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From: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: BRAZIL (and while we're on "Potemkin" quotes....)
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 10:51:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 10:51:15 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 "Potemkin" where the Czarist troops are marching down the
>stairs firing at the revolting crowd...

The bit with the vacuum cleaner bumping down the stairs unattended
(cf the baby carriage shot from Eisenstein) was so blatant a quote
that even the preppie gropefest in the seats in front of us untangled
long enough to remark (in not so dulcet a tone) on it. Of course, 
they called him "sergie einstein".....