The intense shootout scene featuring a baby carriage rolling down the stairs is a direct tribute to a 1925 silent film.

Category: Reference Homage

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Director Brian De Palma orchestrated the climax of the film at the Union Station steps, where a baby carriage slowly bounces down the marble stairs right through the middle of a violent gunfight. This beautifully tense sequence is a frame-by-frame homage to the legendary "Odessa Steps" montage from Sergei Eisenstein's groundbreaking 1925 silent film, "Battleship Potemkin," a sequence studied in every film school in the world.

The intense shootout scene featuring a baby carriage rolling down the stairs is a direct tribute to a 1925 silent film. in The Untouchables

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