The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
Sergei EisensteinRead
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Interpretation
What this quote means
Eisenstein suggests that cinema should innovate beyond traditional arts like theater and painting, using language's ability to create new ideas from combining different concepts.
In this quote, Sergei Eisenstein advocates for cinema to develop its unique methodology distinct from that of theater and painting, emphasizing the potential of film to innovate by employing language's capacity to generate novel ideas through the juxtaposition of different objects or concepts. He believes that cinema, as a medium, should harness this linguistic approach to convey complex narratives and express innovative ideas, rather than relying solely on established artistic forms.
Themes
CinemaLanguageArtTheaterInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a film studies class to illustrate the relationship between different art forms.
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