The boot camp in Love and Death is a mirror of the boot camp in Bananas . Guns fall apart, Boris is out of synch with the other soldiers and when the soldiers visit a brothel Boris visits the opera. The costumes and the sets in the film are very historically minded. Besides the fact that Woody wears his modern day glasses and has a New York accent, the historical achievements of the film are down to the very last detail in some scenes. The battle sequences after Boris leaves boot camp are rather goofy, and looking closely you notice many soldiers standing around while others are fighting.
Sheep show up for the battles as well.
In the first of Battleship Potemkin parodies, a soldier has one side of his eyeglasses broken while blood pours down his cheek just like the bleeding woman on the Odessa Step sequence. Hiding in a canon, Boris is shot onto a tent of French generals making him a war hero. Coming home, he gets into some trouble with a countess and her marksman lover challenges him to a duel. Hearing this news, Sonia decides to marry Boris knowing he will be dead soon. Sonia makes him meals out of snow and lets him have kisses based on a meter system.