Language is much closer to film than painting is.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that language is more similar to film than it is to painting. Films, like language, use a sequence of images, sounds, and movements to tell a story. Paintings, on the other hand, are a single static image. Language has more in common with the dynamic, time-based nature of film compared to the fixed, visual nature of painting.
About Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet film director and theorist known for his influential silent films like Battleship Potemkin and October. He was a master of the montage technique and has been recognized as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents – as an element – the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
Soviet filmmaker (1898-1948)
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Soviet filmmaker (1898-1948)