Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
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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 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 .
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.''
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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.
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.