Montage song from South Park, Season 6.
As film continued to gain popularity, the film culture around the
world inspired various directors and auteurs to create new and exciting
films. The most influential film maker of early Russian film was Sergei Eisenstein.
Eisenstein is remembered in film for his contribution of the montage. The montage changed the way filmmakers approached film. It allows a filmmaker to tell a story through a sequence of shots that manipulate time. It is still used today and carries with it a psychological impact. In a script it is indicated by a series of descriptive lines, each spaced apart to indicate a series of shots, rather than description that would indicate one shot or scene.
Here's a few clips from some of his films:
Battleship Potemkin (Odessa Step Sequence) (1925)
Oktober
Alexander Nevsky (battle on the ice sequence) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Eisenstein is remembered in film for his contribution of the montage. The montage changed the way filmmakers approached film. It allows a filmmaker to tell a story through a sequence of shots that manipulate time. It is still used today and carries with it a psychological impact. In a script it is indicated by a series of descriptive lines, each spaced apart to indicate a series of shots, rather than description that would indicate one shot or scene.
Here's a few clips from some of his films:
Battleship Potemkin (Odessa Step Sequence) (1925)
Oktober
Alexander Nevsky (battle on the ice sequence) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Expressionism
“Why should an artist duplicate the real world when it already exists for everyone to see?”
• Begins in Europe around 1906 in painting and theatreCabinet of Dr. Caligari – Robert Weine (director) 1919
• Style is unrealistic, stylized
• Attention often given to angles
• Distorted perspectives
• Narrow, tall streets and buildings (set pieces)
• Lighting is “dramatic”; Use of shadows
• Actors are grotesque, exaggerated make-up
• Dark, nightmarish tones & moods
• Attempt to show the interior lives of characters through exteriors
• Expressionism influences Futurism (and Modernism)
• Expressionism influences Film Noir in the 1930’s
On Youtube.com, please view clips from the following:
- Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
- Wegener's Der Golem (1920)
- Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera (unmasking scene) and the Red Death Masquerade scene (1925)
- Leni's' The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Nosferatu (1922) Full film
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (full film)
Der Golem (full film)
The Cat and the Canary (full film - silent)
The Phantom of the Opera (full film)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (full film)
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (full film)
Contemporary films like these also pay homage to the style: Careful by Guy Maddin (1992)
and The Call of Cthulhu (2006), The Artist (2011)
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