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From: citrin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BRAZIL
Message-ID: <12311@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 18:55:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 18:55:59 1986
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In article <1526@gitpyr.UUCP> wutka@gitpyr.UUCP (Mark Wutka) writes:
>I did notice one short scene that
>reminded me of the early Russian film "Battleship Potamkin." The scene
>with the troops marching down the steps with their machine guns looks exactly
>like the scene in "Potamkin" where the Czarist troops are marching down the
>stairs firing at the revolting crowd...any ideas ?

It's a closer parody than that.  The shots of the cleaning woman with the
bullet through her glasses and eye, and the vacuum cleaner rolling down
the stairs, parallels a very similar scene in "Potemkin" involving a
baby carriage.

Wayne Citrin
(ucbvax!citrin)