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Director Brian De Palma gives you an esoteric tribute to "Battleship Potemkin" -- a Russian film of the 1920s -- as well as a dip into the pulp-lore of the old Warner Brothers gangster flicks.
And the only moment where he does—the notorious (and supposedly improvised on set) Battleship Potemkin homage—is rendered utterly facile and irrelevant as a result.
De Palma directs with effortless panache, most memorably in a pistol-packing homage to the Odessa Steps sequence from " Battleship Potemkin " on the staircase of Chicago's Grand Station.
Some scenes, like the baby carriage scene (famously lifted from Battleship Potemkin) and Connery's taking-charge scenes, come alive, but the film mostly revels in nostalgia and feels numb.
The most memorable and controversial sequence is easily the climactic shootout in Chicago�s Union Station, partially because it features De Palma�s trademark extended slow-motion in an incredibly complex choreography of gun fighting and nervous tension, but mostly because it has the audacity to evoke Sergei Eisenstein�s classic Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin.
Borrowing from the famous Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, De Palma crafts one of the most riveting 10-minute set pieces in modern cinema, elevating the tension by stages until it is nearly unbearable.
One recalls the famous Battle on the Ice of Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" as the knights -- plus Guinevere, a gifted archer -- face a mass of Teutons charging across a frozen river.
The first big fracas attempts to duplicate the "Battle on the Ice" from Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky something Ken Russell played with back in the late '60s in the third Harry Palmer spy film, Billion Dollar Brain.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Directed by Peter Jackson
influenced by Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Visuals
The ultimate grudge match between Azog and Thorin is like Eisenstein’s ice battle from Alexander Nevsky done in miniature, with a spooky lyricism all its own.
Friedkin finds these themes amid radical set pieces; a 10-minute struggle to get a truck over a bridge during an intense thunderstorm constitutes some of the finest sound mixing in Hollywood, perhaps cinematic history, rivaling the battle on the ice in Alexander Nevsky .
Martin Scorsese might be right when he says Marvel movies are “theme parks”, but Michael Bay’s films make Avengers: Endgame look like Battleship Potemkin .
In a scene where the Hun troops sweep down the side of a snowy mountain, I was reminded of the great battle sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky.''
At moments like this, the blood, movement, and sheer vastness of Braveheart evoke the violent excitement you remember from movies like Alexander Nevsky and The Seven Samurai.
And then there's a brief tour of the Mediterranean (Palestine, Naples, Greece, Barcelona) told using images from other films, – including The Beaches of Agnès, Cheyenne Autumn, Battleship Potemkin – and quotes from writers (Derrida, Pirandello, Malraux, Conrad).
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Directed by Peter Jackson
influenced by Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Visuals
Rather than concentrate on the mayhem of individual combat (which surely would have earned the film a dreaded R rating), Jackson has learned a lesson from Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky," emphasizing the movement of masses, the rush of columns of soldiers, the advances of machines of war.
No mere coincidence, the visual image connects Baby Driver to its cool-crime-movie lineage (film scholars can trace it back further to Sergei Eisenstein’s eyeglasses montage in Battleship Potemkin).
Cinema has been stretching time since at least Battleship Potemkin but it is unusual to find elongation and compression used simultaneously.
Seen today, Metropolis is a clearly hysterical, cautionary reaction to Eisenstein’s incendiary Battleship Potemkin–incited by a lascivious robot, the proles stupidly flood their home in their mindless revolt.
College students will be introduced to montage using this film instead of Battleship Potemkin in the future it’s that impressive.
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
influenced by Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Themes Visuals
When he and his friends first saw Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary Soviet film "Battleship Potemkin," he claimed, they left the theater and immediately began tearing up the street stones to build barricades.
Potemkin inspired not only the surrealist shocks of Un Chien Andalou but the ballet mécanique of Metropolis .
Buñuel's fascination with Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (in which a woman's eye is savaged by a sabre) would explain Un Chien Andalou's razor-to-the-eye sequence.