Thursday, October 2, 2008
Gonna Need a Montage
The montage has been a highly used cinematic technique. The montage is usually used for training scene for sports films to show the audience the person or persons improvement from a humiliating defeat early in the film from the main antagonists. The television show South Park made a parody of this method in the season six episode entitled Asspen when stan goes through some supposedly rigorous training in order to beat the antagonist of the episode in a skiing contest, throughout the sequence to the song "Gonna Need A Montage". Though in the final race of the episode stan's skill is still roughly the same as it has been throughout the episode, but with the help of the "hot nerdy girl" stan is able to win the race despite being incredibly far behind. Another example of the use of the montage method would of corse be the Rocky movies in which rocky always appears to be the underdog and losses early in the film and goes through numerous training sequences and usually ends up winning, aside from the first movie. so these are some examples of the montage technique.
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dear will. i agree with everything u said. it really like sentance 3 where u said good stuff about it. i like you blog de art for film. it a good example of what you said about it well. FIN
Absolutely I have to agree that Rocky is a very good example of a montage. I also agree with you that montages are usually in sports movies to show people how the character improves fro, the beginning of the film to the end.
Yeah, Montages are very handy. I also agree with otto and peter; but I think sentence 4 was goodest. Rocky is a great example of a montage... Isn't there one in every single Rocky movie? He gets owned at the start, goes through a training montage, and then roflpwns the opponent from the start in a climactic showdown. Good stuff.
yeah! Montage!
my whole life is a montage, but it effectively captures long duration changes very quickly and if thats what floats your boat, well then. all the power to ya.
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