Soviet Montage: Crash Course Film History #8
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- Russia went and had a revolution in 1917 and cinema was a big part of its aftermath. Even though film stock was hard to come by, we saw the first film school started, and the study of film became hugely important. Russian filmmakers started trying to understand the power of the cut itself, thus developing a theory of filmmaking based solely around the juxtaposition of images: Soviet Montage. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, Craig talks us through some of the filmic things going on in post-revolution era Russia.
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Movies Discussed in this episode:
Battleship Potempkin: 1925 - Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Man with a Movie Camera: 1929 - Dir. Dziga Vertov
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 2009 - Dir. David Yates
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Psycho: 1960 - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Property of Paramount Pictures
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 1966 - Dir. Sergio Leone
Property of 20th Century FOX
Youth of Maxim: 1935 - Dir. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
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The montage at the end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has to be my favorite montage of all time. With the length of that film, the tension and relief built up in that scene feel like such a satisfying conclusion.
There's so many reasons that film is great!
- Nick J.
[Russian accent]
In Soviet Russia you rob bank
In Capitalist America bank robs you
you rob a bank and find out it is broke*
then you are beaten in the woods by police and your kids cant study further then elementary school, then you are shot when you are trying to escape country*
@@janvalis4954 *than
@@kafkafication3449 eeeeh...... no?
@@kafkafication3449 Oh I did not see this one between all those "thens". You are right, sorry :-)
@@janvalis4954 ehh, I was kinda being a smartass anyway.
"The Man With The Movie Camera" is a documentary about it's own creation so it's a sort of Film-ception.
I love how I come to get schooled about the history of film and always walk away with a broader general point of view.
Also to mention two great Soviet artists like Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko.
Pudovkin, like Eisenstein believed that montage is what makes movie unique, but he believed montage was rather a method of construction than a collision, like Eisenstein believed. Also his editing had both narrative and intellectual power, so he was more popular at that time than Eisenstein (Mother 1926, End of St Petersburg 1927, Storm over Asia 1928..).
On the other hand, Dovzhenko was the most inconvenient and most poetic, with stylistic movies, threaded with impressionistic montage and full of lyrical imagery (Zvenigora 1928, Arsenal 1929, Earth 1930).
Storm Over Asia was one of the first films I had to watch in film school. A real fantastic film. We sort of agonized about where to include Pudovkin and had to cut somewhere. Not particularly happy about it, but I'm still very proud of this episode :)
- Nick J.
Course is amazing! I'm preparing for an entrance exam for a film school so it helps a lot, thank you very much for it :)
I absolutely love the little comic/sarcastic 'breaks' that Craig puts in between the courses, like the one at 6:38 XD Especially the face he makes after.
thank you for being a saint to film students who have an exam tomorrow everywhere
This is my new favorite crash course series. Excellent stuff!
@@fleurettemvangulden7883 No.. You must watch Nicole
All memes are dank, but some memes are more dank than others.
Joseph Stalin Yes
You ruined communism.
Hey Joe
IGameChangerI He did nothing wrong, Khrushchev lied.
the only thing he did wrong was dying too soon 😢
Love how you added "dank memes" to the list at 1:06! 😂
Came here to say this.
you only found the obvious one
Creuilcreuil _ Where are the less obvious
Top kek, non normie
*Seize the Memes of production!*
Dammit!
Dear Crash Course,
Thank you so much for your film history lessons! I'm currently a film student and sad I didn't find you guys sooner! Keep up the good work! :D
A very insightful overview, well done. I'm enjoying this series.
Favorite line of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly":
"If you're gonna shoot, shoot! Don't talk!"
I look forward to these every week! :)
The way y'll cut out all of the breaths provides beautiful pacing for this crash course.
Great vid again! keep em comming!
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend; Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." -Clint Eastwood
The Wise Guy Had to research the ending scene when he mentioned it. So good
this series just fills me with so much joy
This is awesome. I need more episodes.
Favorite episode so far.
