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

[mike wilson]

> 
> From: Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu>
> Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 10:44:04 GMT
> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: PESO - Stairway to the Stars]
> 
> 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."

Little did he know that he woud be solely responsible for the modern trend of nausea-inducing pop videos.


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