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The "Odessa Steps" scene is a StockParody of the climactic scene from ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'', where a crowd of civilians is ruthlessly cut down by soldiers as they flee down a broad stone staircase. The main elements of this trope are 1) violence 2) on a staircase (duh), with 3) the horror prolonged through camera tricks like SlowMotion or extended shots/repeated footage to give the impression of never-ending carnage. Optional: Oncoming soldiers, the scene taking place in eerie silence (or with any human voices silenced), [[MoeGreeneSpecial a character shot through the eyeglasses]], and a BabyCarriage descending the stairs unescorted in a similar fashion to EmpathyDollShot. Though many people remember the famous scene in the train station of ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', they may not be familiar with the fact that this itself was a complete reference to a grander version set on the [[TropeNamer steps at Odessa]] in ''Battleship Potemkin''.
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The "Odessa Steps" scene is a StockParody of the climactic scene from ''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'', where a crowd of civilians of Odessa (formerly UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia, nowadays' UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}}, spelled there in romanized as "Odesa") is ruthlessly cut down by soldiers as they flee down a broad stone staircase. The main elements of this trope are 1) violence 2) on a staircase (duh), with 3) the horror prolonged through camera tricks like SlowMotion or extended shots/repeated footage to give the impression of never-ending carnage. Optional: Oncoming soldiers, the scene taking place in eerie silence (or with any human voices silenced), [[MoeGreeneSpecial a character shot through the eyeglasses]], and a BabyCarriage descending the stairs unescorted in a similar fashion to EmpathyDollShot. Though many people remember the famous scene in the train station of ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', they may not be familiar with the fact that this itself was a complete reference to a grander version set on the [[TropeNamer steps at Odessa]] in ''Battleship Potemkin''.
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* ''Film/TheNakedGunThirtyThreeAndAThird'': Frank has a flashback to the time he witnessed ''multiple'' baby carriages tumbling down a flight of stairs, and [[Creator/OJSimpson Nordberg]] managed to save one - though had to be stopped from [[ActorAllusion spiking the baby after the save]].
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* ''Film/TheNakedGunThirtyThreeAndAThird'': ''Film/NakedGunThirtyThreeAndAThird'': Frank has a flashback to the time he witnessed ''multiple'' baby carriages tumbling down a flight of stairs, and [[Creator/OJSimpson Nordberg]] managed to save one - though had to be stopped from [[ActorAllusion spiking the baby after the save]].
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* ''Film/Dune2021'': Creator/DenisVilleneuve deliberately modeled the clash between the Atreides and Harkonnen soldiers on the steps of the Arrakeen Residency after the iconic scene.
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[[caption-width-right:212:What a long staircase.]]
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