> > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/03/25 Tue PM 10:44:04 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > 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."
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