Fans who have lived in "Hot Blood Detective" will definitely be impressed by the following set of shots.
This kind of incoherent lens editing method similar to PPT short shots is a secret technique unique to Edgar Wright. In "Ant-Man", he became the "king of the scene" Michael Pena's brilliant tool.
This editing method + similar to the god synchronization of the small coffee show makes the story in front of the camera produce a magical comedy.
In editing, the editor needs to consider the audience's time to brew emotions, which Marvel movies also do very well.
When we resonate with people on screen, we have time to see their faces before they speak and feel what happens afterwards. What the editor has to decide is how long to give the protagonist's emotions.
"Ant-Man" in this scene Scott's failure scene only took 30 frames, intuitively bringing the audience into Scott's anxious and incomprehensible mood, and even spit out a sentence "what is so fast".
In "Fancy Years", editor Zhang Shuping gave Maggie Cheung a "one shot to the end" four seconds before opening her mouth to express her inner complexity and struggle.
These choices, and the consideration that different choices lead to different effects, are the prerogatives of the editor.
Controlling time is not a conscious process, you just react to the fact that each shot has its own natural rhythm.
There's an intrinsic connection between the story itself, the narrative approach, and the rhythm of the story you tell, and 70% of the editing is about the rhythm.
"Especially in commercial sci-fi or action genre films that emphasize a sense of rhythm, the work of editing is more important." Dylan Tizano said.