The Odessa Steps

List creator: Cinenaut Created on: February 3, 2004 - 9:48 AM PST Description: Almost every film student has seen Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin and many directors have paid homage to the magnificent Odessa steps sequence.

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	Battleship Potemkin (1925)			Not Rated
The famous Odessa steps sequence is an archetypical filmic vision of military oppression.
	The Untouchables (1987)
A baby carriage on steps.
	Schindler's List (1993)
In Eisenstein's film, he hand-colored a red flag. Spielberg used red to emphasize a little girl.
	Brazil (Criterion Collection) (1985)
This time, it's a floor polisher going down the steps, not a baby carriage.
	Bananas (1971)
Woody Allen pays homage to Potemkin twice. Bananas has a baby carriage going down steps.
	Love and Death (1975)
Broken spectacles on a bloody face and stone lions. Since Love and Death is a parody of all things Russian, it had to have some Eisenstein.
	Films & Videos by Zbig Rybczynski II: Steps (2003)			Not Rated
Zbig Rybcynski introduces actors into the Odessa Steps in a short film called Steps.
	Doctor Zhivago (1965)
	Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
	The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
The Naked Gun crew parodied the Untouchable's homage.
	The Simpsons: Season 3 (Disc 1 of 4) (1989)
I know The Simpsons has parodied Potemkin, but I can't figure out which episode(s). Drop me a line if you know.
	Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola paid homage to a different Eisenstein film (Strike) by intercutting the climatic confrontation with scenes of a bull being killed.