News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

HEATHER O'DONNELL PIANIST

Annotations is one of filming

Capital of Marx

According to the exercise books of notes of Eisenstein, 1927/28

The decision-is taken, the Capital

According to the itinerary of I will be going to film K. Marx-

Possible this is the only one formal exit /

Yesterday I thought very much on the Capital

in Joyce's Ulysses is there on that

the marvelous chapter,

written in scholastic way catechist /

questions arises

and give answers to this

questions on how a kerosene lamp is lit

the responses are, however, metaphysical die /

The theme of the looms

and the attack on the machine the weavers need

notice the following conflict:

electric trolley in Shanghai

and thousands of 'coolies' who thus left without support

that lie on the tracks

and die /

A good episode in Paris /

with the amputated leg on

soapbox car,

commits suicide

is playing in the water

During the whole movie a soup

is cooked by the woman who returns to her husband /

The woman who cooks and the husband who comes back /

The association of the third part (for example) comes from pepper,

with which she peppers: cayenne pepper /

devilishly spicy / Dreyfus /

ships sunk in the harbor /

British ships that sink

could very well cover the pan to be covered /

instead of course could also be pepper

oil for the stove Primus

and a shift to the "oil" /

Irmela ROELCKE PIANIST

"October 12, 1927.

I decided to film "The Capital" based on the text of Karl Marx.

This is the only formal solution possible.

Night of November 4, 1927.

In the U.S., even the cemeteries have owners.

Full competition, bribed doctors and so on.

The dying receive brochures ...

"Only here you will find eternal peace ...

the shade of trees and bubbling stream.

For "The Capital". "

"January 2, 1928.

For "The Capital".

The stock market should not be represented as a bag ...

as in "The Player", except through thousands of details.

The receptionists as shareholders.

The pressure of these receptionists ...

to Soviet Russia recognizes his guilt. "

"April 4, 1928.

Analysis of a half inch of silk.

April 7, 1928, 0h45.

A female half torn ...

silk stockings and a newspaper ad.

The last start stirring and multiplies in 50 pairs of legs.

Theatre magazine.

Silk.

Arts.

Battle for a half inch of silk.

The old genre depicting a story from multiple perspectives.

The new genus publishes a perspective ...

from multiple frames. "

On repetition /

with a view to dialectical analysis

ie an analysis of contradictions,

a procedure like this is something great /

Thus the following should be formulated:

a pair of silk stockings-art /

a pair of silk stockings-Moral /

a pair of silk stockings trade and competition /

a pair of silk stockings-Indian women,

that silk cocoons under their armpits

need to incubate! /

Here we have a silk stocking the highest quality ...

and here, the garter belt ...

which is put on the hip of a woman ...

and closed back.

So the woman took care not to tear it up ...

pulls the half up, right leg or left.

When a man gives off this union between half ...

garter belt and the female body ...

Without care, there is a risk of running a wire.

Silk / Art /

Fight for a half-inch silk /

the aesthetes are for /

and the Bishops

Against moral /

But these puppets dancing on strings

Manufacturers of tissue and with them

are in conflict

producers of fabrics for the upper garment /

In the last part of the soup is ready /

a soup with no nutritional value /

The husband comes "socially angry" /

The hot soup water dilutes ...

its pathos conciliation /

prospect of bloody clashes /

and the worst is -

the social indifference,

equivalent to treason social /

The man embraces the skeleton of his wife /

a "surprise" (in fact lyrical):

She hands him a cigarette cheap /

The amplitude point of the material which can be fluid /

It needs to be resolved with incredible brevity,

namely, each party in its own way /

Possibly even a part as "fiction film"

Another piece of cinematic chronicle /

A section is necessary for an understanding material

"Soul" /

On October 12, 1927 ...

Eisenstein writes this first entry ...

"I decided to shoot" The Capital ", based on the text of Karl Marx."

How was this day?

Well, it was the day following the end of filming "October".

He immediately went to Moscow and started on the 12th edit ...

because on November 7 ...

estrearia the film in commemoration of the Bolshoi Theatre.

There were 49,000 meters of film ...

that should be reduced ...

to 2000 meters, was the condition.

Two one thousand meters equals about 90 minutes.

What about said he filmed? -49 Thousand meters.

are preserved? -Partially.

For the first time in my life ...

he had complete freedom of resources for production.

At that time, a Soviet film normal ...

cost about $ 30 to $ 40 thousand rubles.

His film "October", although they spend in original scenes ...

cost $ 800 thousand rubles.

He felt the Cecil B. De Mille's Soviet cinema ...

and thought that filmed the movie most of the story ...

"The Ten Commandments of the October Revolution."

The film received widespread support.

The Central Committee discussed and corrected the script several times.

Eisenstein had the whole city for him, he could shoot at night ...

and turned off the electricity from the city to make a scene ...

and the bridges were raised and lowered in the middle of the day ...

a gigantic operation.

And now he had a mission to convert into a movie ...

these thousands of feet of footage.

And this was impossible, because there was enough time.

To work day and night, he took prescription amphetamines ...

drugs to improve athletic performance, as we call today ...

and once it was followed 48 hours in the editing room.

But two weeks after this marathon ...

he was blind.

Blind? He did not see the images? -Blind.

I could not see the images. It was hard to see that Moviola ...

This was not a Moviola editing table ...

but an image viewer with tiny frame ...

like on the internet today. -It. And the whole movie ...

everything that he edited, with his mind made ...

later partially revised and corrected what he could.

He was totally exhausted.

And that state of health, in the middle of editing "October" ...

and thinking that is creating a new kind of cinema ...

completely different films he has done ...

totally different from anything else ...

think after that ...

the only thing that could be filming "The Capital".

During the course of this work ...

you are blind and totally exhausted ...

in which the film can not reduce the 2000 meters ...

he thinks the theory and content of a film that does not exist ...

Eisenstein MEETS THE JOYCE ULYSSES ... and begins to fill ...

Eisenstein MEETS THE JOYCE ULYSSES ... begins to write this diary.

He goes to psychoanalysts to treat, because it feels ...

your creative ability is blocked.

And going to three doctors to cure the neuroses and the crisis ...

and in view of its total nervous breakdown ...

he is sent to the south.

He goes and takes a book, this woman by Maxim Litvinov ...

"Ulysses", Joyce.

When he embarks ... -In Russian

No, in English. And in German. -In English.

Speaking in tongues, Eisenstein spoke French ...

English, German, Russian ... some other

Yes, a little Spanish she learned in Mexico.

These are the languages ​​they spoke.

Sometimes he would change language in mid-sentence.

In his mind, everything was mixed, as in Babel.

He does not feel that blends ...

but uses the language or the word of the language ...

What better fits. -What better fits.

So, write a sentence in five languages ​​...

if needed.

And the interesting thing is that his tongue close ...

that uses journaling is the German language.

this diary, notes that accompany these ...

are from 1927-1928 until 1929.

In 1929, no more notes, but their plans remain.