editing he juxtaposes shots of people fleeing down the steps, a mother seeing her son trampled to death before she is gunned down, and perhaps the most iconic shot of a stroller rolling down the stairs amidst gunfire and dead bodies (Battleship Potemkin). While other directors may have chosen to focus on one specific character, Eisenstein follows many people through the sequence in order to give it more of a real world tone (Gomery 127). Going against normal techniques of organized, smooth editing Eisenstein created this segment as a combination of various uneven and jolting shots in order to agitate and shock the audience into the gravity of the situation presented. The Odessa Steps Sequence is the most often shown film segment in college film courses (Gomery 127). It was in this sequence that Eisenstein made famous his editing technique which was known as “Soviet Montage.” While other editing techniques, such as French Mise-en-scene have come into respected use in film Soviet Montage remains one of the most influential techniques to be used in modern cinema. Within this film is one of the most famous film sequences to have ever been made: “The Odessa Steps Sequence” (Gomery 127). Commissioned by the government to commemorate the twenty year anniversary, Sergei Eisenstein directed the film “Bronenosets Potyomkin” (“Battleship Potemkin”). In year 1925, the twentieth anniversary of the 1905 Russian Revolution, a piece of cinema history was created. ![]()
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