Lev Kuleshov is the man that created the 'Soviet Montage Theory'. A montage is the idea of images being put together and allowing the audience to portray the characters in different ways. As discussed, facial expressions don't really help the audience interpret what the character is feeling. Kuleshov proved that its more what the audience thinks from their experiences and that facial expressions aren't needed to establish emotions. By using past experiences, audiences are able to use their own imaginations to guess how the character is feeling in a certain situation.
This picture can be used to prove Kuleshov's theory. By using the same picture of a man with a blank impression and then adding another picture to the montage can help the audience work out the emotions of the characters. By adding a coffin to the montage, the feeling of sadness is portrayed and also with the food and the woman. Even though the man has a blank face throughout, audience are able to establish some form of emotion for the character.
We proved this as a class when we were presented with a picture of a man with quite a blank expression. Each member of a class gave a different answer to what they thought the man was feeling and even had an explanation for their answer. With the given situations such as having a lady in a bikini in front of him, each member of the class came up a different idea every time.
This can also be seen in the video of Battleship Potemkin shown in the following blog post.
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