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This 5 page report discusses the 1925 classic movie “Battleship Potemkin” and the fact that it is actually portraying events taking place at the time the movie was made rather than the historical incident of 1905 that it supposedly presents. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the Battleship Potemkin in the Czarist Russia of 1905. The crew finally protests against the unbearable conditions on the ship when they are expected to eat rotten meat for a
meal. That incident served as the proverbial "straw that broke the back" of the crew. They protest by refusing to eat the meat and buy their relatively meager provisions at
the canteen which those in command see as an act of insubordination bordering on treason. Despite the fact that the movie portrays an actual event that has been somewhat fictionalized,
the action depicted in the movie is actually more closely related to events that took place in 1921 when sailors at the Kronstadt naval base, located outside Leningrad, revolted as
part of protest against the brutality of the conditions to which they were subjected. Sergei Eisenstein Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneer in virtually every aspect of
movie-making. His vision of film serving as more as simple entertainment allowed for him to act as a leader in the revolution (pun intended) in early movies through which a
statement could be made. Richardson (1998) explains that Eisenstein, born to a Jewish family in Riga, Latvia in 1898, was educated as a civil engineer. He was extremely interested in
anything to do with "the arts" and theater. His background, including his experiences with what he called, according to Richardson, an "almost hysterical" religious upbringing. Richardson explains: "This combined in
him at once very destructive urges against authority and remarkably creative urges in the arts, to ultimately be played out in film, which he would call the synthesis of all
the arts" (pp. 38). In 1918, Eisenstein joined the Red Army and while in the army, according to Richardson, he continued to study the arts with a special focus on
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