Psychologists Use Of Montages In Eisenstein's Film
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There are various ways to edit montages; some notable works come from Segei
Eisenstein who uses this technique in many of his films. Eisenstein used montages which are
based on psychology of perception. The connection of the montages is that there are collisions
between two shots that are independent of each other but when brought together, the sum of
those two individual shots produces a greater meaning then what it might have stood for on its
To Eisenstein, elements of different shots are viewed on top of each other instead of
next to each other which is why different cuts are put next to each other in order to manipulate
emotions from the viewer. In the movie Strike, workers of a factory are being suppressed and
strike back.…show more content… The two images don’t work on their own but
together it acts as a metaphor to the humans being treated like animals.
He also created different types of montages; one example is of a tonal montage in
Battleship Potemkin. Through montage editing, Eisenstein was able to play with the viewers’
perception emotionally when the baby carriage starts rolling down the steps. As we see the
facial expression of onlookers we think that the baby might not be saved.
One of his most famous montages is his ideology of intellectual montage. This was
shown in Battleship Potemkin, as the baby carriage was rolling down the steps and what seems
like a guy who is about to hit the baby cuts to statues of a statue of an angel who is turned with
a fist and a lion roaring. Eisenstein used his theory of collision/contrast and juxtaposition of the
different shots to send the message that this violence is wrong and the people need to do
something about it.
Eisenstein explored montage and believed montage was connected by a
collision/contrast approach where he took two shots that individually mean different things