The factory is shown vacant and still with birds moving in. A child then wakes his father for work ironically with no work to do, they laugh and frolic. The chapter begins with footage of ducklings, kittens, piglets, and geese. They force open the gates and seize a manager carting him off in a wheel barrow dumping them down a hill into the water. Then locked within the gates of the complex, the crowd confronts the office. The strikers throw rocks and loose metal through the foundry windows. The workers leave the milling room running and resistance is met at the foundry. A worker, Yakov, is accused of the theft and subsequently hangs himself. Reason to strike A micrometer is stolen, with a value of 25 rubles or 3 weeks pay. Conditions are tense with agitators and bolsheviks planning a strike prior to the catalytic event. Vignettes are shown of each of them as the shot of each spy is juxtaposed with an image of their description. The administration is spying on the workers, reviewing a list of agents with vivid code names which all resemble animal names: The Monkey, The Bulldog, The Fox, The Shepherd, The Owl, ect. At the factory all is quiet Using typography, the word "HO" (but) is added to the title of the chapter which then animates and dissolves into an image of machinery in motion. Being organized means unity of action, unity of practical activity." I. Without organization of the masses, the proletarian is nothing. "The strength of the working class is organization. The film opens with a quote from Vladimir Lenin: Eisenstein’s theory of Intellectual Montage has the viewer make a connection between the murder of the civilians and the cow, which creates a third meaning for the viewer suggesting that the massacre of the civilians was more like a helpless slaughter. These violent and intense juxtaposed montage sequences can be looked at as the aesthetic starting point which inevitably led to other thrilling sequences, most famously with villagers ceremonially slaughtering a water buffalo in Frances Ford Coppola's war epic Apocalypse Now. Those two images juxtapose to form a third meaning between the cow and the civilians as the series of shots of the deceased and murdered civilians sprawled on the ground runs parallel to the cow's throat being brutally slashed open with a knife, as the cow slowly bleeds to death. The film is most famous for a legendary sequence near the end of the film which cross-cuts with footage of the Soviet police shooting and killing civilians that are trying to retreat from them off-screen, while the scene cuts back and forth to a slaughterhouse where a butcher is holding a knife to a cow’s throat right before slaughtering it. These theories were greatly used in Strike, as Eisenstein cuts between the poor and determined faces of the citizens getting raided by police officers, to the meetings of the greedy fat corporate shareholders drinking wine, laughing and clenching their cigars with their fat fingers, creating an contrasting argument for the injustice that the workers are receiving by the greedy higher class. Eisenstein also experimented with a theory called Intellectual Montage which was considered a style of editing that could form a relation or meaning between two separate images created from juxtaposition, and have them form new ideas, metaphors or symbols to the shots. Doing this Eisenstein would manipulate the viewer in feeling sympathy for the courageous workers and hatred for the corporate greedy business men. Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein was a student of the Kuleshov school of film-making and advocate of the theories of Soviet montage, which were a series of shots that formed conflict, collision and shock, which he believed was much more effective in emotionally affecting the viewer. The film depicts a strike in the year 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and explores the labourers tension, hardship and subsequent suppression which was endured by the controlling class. Strike was one of the first major films of the Soviet Montage movement and it is a highly political propaganda film with strong statements about collectivism. Strike was acted by the Proletcult Theatre, and composed of six different parts, as it originally was intended to be one part of a seven-part series, entitled Towards Dictatorship (of the proletariat), that was left unfinished. Being organized means unity of action, unity of practical activity."ġ925's Strike was legendary director Sergei Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make his masterpiece The Battleship Potemkin later that year.
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