3:35 the fact that you added nardole makes me so happy
the scene on the stairs in battleship Potemkin is Very powerful, especially the cuts between the horror of the people and kossack boots on the ground.
Хорошее видео, товарищ.
I've been meaning to say since the first ep: this series has the best iteration of the crash course theme yet imo! :)
I'm a simple man, I read soviet, I press like
Please do a series on Music History!
Also this series rocks too!!
I really like this series as it shows the influences people draw from each other. The baby rolling down the steps was used in the movie the untouchables as well but with inverted protaganists and antagonists. (the state and the scrappy rebels/mafia)
learnt more from this video than an entire semester
Digg'n the Rey and Kylo battle set in the background. Good job set makers. :)
this was very helpful, thank you. do you have other examples of modern scenes that use montage technique?
I lov learning about movies
The remixes are great.
The intro for this series is so badass
Love this series
Just realized that Takeshi Kitano's films (that he acts in) are nearly 100% him being blank faced and taking advantage of the Kuleshov effect to great success, what great films.
I came when I saw the TARDIS.
Natalie Ely me too
I was just wondering what the TARDIS and Doctor had to do with Soviets and film history; I'm not even all that interested in film history.
I am so nerd that I enjoyed more the episodes about technical stuff of movies and film workings
Ok, but Man With the Movie Camera is one of the best films I have ever seen.
Love the show...but what has the eagle ever done to you to garner such wrath at the beginning of every episode...btw I love the running gag!
Thank you
That title is a hell of a way to pull me in
Will this series include animated films?
Unexpected Dumbledore's death scene got me right in the feels...
Dumbledore's death gets me everytime
also first time I noticed wand sound effects
I'm so glad that it's episode 8 and we still aren't even to The Jazz Singer. Quality series
Educational!
I'm glad you mentioned absolute kino.
Potempkin! I remember watching that.
1:51 that reminds me I need to buy some catnip
Hey we watched The Man With The Movie Camera in my film class! Cool :)
Dang, I must need to adjust my CZcams settings, I haven't seen Craig in a long time.
I'm not watching this yet it's 2:45am I need to sleep but why is Doctor Who in this?? Seriously love this channel.
Although every future episode of this series might already be planned out and written, I feel like there would a lot of information to give if you did episodes specifically on a director's works. For example, maybe Kubrick and Lynch?
Matteo Pagano that would be such a cool episode
missed an opportunity to link in the great war channel there
Nice...
Chyna cameo!
SOMEBODY NOTICED :D :D :D
- Nick J.
CrashCourse A+ desirable woman selection, CC and Craig
I just started watching wheezy's blog and had no idea what chyna looked like before. Now that I'm rewatching this, it makes me so happy to see her cameo in this. Lol
AYYY MY HOMIE THE DOCTOR
wasn't expecting to see him in this series but it's a pleasant surprise
The other big innovation with the Odessa staircase scene was the artificial lengthening of time. A scene that should have taken a few brief minutes is drawn out much longer with all those cuts back and forth between the rifleman and the peasants.
FYI, the woman on the couch is Craig's wife, Chyna
One question remains: is the film Youth of Maksim an adaptation of Maksim Gorky's autobiography?
I came when I heard Soviet
Stalin will rise again
Yes
Silvicat Green as did I, fellow comrade.
i jizzed when i saw lenin
I really hope you guys are trolls...
I'm sorry but what revolution wasn't violent?
the Velvet Revolution.
The sexual revolution. Unless you're kinky.
Zarif Hasan
Tunisia
Egypt
Bahrain
Belarus
Georgia
Moldova
There's quite a few that happened in history and I couldn't name all of them.
But back to the main point - fuck communism.
The velvet revolution
Ankyri
"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, КПСС, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza), abbreviated in English as CPSU,[a] was the founding and ruling political party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union). The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990" - Wikipedia. It's literally in the name. Hell, they practically weren't hiding it.
It goes either way.
If you want to get more into it with film analysis, I have to recommend Folding Ideas, excellent youtube channel who does lots of film stuff.
I saw the TARDIS and got very excited
Don't ask an italian what Battleship Potemkin is
Mikno21 Why not?
