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Film Discussion => News and Theory => Topic started by: deathnotronic on April 14, 2005, 01:58:28 PM

Title: Match cuts.
Post by: deathnotronic on April 14, 2005, 01:58:28 PM
What movies have some very good match cuts (whether it be action match, graphical match, our sound match) that I can check out?

The best example I can think of is 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as Un Chien Andalou. For action at least. What else?
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: cowboykurtis on April 14, 2005, 02:02:20 PM
blood simple
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Post by: MacGuffin on April 14, 2005, 02:30:57 PM
Blue Velvet - ear Cuts To the scissors snipping the police tape.

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The 39 Steps - scream into a train whistle.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: kotte on April 14, 2005, 03:24:53 PM
The Graduate - Jumping from the pool up on a matress, landing in bed with Mrs. Robinson.

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Title: Match cuts.
Post by: Redlum on April 14, 2005, 03:33:37 PM
Quote from: kotteThe Graduate - Jumping from the pool up on a matress, landing in bed with Mrs. Robinson.

Second only to Space Odyssey.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: cowboykurtis on April 14, 2005, 03:50:37 PM
id agrue its better
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Post by: SHAFTR on April 14, 2005, 05:57:24 PM
Obvious:  beginning of Citizen Kane with the window.
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Post by: Pubrick on April 14, 2005, 08:23:11 PM
battlefield earth has a few gems. like sumone shovelling to sumone stabbing.
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Post by: modage on April 14, 2005, 10:27:07 PM
Quote from: ®edlum
Quote from: kotteThe Graduate - Jumping from the pool up on a matress, landing in bed with Mrs. Robinson.

Second only to Space Odyssey.
yes, i love that one.  i love match cuts.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: Mr. Merrill Lehrl on April 14, 2005, 11:32:17 PM
Really they're used quite often and are encouraged as a part of film theory.  Most matches are motion.

Michel Gondry is fucking terrific with them.  I haven't seen Eternal Sunshine since the theater, but I imagine it has a lot of them.  His music videos certainly have great examples.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: Stefen on April 14, 2005, 11:33:36 PM
garden state has a few. from someone laughing to crying to exchanging shit. boondock saints also, from brothers being gay, then straight, till a totally diff character being gay.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: SHAFTR on April 14, 2005, 11:40:37 PM
Match cut in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Close-up of Tuco's gun
cut to : Close-up of Canon fire (that nearly hits Blondie & Tuco)
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Post by: cron on April 15, 2005, 09:27:34 AM
does the sex scene in monty python's flying circus where there's a montage of phallic stuff counts?
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Post by: Alethia on April 15, 2005, 09:53:35 AM
the shot from henry fonda's gun firing to the train with claudia cardinale screeching to a halt in the beginning of once upon a time in the west...
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: Gabe on April 16, 2005, 05:49:56 PM
Where can I see some match cuts frame-by-frame?
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: SHAFTR on April 16, 2005, 06:45:06 PM
Quote from: BorjabahWhere can I see some match cuts frame-by-frame?

If i knew an easy way to take screenshots with Mac OS X of DVD Player, i would.
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: MacGuffin on April 16, 2005, 07:23:20 PM
Quote from: BorjabahWhere can I see some match cuts frame-by-frame?

Well, match cuts are really one frame cutting right to the next with a similar visual or audio smash transition, like in The 39 Steps:

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I guess you can make a case for Psycho (although it's more of a match dissolve):

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Or 2001:

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Title: Match cuts.
Post by: pete on April 16, 2005, 07:29:10 PM
there's a stephen chow movie in which a team of kungfu masters get ambushed by another group while stephen chow's character was on vacation with his wife, and he had some funny match cuts.  like one guy was about to get his balls squeezed by an evil kungfu master lady, and then it cut to a bunch of eggs cracking, which pulled out to stephen chow and his wife making breakfast.  and then later there was a shot of a guy's head about to get busted, and it cut to a water melon getting busted, which pulled out to chow and his wife in the market...etc.
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Post by: Ravi on April 16, 2005, 09:40:22 PM
Quote from: SHAFTR
Quote from: BorjabahWhere can I see some match cuts frame-by-frame?

If i knew an easy way to take screenshots with Mac OS X of DVD Player, i would.

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Video/DVD-Capture.shtml

For OS X.2 or later
Title: Match cuts.
Post by: matt35mm on April 16, 2005, 10:18:35 PM
Me, Myself & Irene where Jim Carrey takes a dood on his neighbor's lawn and it match cuts to a chocolate frozen yogurt machine oozing frozen yogurt into a cone.

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Title: Match cuts.
Post by: mogwai on April 17, 2005, 11:33:00 AM
i've updated some of your posts with caps from various movies that has match cuts.