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Few directors have had to face the obstacles that confronted Russia's cinematic
pioneer, Sergei
Eisenstein. He had to contend with Communist politics of the 1920s and
'30s while creating a new style of filmmaking, the montage. With this technique,
the director, who was influenced by the editing of D.W. Griffith, intercut
different scenes to condense time and emphasize symbolism. A film theorist
as much as filmmaker, Eisenstein's
work is appreciated more today than in his own time; frequently referring
to as "too formalistic," critics dismissed his work as being overly
intellectual for the typical audience. Yet his impact on filmmakers has
been profound, and his Odessa step scene from Battleship Potemkin is often
pointed to as one of the most powerful (and consciously emulated) scenes
in cinema.
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