So Craig mentions the iconic Eisensteinian "baby pram racing downstairs" that spawned a trope, but said nothing about (in spite of dedicating screenshots to her) the fembot in Metrópolis, who inspired C-3PO, in last week's UFA episode?
1:07 Seize the memes of production
I get Lenin and the peasants... but what the TARDIS is doing there intrigues me seriously!!
RIGHT, when we got to Kuleshov we figured out what the TARDIS has to do with Soviet filmmaking!!
He said that the film trick used to make the tardis appear so large on the inside comes from Russian cinematography :)
That's what I meant!
Any fellow Whovians who watched this episode?
Sure. What do you think of Bill in last episodes?
3:30 season 10, yay!
I watch few of these Crash Courses and I've seen that eagle take so many hits already that I keep expecting Phil Plait to haul off and whack the Enterprise over on his Astronomy course at some point.
So once we move to film production there will definitely be an entire episode about film score right? RiGHT?
Last episode's UFA Kirby scene was a lovely metaphor, right? Now we get Narkompros, a red Kirby in a shapka!!
seize the means of production
Hey Craig and CC Crew, I'm really digging this series and I had a question. You mentioned that, despite recording "real footage" and claiming to show real life, the Soviet documentaries are still an illusion. I was wondering how this related to the modern day vlogger- is their stuff also an illusion?
In so far as the images you are seeing are not reality, yes. It's light and sound being digitally captured from a CHOSEN perspective, then compressed, decompressed, edited, and viewed on a device that reinterprets it. I like to think of it as a "Perspective On Reality." That reality can be constructed to varying degrees. What you choose to show, choose to not show, and how you purposefully affect the images captured alter the reality of it.
- Nick J.
Thank you for the response Nick!
I come for the learning, I stay for the wheezy, I make excited noise at my work desk for the TARDIS
I came for the Doctor. I stayed for Craig.
I'm a simple man, I see the TARDIS, I press like.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat I see Soviet, I click like.
You again...
GuyWithAnAmazingHat nice hat
I love how they put the current team.
Oi mate, I came here with the promise of Soviets and montages, so where is the glorious soviet anthem?
Michael Voss at that time soviet anthems was The Internationale
I understand not having a main charcter when you're trying to illustrate the chaos but it's really hard to get a relatable narrative out of it
Love this series. But no 'Eagle Punch!'?
I waa looking through old clothes, looking for an old, fashionable summer jacket. I found a few, nice and hipster. But I also found a U.S.S.R Soviet (sports) jacket. Guess what jacket I ultimately went with?
you cant just spring dumbledores death on me like that out of nowhere
Cutting to images of Chyna also makes me feel desire.
Bra I'm looking at films in a different way now! 😂💯
thought bubble trying to sneak dank memes in xD
we watched battleship potemkin in school. At least parts of it
AHHH!!!! CHYNA BENZINE AT 2:56!!!!
Okay im a little mad that spoiler came too fast! I havent gotten to that part yet!!!!!
It would be nice if Doctor Who did an episode about this.
"Owa oowa ooooo..
WA WA WA"
-Craig 2017
In Soviet Russia you dont watch the movies. The movies watch you !
go away
João Pedro Nasser normie trash
João Pedro Nasser desciclopedia vive
Happy little accidents
In Soviet Russia they have original jokes.
Wow, you have the out of time license tag that I have...
Woah! 2:58 Chyna!!
im sorry i got to ask .....whats up with the eagle punching?
Thanks for video, but it is supposed to be with a lot of Soviet movie examples, isn't it?
For more on this, check out the "Folding Ideas" channel's video The Kuleshov Effect
Absolutely WONDERFUL channel. I learn a lot from all of his videos. Even when he's covering things I already know, I get a new perspective on it. His breakdown of the editing problems in Suicide Squad was extremely good.
- Nick J.
"Juxtapose two images in real time to create a new and sometimes unrelated meaning"
What about a photography diptych?
What was that trailer from
Channing Tatum at 8:06