Chapaev

From what i noticed about this film was that it foucsed entirely on the legendary commander. The reason he succeeded with the Russian public was becasue he was just an ordinary man who become this great leader once the war broke out. The movie makes him very loud and boistrous and at times very comedic and this is what made the people fall in love with him because he was an actual character not just someone who walked around on a screen with saying any words. Words definately play a big role in the success of this movie without them the audience would have lost all of the emotion that he put on the screen through his mouth and that is why Battleship Potemkin didn't have a big success with the people because the audience doesn't really get to know any of the characters in that film. I think that the combination of Chapaev and Furmanov was huge for the movie and for the Red army. While Chapaev was a great leader, Furmanov gave his intellectual side to help guide Chapaev and to make sure he did what the Red army wanted because Chapaev wasn't the smartest guy in fact he said he had only learned to read during the revolution. One symbol that i noticed from the movie was that the White general im not sure of his name but he was seen several times in the film wearing glasses and glasses were a major sign of the Old regime and everything that The Soviets hated about the czarist people. Another symbol was when they were about to fight the Whites marched up in unison together with blank expressions on their faces as if they didn't even care. They were also all dressed in sharp black outfits that made them just look like the bad guys. All together i can see why this was a great propaganda for Russia at the time.