{"id":6465,"date":"2011-08-14T14:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:26:06","slug":"october-1927-sergei-eisenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6465","title":{"rendered":"October (1927, Sergei Eisenstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often I just don&#8217;t know what is happening.  A title card says &#8220;the commisars&#8221;, now people are marching with guns, groups are handing scraps of paper to a man who&#8217;s collecting them on his bayonet, then a title says &#8220;To the telephone office!&#8221;  What did all those things mean?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/october1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It was all very important at the time, a film portrayal of recent political upset and revolution, but with my lack of background in Russian history, most of the movie seems a blur of dates and places and crowds, the significance of most scenes lost, and very few of the alarmingly great compositions of other Eisenstein films.  There&#8217;s some of the dramatic editing of course &#8211; when the crowd is fired upon it seems like single-frame edits, unreal.  I don&#8217;t think Trotsky comes off well in the end.  At least I managed to get used to the unnecessary sound effects all over the DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/october2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often I just don&#8217;t know what is happening. A title card says &#8220;the commisars&#8221;, now people are marching with guns, groups are handing scraps of paper to a man who&#8217;s collecting them on his bayonet, then a title says &#8220;To the telephone office!&#8221; What did all those things mean? It was all very important at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,306,45,752,64],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-revolution","tag-russia","tag-sergei-eisenstein","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}