oh, and to answer Eisenstein's loaded question there, "It'll look fucking beautiful!!!"...with biiiiig nuclear power shaped apiaries an' tigers and snakes playing together an shit.....and perhaps about 1/16th of the humans there are now!!!

Funny how some of the self-proclaimed sensible and "could never happen" types cry foul at the very hint of conspiracy....that's what all this shit is Eisensteins....so many facets to the jewel of contrived worth, that it glistens-

Governments need to go....all of em, then you may be able to make rational and sensible decisions about the future of you and yours, based on meaning and not absolute horseshit.
Abortion
Civil Rights Abuses
Sexual Preference
Environmentalist Passion
Starving children
Aids in Africa.....and all the other bullshit diversions, are there for you to enjoy, and derive some false sense of satisfaction from, while the fire burns bright for the insulated few , who create this shit-Yes kiddies, could, perhaps it be, no??, yes,??? a conspiracy....??!!! Heavens!!!

upvote for, Eisenstein.....Vlad was sure a prick, wasn't he?

Kim Jung Il...Dangerous, sociopath, Prick.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ? Cocksucker, Idiot, dangerous, killer.
King Abdullah? Asshole, enabler.
Bashar al-Assad? Coward,cocksucker, killer.
Hugo Chavez? Coward, president-wannabe, asshole, killer.
King Fahd?-Evil cocksucker, Satan would be proud-
Than Shwe of Burma-evil midget dick.
Saparmurad Niyazov of Turkmenistan? Narcissist, asshole, killer.
Muammar Gaddafi?-dangerous little camel-lover.
(really has a nice pool for his cammies, though)
Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus?-Stalin-lover, carbuncle, human waste.
G.W.Bush-Dangerous, connected, from a family of privileged, pricks and assholes.

Please pray for their immediate deaths.

This should be in spanning time . . .damn you choggie kendall for ignoring the first invite. (If this is the extent of collective competition, though, then I am not too worried).

Definitely influential. Woodrow Wilson was moved to declare its "truth". Also extremely racist and xenophobic. I have to think the immigration boom, beginnings of the great migration, onset of WWI, and Chuck D's Fear of a Black Planet had something to do with that.

You see films by Eisenstein from this period and they are much, much better than this film. However, I would not argue that this one is overrated. It does a number of remarkable things with the new-fangled technology that Edison stole.

Louis D. Giannetti’s Understanding Movies:

. . . A famous sequence from Potemkin shows three shots of stone lions, one asleep, a second aroused and on the verge of rising, and a third on its feet and ready to spring. Eisentein considered the sequence an embodiment of a metaphor: “The very stones roar.” . . .

4-14a-hhh, A portion of the Odessa Steps sequence from Potemkin. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Perhaps the most famous instance of editing virtuosity of the silent cinema, the celebrated Odessa Steps sequence is a brilliant illustration of Eiesentein’s theory of collision montage in practice. The director contrasted lights and darks, vertical lines, with horizontals, lengthy shots with brief ones, close-ups with long shots, static set-ups with traveling shots, and so on.



Netflix’s description of the whole movie:

Propaganda notwithstanding, director Sergei M. Eisenstein's masterwork remains a cinematic landmark, charting events that ultimately led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Fed up with the ship's officers' brutalities and with maggot-infested rations, the crew of the battleship Prince Potemkin revolts. The rebellion ignites an uprising by the citizens of Odessa, resulting in czarist troops' infamous, systematic slaughter of insurgents and bystanders.


Compare the baby carriage scene (beginning around 5:00) to what Brian De Palma did with a baby carriage in this clip:

...The Untouchables: Train Station Shoot-out (9:04)

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=15817

>> Didn't know that dotdude, thanks.
Is this it it? (carriage sequence starts around 5:53):>>

Yes it is Firefly. I had only seen the sequence of photos in my film history textbook, Louis D. Giannetti's Understanding Movies (Second Edition). The author is discussing Eisenstein's theory of "collision of montage."

I've posted the clip now.

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=16012

Brian De Palma took the baby carriage idea from the Odessa steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's silent movie "Potemkin."