The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein Toward the end of the sequence, the soldiers shoot a mother who is pushing a baby carriage. She falls to the ground, and as she dies she accidentally kicks the carriage away; it rolls down the steps alongside the frightened crowd. This scene has been endlessly referenced in many motion pictures, with famous homages occurring in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Brian De Palma’s version of The Untouchables, and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (except the troopers marched up the stairs).
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