The masses of extras, use of ships and cities and just the way it captures such well organised chaos are all very impressive and would be even done today. ![]() At one or two points the model work was very clearly model work but mostly the film is technically impressive. The feel of the film was a surprise to me because it stood up very well viewed with my modern eyes. The version I saw apparently had the original score (I'm not being snobby modern rescores could be better for all I know) and I felt it worked very well to match and improve the film's mood dramatic, gentle or exciting, it all works very well. The story doesn't have much in the way of characters but it still brings out the brutality and injustice of events and it is in this that it hooked me surprisingly violent (implied more than modern gore) it demonising the actions and shows innocents falling at all sides in key scenes. The story is based on real events and this only serves to make it more interesting but even without this context it is still an engaging story. I had never seen this film before but had seen countless references to it in other films and therefore considering it an important film to at least see once. It is hard to imagine that anybody who has seen quite a few films in the past few decades would be unaware of this film, but it is perhaps understandable that fewer have had the opportunity to actually sit down and watch. When the officers take their revenge and kill Vakulinchuk, all are bonded together in the struggle a bond that reaches to the city of Odessa where the rebellion grows, leading to a bloody and historic series of events. With the marines seconds away from firing the deadly shots, ordinary seaman Grigory Vakulinchuk steps into the breach and intervenes to save the men by appealing to the firing squad to ignore their orders. When they are served rotting, maggot infested meat some of the crew object, only to find themselves singled out and placed in front of a firing squad. ![]() With workers striking in Russia, the crew of the battleship Potemkin feel a certain kinship for the plight of their brothers.
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