The Five Methods of Montage

Metric montage in The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson effectively uses metric montage in many of his films to give the movie a fluid flow (creating tempo).

Rhythmic montage in Rocky

This montage allows Rocky’s training to be condensed into a short musical montage highlighting his determination/triumph.

Over-tonal montage in Up

Here the over-tonal montage functions almost as its own short film compressing the couples love story.

Intellectual Montage in Strike

The intellectual montage allows those two images to juxtapose, forming a new meaning/connection between the cow and the civilians (the series of shots of the deceased and murdered civilians sprawled on the ground runs parallel to the cow’s throat being brutally slashed open with a knife, as the cow slowly bleeds to death).

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