2. WHAT IS IT THAT IS UNEXPECTED?
Sergei saw how cinema began to develop.
In Kabuki, Sergei Eisenstein saw effects
that might be achieved through a camera.
3. What Surprised Eisenstein?
Eisenstein praised the Japanese
for their instinctive practice.
He admired the Sergei also admired the
mechanical cutting by fragmented acting. That's
actors. The actor were where an actor would act
able to break up their a scene with their single
acting without transitions. body part. The next
An actor was able to shift scene would be a
their emotions, which was different body part. The
similar to how Eisenstein time of each shirt would
shifted emotions in the decrease, which would
way he cut shots. cause more a dramatic
affect.
4. How does Eisenstein relate his
experience to cinema?
He relates his experience with
Japan and the Kabuki in many
ways. One is he talks about the
“Karauki-musume” is a
melodramatic farce. How this
ends in “incredible gloom” and
for long intervals is criminally
torn in both directions. (27)
5. His experience to
cinema Cont.
Eisenstein mentions that trying to combine
elements is one of the hardest things to do.
He also talks about how Charlie Chaplin
was unable to balance tying the elements
together. This shows how difficult it may
be. Eisenstein also mentions the archaism
of non-differentiated sense of
“provocations” and “montage thinking.” (27)
Eisenstein took away thins from the Kabuki
theatre which he could relate to his own
work.
6. What is Conventionalism?
the philosophical attitude that
fundamental principles of a certain kind
are grounded on (explicit or implicit)
agreements in society, rather than on
external reality
7. Are conventional! How can such conventions
move Europeans?!”
Use a monistic ensemble
“Sound-movement-space-voice don’t
accompany another, but each are an
element of significance.”
KABUKI THEATRE
