[Fwd: Re: PESO - Stairway to the Stars]

[Mark Roberts]

Doug Franklin wrote:
> David Savage wrote:
> 
>> If they had had that setup on the stairs at the train station in the
>> "Untouchables" there is no way that they would have been able to save
>> the kid.
> 
> I guess I'll have to see the movie so I know what you're talking about.

Check out the *original*: Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". The scene 
from "The Untouchables" that Dave refers to is based on the "Odessa 
Steps" sequence from this 1925 masterpiece. This film was hugely 
influential, the Odessa Steps sequence in particular (Terry Gilliam did 
a brilliant and funny tribute to it in his film "Brazil").

Sergei Esienstein is responsible for one of my favorite filmmaking 
quotations: "A smooth transition is an opportunity lost."