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" Every Wednesday we show you a great scene from film history you may remember, you may not \u2014 and then we break it down for you. Brian De Palma is known for his scenes. The much-loved, even-more-hated director of classics including Carrie and Scarface puts an exhausting amount of effort into sequences that unspool in tracking shots, zooms, slo-mos, split-frames, and just about every other trick you can throw an undergraduate film workshop at. Except they&amp;#039;re also generally incredibly fun to watch. He&amp;#039;s also known for stealing. Well, okay, a fan of his (as I am) would never call it stealing, but what else can you call the greatest scene from one of the greatest gangster movies, The Untouchables, the climactic shootout in which Kevin Costner blows the heads off some mobsters while a baby carriage dangles down a marble stairwell in slow motion? It&amp;#039;s ripped pretty literally from a scene in Battleship Potemkin, by Sergei Eisenstein, the first man to truly figure out how to make movies move. The baby trick is both cheap suspense and humane, implying that there is something larger at stake than the fight \u2014 the future everyone&amp;#039;s fighting for. In Potemkin, the scene is epic, historical, unnerving. In The Untouchables, it is, too, just in a glossy, &amp;#039;80s, Kevin Costner kinda way. De Palma always proves: If you steal, steal from the best. And then make it yours.      Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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