RE: ADSactly Cinema: Filmmakers and essential films: Sergei Eisenstein and *The Battleship Potemkin*
Hi @josemalavem. Fantastic! You make a truly meticulous article with the presentation of an indispensable filmmaker for movie lovers. Sergei Eisenstein and The Battleship Potemkin is a film that we should see once and I'm sure we would see it 2 or 3 times later to discover details that would go unnoticed at first glance.
The stairs of Odessa is my favorite part because there is the whole Theory of montage up to that time. Only that part is a masterpiece. And, in addition, The stairs of Odessa have been honored in other times by several filmmakers. Even in animation movies.
A fact that I do not know if you can confirm me. Even though The Battleship Potemkin is based on real events, I once read that the use of a white sheet covering the sailors, at the end of the film, before their execution, it was a recreation of Eisenstein since that fact never happened.
Excellent choice to start a film tour of filmmakers and essential films. Best regards @josemalavem
Hello, @marcybetancourt. Nice to have you as a reader.
Some scholars say that although the film was based on real facts, not everything happened as it is presented. Some even doubt that there was the mass murder on the stairs linked to the battleship mutiny. Also that the victorious end does not coincide with what happened historically, that the sailors were imprisoned and condemned to death. That's why the commentary and the quote from the end.
This is the second post in this series (the first was about Fritz Lang and Metropolis (see here), which I will alternate and dose with the series of literature. Thank you for your eyesight.