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This man identified the various “methods” of one cinematic technique, including “tonal” and “intellectual” capacities. (15[1])As a chorus sings diegetically, two men slowly pour buckets full of coins on top of the protagonist’s head in a film by this director. In a film by this director, a man crawls across the floor to individually beg various nobles before he seemingly falls dead (15[1])but later turns out to be alive, claiming “holy gifts have worked a healing effect.” This director defined (*) montage as a “collision” where shots are on top of each other rather than in sequence. At the end of a film by this director, a long winding line of people marching through snow is seen through an oddly-shaped window by the title tsar. For 10 points, what Soviet filmmaker and theorist directed (10[1])the historical epic Ivan the Terrible some twenty years after his film (10[1])where rotten meat catalyzes a group of sailors to stage a mutiny, Battleship Potemkin? ■END■

ANSWER: Sergei Eisenstein
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