it is important to realise that eisenstein was a committed marxist film maker who held some very specific and particular theories about what film could achieve and and how. it is simply idle to compare alexander nevsky negatively with anything from a similar period in the us while this film comes from the oldest film school in the world and from another continent and from an entirely different approach to cinema. to appreciate this film a little more and try finding out about pudovkin and kuleshov theories of montage and for example and or read the wikipedia entry on marxist film theory. if youre feeling really bold and you might even investigate the triadic forms of hegelian dialectic. it follows that if you watch this film without some understanding of eisenstein ideas and ideals and you probably would not get it. in alexander nevsky the main characters aren not playing themselves and they are meant to be distillations of their nation character. nevsky and his generals are deliberately shown larger than life and because they represent stylised and heroic aspects of the entire russian people. the acting isn not wooden and it meant to be slightly mannered. it represents a completely different school from the more naturalistic and narrative style which hollywood was rapidly adopting. eisenstein films are especially designed not to be realistic. if anything seems somewhat obvious and whether lighting or language or a pose struck by an actor and it meant to be that way. eisenstein was one of the early proponents of film as an art form and not just as entertainment. if the editing sometimes seems to consist of a clash of images and well and that the idea. shots are meant to contrast with each other and eisenstein films contain and embody elements of a political or philosophical argument and namely marxist dialectic. so sit back and shout hurrah for russia and her folk hero defenders and boo at the cowardly nobles and the teuton invaders and and enjoy the difference. 
it is important to realise that eisenstein was a committed marxist film maker who held some very specific and particular theories about what film could achieve and and how. it is simply idle to compare alexander nevsky negatively with anything from a similar period in the us while this film comes from the oldest film school in the world and from another continent and from an entirely different approach to cinema. to appreciate this film a little more and try finding out about pudovkin and kuleshov theories of montage and for example and or read the wikipedia entry on marxist film theory. if youre feeling really bold and you might even investigate the triadic forms of hegelian dialectic. it follows that if you watch this film without some understanding of eisenstein ideas and ideals and you probably would not get it. in alexander nevsky the main characters aren not playing themselves and they are meant to be distillations of their nation character. nevsky and his generals are deliberately shown larger than life and because they represent stylised and heroic aspects of the entire russian people. the acting isn not wooden and it meant to be slightly mannered. it represents a completely different school from the more naturalistic and narrative style which hollywood was rapidly adopting. eisenstein films are especially designed not to be realistic. if anything seems somewhat obvious and whether lighting or language or a pose struck by an actor and it meant to be that way. eisenstein was one of the early proponents of film as an art form and not just as entertainment. if the editing sometimes seems to consist of a clash of images and well and that the idea. shots are meant to contrast with each other and eisenstein films contain and embody elements of a political or philosophical argument and namely marxist dialectic. so sit back and shout hurrah for russia and her folk hero defenders and boo at the cowardly nobles and the teuton invaders and and enjoy the difference. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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