In the plate-smashing scene from Battleship Potemkin, director Sergei Eisenstein creates a contradictory space by:
A. cutting in footage from an early, classic Russian film.
B. mismatching a character's position from shot to shot.
C. originally shooting the scene in continuity style, then assembling the scene's shots in purely random order.
D. using temporal ellipsis to elongate the primary action.
Answer: B
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