Soviet Montage and German Expressionism

Soviet Montage

Soviet Montage is the principle contribution of Soviet film theorists to global cinema was Montage theory, which brought formalism to bear on filmmaking. Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding & creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing, Montage is French for assembly or editing Sergei Einstein cannot be excluded when it comes to montage. he was the one who started to compare and contrast images, putting them together and conveying the message to the audience and also included music and pacing the images to the music to show and create intense emotions ore emotions in general. I feel that montage editing is very important in almost any film. how footages are placed and music accompanying the footage can change the whole story. a good editor can magically make screwed up footages into something beautiful. a wedding video can be edited into a horror film and a scientific action movie can turn into a romantic comedy? the different ways and methods of editing also makes a very big different

German Expressionism

German expressionism was briefly touched on and the only think i remember was that it is dark, scary and a lot of shadows were involved. but after taking deeper more precise look into it, the artsy fantasy looking images have a much more impressive history and influence then i thought. German expressionism influenced on of the genres that people watch a lot today horror, I do not like horror one bit. Mainly because i cant go to sleep at night after watching it. but still, I have to agree that german expressionism's influences can be seen very easily even in older movies like Dracula which then set a universal setting and mood for horror and monster themed movies. in the 1940s, expressionist style of film making also influenced crime dramas which set a bigger ripple effect to modern cinema. I am not a fan of darker movies i mean harry potter and the chamber of secrets got me crying when i was a kid. it was interesting to see how something that was created in early 1900s has become a "template" to modern horror films with highly dramatised and exaggerated sets acting. Lastly, I think both countries movies are different in many way such as cultural, clothing and how a movie is made based on their country history. But they both share one common thing in their movie which is to give a good and everlasting remembrance of their movie.