... sequence in "Potemkin- is one of the most famous examples of his celebrated montage technique, building both drama and significance purely through juxtaposition of shots. Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional actors, but used amateurs who were asked to draw on the experience of their own lives) rather than fully developed characters, he created a forceful, incessant logic ... for this story of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of Battleship Potemkin. Eisenstein was building on theories of film making developed by Lev Kuleshov and Dziga Vertov. These pioneers of So...

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... will be told via cut-aways while also setting up the later points in the film for aggressive lighting, colors, and acting. After having the most interesting boredom for the first three minutes of the film, the audience then experiences a sort of awakening when Wes Anderson displays the hotel in its state in 1968 as The Author (Jude Law) changes age and demeanor to his younger more stylized self as well ... as the lighting and colors are beginning to vary a little more in brightness than they did ... is not so lucky on another occasion with ZZ soldiers. In one of the few black and white...

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