Montages, montages, montages...
Many people often mention this word when writing film reviews. Let's talk about it today: what the hell, what is, montage?
The montage, derived from its French transliteration, originally meant combination and assembly, representing a means of narration and expression in the film. So what kind of expression is it? The director does not shoot the film in one go, but shoots separately, and finally according to the needs of the plot, the scattered shots are combined to form a complete movie, this technique is called film montage.
As we talked about in the previous episode, the split shot is the basis of montage. To translate the concepts in books into a simple sentence: any edited film composed of split shots, no matter how long or short, belongs to montage.
The person who wanted to carry forward the montage was Griffith, the old predecessor of the film.
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Later, the film bid farewell to the silent film era, and with sound, the meaning of montage became more and more abundant. Not only the relationship between the picture and the picture, but also the relationship between sound and sound, sound and picture.
Take, for example, a passage from Dunkirk. Just looking at the picture, it is just soldiers walking on the beach, but Nolan has assigned a "Shepard tone" to make you feel heart-wrenching when you hear it.
The vibration of the sound effect here is amplified, giving the audience a nervous psychological hint, this kind of picture with the sound of the montage processing method, can fully mobilize the emotions, let the audience feel empathy, there is an immersive sense of despair.
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Since montages are so important, what are the ways to express them? In just over a hundred years, many film artists and film theorists have classified montages, and let's focus on the most common Pudokkinf classification.
Xiao Pu, a famous director and famous film theorist in the former Soviet Union, believes that montages can be divided into five categories:
Contrast montages, such as in Titanic, where the Titanic sinks slowly and the vocals scream and panic, but the violinist still plays the music calmly; the contrast between the emotions of the two sides emphasizes the scene.
Parallel Montage, "The Queen In Prada" different girls dress up carefully before going to work, showing the exquisite and moving fashion editing circle; multiple scenes of multiple scenes develop themes in parallel, and finally come together.
Analogous or symbolic montage, in Superbody, the transformed Lucy and the unrelated wild animal are edited together, and the change in the animal's state hints at her fate of being captured;
Crossover or action develop montage at the same time, "Young You" Xiao bei and Chen Nian are interrogated in different rooms, and the two experience independent interrogation lines, cross-travel, and eventually become one;
The theme is repeatedly montaged, and most documentaries like to mix and cut together clips from different locations and different times at the end of the film, highlighting the same center of gravity to set off the theme.
Therefore, just saying where the montage is used, the effect is particularly good, and it can only be regarded as the entry level of film criticism. Those who can detail the montage subdivision category are the masters! In addition to these kinds of montages, there are also large and small performance montages, thought montages, upside-down montages, continuous montages, accumulation montages, juggling montages, lyrical montages, psychological montages, rational montages, reflex montages, and so on.
Knock on the blackboard! Let's give you a concise summary of these forms of montage.
It is the technical montage that simply connects the picture, shot, and sound group into a film, such as "Green Mist"; and through the cutting and editing of the inside and outside parts of the shots, scenes, paragraphs, etc., it is the montage of artistic means, such as "Superbody"; the way of creating the film rises to the level of aesthetics and philosophy, and it is the thinking montage, such as "Dunkirk".
Montage is always the special grammar of the movie, the film has a montage, from time and space has a great freedom of narration, all wildest dreams are no longer crazy, more infectious and vital, which is probably one of the reasons why we love movies.
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