merlin:

Odessa Steps Scene (Battleship Potemkin; Sergei Eisenstein; 1925)

Reserve reading watching for the long-suffering readers of my dumbass toots. (Start around 5:36.1)

Especially prepared for the fortunate residents of the center-to-right four-fifths of the social curve—comprised of persons who chose to spend the weekends of their early teen years “having dates” and “going to parties,” and “couple-skating to ‘Open Arms.’”

Rather than—say, just hypothetically—“chugging 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew and watching reruns of Masters of the Silent Screen before caving in to 35 frenzied seconds of masturbating to the girdle section of a decade-old Penneys catalog, and eventually falling asleep to the late night album-sides on 98 Rock.”

Yep. Film scholarship is complicated.

  1. My Christ, eighty-five years later, this is still a jaw-dropping piece of filmmaking. ↩

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