Strike / Stachka - Sergei Eisenstein - 1925 (slaughter scene)

[@UItraVioIet]

Saw this in my editing class with no sound as it was originally a silent movie, and I have to say, that I personally, think the added track enhances the film and really shows the tension and terror of all the civilians.

[@LuciaFaler]

Splendid!! Eisenstein is a master in the art of montage

[@TuxedoCatCartoons]

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will always be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy

[@scarygary-qq1pj]

"I gotta pinch a loaf." ~ Tommy Chong. Just as meaningless in reference to the scene.

[@TuxedoCatCartoons]

​@@scarygary-qq1pj​ It couldn't be a more appropriate quote. Basically, what Leo Tolstoy was saying was that if we can turn a blind eye to the needless murder of animals, as animals ourselves, we become more desensitized to violence in general. As long as we rationalize away needless death we will continue a cycle of needless violence. If we can subsist on food not requiring animal suffering, if we ever have the option to minimize suffering, of course that should be our priority. Why shouldn't it be?

[@TRINZINI]

An obvious influence on Coppola for the end scene of APOCALYPSE NOW when Willard kills Kurtz (intercut with shot of an ox being slaughtered).

[@this_mfr]

The desensitization we have incurred from modern films is shown so clearly by watching this video. We all cringe and nearly puke at the sight of a cow bleeding out. Yet, we can watch Saving Private Ryan, or any other gore filled modern film, and have no squeams or issues whatsoever.

[@Ruinedulac]

Chris Snyder Visually yes maybe, but lets bleed out a real human in front of them see how they react. In person it is not the same as on screen.

[@this_mfr]

Ben Beaupré I'll give you that, the real thing is much different. But check out the psychological studies done on children who were raised in societies without TV and shown war movies for the first time. They ran out of the room screaming and puking. There is something to say about desensitization from violence in the media. It shifts everyone over on the scale. For most of us, the effect is negligible because we are still square in the middle scale. But for those on the fringes of the scale, they are pushed over into violence in reality.

[@Ruinedulac]

Chris Snyder i would have tought society raised without TV would have already seen slaughter of animal many time. Human is an animal, how different from a bull are we, we have blood and meat and fat, just as them. So slaughter of bull and human are essentialy the same, except for the perception we give it.

[@DeathGrunt666]

Real footage of human death will make most people including me very uneasy. But this is real footage of a cow. In this, they are intending to spark rage, in how the working population are treated silenced and executed like cattle.

[@d.a.w.g.s1627]

Powerful... But is that the real music or was that some kid playing a 8bit mega man game in the back?

[@hercrespo]

It's the soundtrack made by the Alloy Orchestra, added much later to Strike which was originally silent.

[@BarbasCalifa]

Haha! My first thoughts exactly!!!

[@The.Vic-Man]

It sounds more like the Solid state scouter theme from Dragon ball Z

[@jonathanmoline4389]

Intellectual Montage

[@ECG3485]

Eisenstein is still one of the all-time great film masters, without question ;) and yes, that cow being slaughtered also made me sick when I first watched this movie like 2 or 3 years ago :(

[@Mateo009-b6f]

Anyone here because of the dumb film class ? Anyone ? 😩📺🎥

[@alexvalin9085]

lol yep, studying for finals. heh.

[@vector8310]

Any dumb student here because he feels that learning about film is dumb? Anyone?

[@busi7862]

Yup... editing assignment lol

[@j-rleamen402]

@@thistendstobe Yeah, what a struggle. Being forced to learn about important history within the medium you're studying. What a fucking catastrophe...

[@LasanGirl]

was almost puke when my lecturer showed us this clip.

[@commonkira8000]

anybody know the music name playing in the back?

[@hercrespo]

It's the soundtrack made by the alloy orchestra

[@omegamanGXE]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@Sabbsche]

What are they doing with the cow? lol :O

[@TheDubdubwubwub]

Well that was... new

[@Brandooon95]

Insane

[@xsarahgallagherx]

i cant believe they used a real cow :(

[@BodethIII]

@zigifrojd Ah i see. Pleasant to see intelligent comments on KZbin of all places.

[@Halid_x88]

🎥

[@BodethIII]

And i had to watch this for Film History 202... Why the cow? Symbolism of massacre of the people?

[@DeathGrunt666]

ChronoBodi yes

[@omegamanGXE]

Because you touch yourself at night

[@金あげますお-c6v]

悩み

[@Tiffawesomeness]

I just puked.

[@pierreexantus5925]

This is animal cruelty at its best... Sadly, Im still going to eat meat thou :(

[@bee-nf5bj]

Its probabaly the quickest and least harmful ways to kill cattle available to farmers at the time, so I wouldnt per se its cruelty unless youre against killing animals for food altogether

[@TuxedoCatCartoons]

Bet you won't eat your pets.

[@die1mayer]

@@bee-nf5bj Slaughter by cutting the wind pipe and bleeding the animal to death is called Sheshita and is a religious, jewish practice. The farmer could have also knocked the cow unconscious, like it was practice in Europe since the Middle Ages.

[@trisztankerecseny2845]

Nemjo

[@MischiefMaker615]

Wtf