Montage Movie Analysis

Montage is deemed to be a French transliteration of montage. It was originated from a French architectural term, and after being borrowed to apply on the clips and combination of films. In brief, montage is according to the content of the film wants to convey, and the audience 's psychological order, shoot a film respectively to be many clips, and then combine the clips in accordance with the original conception.

The rise of the Soviet montage originated in 1924. In the Soviet Union in the 20th century, Lenin once said that in all the art films are part of the most important to us.”As Lenin regarded films as a powerful tool for education, therefore, films were promoted by the Soviet government. First of all, film documentaries, news show,

The close-up was cut into three clips which were hooked up respectively in front of a bowl of soup, a child who was playing games and a corpse of an elderly woman. The outcome of the experiment was that the audience seems to recognise the emotional changes of Ivan Mozhukhin, which was starvation, joyfulness and sadness respectively. Therefore, Kuleshov saw the possibility, rationalisation, and psychological basis of montage. He came up with a conclusion that it was not a single lens but the paralleling of couple lens that caused emotional response when watching movies; a single lens is simply source material, only the creation of montage can be considered to be film art. He put forward a theory of the creation of montage that the basic structure of the film was not from authentic source material, but of spatial structure and montage. He especially put emphasis on the creation of montage, and he proceeded to a series of experiments to reveal and prove his theory. In 1924, Kuleshov directed a film called The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, which had proven to be a tentative beginning of Soviet montage school. He applied many of his own theories in this film as

It can be found that there are various clips using the principle of the vaudeville montage in designing the scenes in this film. At the very beginning of the montage clip in the film, it is declared to the audiences that a unique and artistic film masterpiece was born: Spinning machines, the flying gear, and the steam whistle. All of them display a large number of machine tools with following shot and other smooth and dizzy motion lens. At the end of the film, the screen alternates the lens of the factory owner and police to workers and the lens of cattle slaughtered in