Explain in an essay of 1-2 pages: Your answers will be your opinion. There are no right or wrong answers for questions 2-5 UNLESS your answers show you gave this little or no thought. 1. Research the movie “Battleship Potempkin” and discuss briefly what the movie is about and why it is considered an important and famous movie. 2. Was the sequence effective at communicating a message? 3. What was the message? 4. The video is very violent and disturbing for many. Was the level and amount of violence necessary to communicate the message? 5. There are many closeups of the people in the crowd, many of whom are shot. Why weren’t the faces of the soldiers shown? Battleship Potempkin Odessa Step sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec&bpctr=1591570793 Longer version with more context of what people are celebrating and viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xP-8r7tygo&t=83s Explanation of Potempkin step sequence (directed by Sergei Eisenstein): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5WbeoP_B8E&t=308s