I was always told that Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" was the first film to use the now-common shot of an army approaching from over a hilltop, but I found a similar shot from Sergei Eisenstein's "Strike" from 30 years earlier

https://youtu.be/hG_yM7We0C8?t=2439

Submitted April 11, 2020 at 04:06AM by Neon_Parrott https://ift.tt/2VkA84z