Blog Task 5 – Influence on Contemporary Cinema

Identify at least one or more films which appear to have been influenced by the visual style of classic Soviet Constructivist Cinema.

              The Breakfast Club:

Soviet Constructivism Cinema used a lot of montages. In ‘The Breakfast Club’ montages are constantly used to show the passage of time of the students in detention.

Battleship Potemkin:

 The dominance of red and black was used in many Soviet films. In ‘Battleship Potemkin’ the whole film is in black but there are clear thing such as a red flag and blood which represent the alertness of the colour red.

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