Question
This film’s final scene of men waving and throwing their hats is freeze-framed in a 2022 Radu Jude film that explores what happened in Romania after this film’s conclusion. A classic scene from this film is parodied in a sequence involving a vacuum cleaner in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. A still of a weeping nurse from this film inspired a Francis Bacon painting. This film was commissioned on the success of the director’s earlier film, (*) Strike. A man without legs flees during an iconic “intellectual montage” in Act IV of this film, a scene that also shows a baby carriage tottering down the Odessa Steps. For 10 points, name this classic film of Soviet cinema directed by Sergei Eisenstein that dramatizes a mutiny on the title vessel. ■END■
ANSWER: Battleship Potemkin [or Battleship Potyomkin] (Jude’s film is titled The Potemkinists.)
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Film> ~25057~ <Editor: Young Lee>
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Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Charles Young | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 65 | 20 |