Battleship Potemkin

This movie i found to be very propagandic toward the soviets for many reasons the first one that i came across was how they portrayed the officers on the battleship. They were dressed in these dark black uniforms and played this haunting evil music anytime they showed up in the movie at the beginning. It also appeared to make the sailors living conditions terribly bad from how they had to sleep in those little hammocks to eating the meat with all of those disgusting maggots in it. I love how the portrayed the little man with the glasses who inspects the meat and tells the sailors that the meat is fine and they could just wash them off. After that i knew that some bad things were going to happen to that little guy. Another symbol was after the sailors take over the ship they hoist a big red flag at the top to symbolize the Soviets. The fact that it was the only color used in the film besides black and white shows how important it was to send this message out to the viewers. Another thing i found interesting is after the death of Vakulinchuk the sailors put him in a little tent and the people all came and said their prayers to him. This looked strikingly similar to what the Soviets did with Lenin's body. The last thing i would like to talk about was the staircase scene, this must have been a groundbreaking scene in film history the way it was shot with the camera following the people down the stairs I'm sure that the people had never seen anything like that before. The part with the baby carriage looked very similar to the famous scene in the movie The Untouchables.