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* In the AlfonsoCuaron version of ''ALittlePrincess'', Sara and the camera briefly focus on a balloon when Miss Minchin tells her what happened to her father.

* During David's first transformation in ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', the film cuts briefly to a smiling Mickey Mouse figurine, then back to David completing the transformation.

* Many of the shots during musical sequences of ''EasyRider''.

* Many shots in ''DancerInTheDark'' are examples of this.

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* During David's first transformation in ''AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', the film cuts to a smiling Mickey Mouse figurine, then cuts right back to David completing the transformation.

** To illustrate, here are some examples from ''BattleshipPotemkin'': A shot of an officer tapping the hilt of his sword is followed by a shot of a priest tapping his crucifix, to imply the connection between the Church and the oppressive tsarist government; an officer is dumped overboard and a shot of the water churning after he falls is compared to an earlier close-up of the maggot-ridden meat that let to the revolt; and the famous three successive shots of lion statues in progressive stages of standing up, symbolizing the people standing up against oppression.

What it is '''not:''' Shots of an object with major significance to the subject (the Ring in ''LordOfTheRings'', the Coffee and the Cigarettes in ''Coffee And Cigarettes'', [[ItWasHisSled Rosebud]]...)

* [[http://camswonks.blogs.com/cinesthesia/2005/03/hill_on_the_fil.html: Karina Hill]] writes about [[SergeiEisenstein Eisenstein]]: [-"His associational montages use dialectic elements to activate audience emotions. Generally, his associational montages are used to sadden or disgust the audience. Intellectual montage is the colliding of two unrelated shots in order to arrive at an understanding of an abstract concept or message. The Soviet system within which he worked emphasized the social utility of film and he believed that film could be used to reeducate the public. Therefore, Eisenstein used montages to incite physiological, emotional, and intellectual responses in spectators, with the ultimate goal of motivating them to take action."-]

-->-- William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow", illustrating this trope with a poem.
** Supposedly one of the most parodied poems of all time... or is it [[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535 "This Is Just to Say"]]? F.J. Bergmann got both of them:
----> Forgive me\\
for backing over\\
and smashing\\
your red wheelbarrow.\\
\\
It was raining\\
and the rear wiper\\
does not work on\\
my new plum-colored SUV.\\
\\
I am also sorry\\
about the white\\
chickens.

* ''{{Watchmen}}'' combines this with {{Motif}}, cutting in between panels to random symbolic objects (including a snowglobe and a rose, see below) flying in stop motion to symbolize the character's thoughts, immutability of time [[BuffySpeak and stuff]].

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* ''TheLionKing'': as Simba climbs Pride Rock to take his rightful place as king, there is a brief shot of a wildebeest skull being washed away in the rain, as if to indicate that the land is being cleansed of the excesses of Scar's regime.

* Rosebud does not apply in ''CitizenKane'', but the snowglobe possibly does. In fact, snowglobes in general.

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This trope more often than not has a melancholy or painful tone to it. It often feels emotionally detached or wistful.

covered with rain\\

-->[+-- William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow", illustrating this trope with a poem.+]

* During David's first transformation in AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon, the film cuts to a smiling Mickey Mouse figurine, then cuts right back to David completing the transformation.
* In TaxiDriver, there is a scene where Travis is at a table with some cabbie colleagues, and while the conversation is going on around him, the camera cuts to a slow push into his glass of water with alka-seltzer in it. It's a great way to illustrate his increasing social and emotional isolation.

* Many of the shots during musical sequences of ''EasyRider''.\\
A classic, almost definitive example can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o&feature=fvw here]].

The technical term for this trope in cinema is Associational Montage, or Intellectual Montage. ''[[http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html The Grammar of Film & Television]]'' writes:

* [[http://camswonks.blogs.com/cinesthesia/2005/03/hill_on_the_fil.html: Karina Hill]] writes about SergeiEisenstein Eisenstein]]: [-"His associational montages use dialectic elements to activate audience emotions. Generally, his associational montages are used to sadden or disgust the audience. Intellectual montage is the colliding of two unrelated shots in order to arrive at an understanding of an abstract concept or message. The Soviet system within which he worked emphasized the social utility of film and he believed that film could be used to reeducate the public. Therefore, Eisenstein used montages to incite physiological, emotional, and intellectual responses in spectators, with the ultimate goal of motivating them to take action."-]

* [[http://camswonks.blogs.com/cinesthesia/2005/03/hill_on_the_fil.html: Karina Hill]] writes about {{Eisenstein}}: [-"His associational montages use dialectic elements to activate audience emotions. Generally, his associational montages are used to sadden or disgust the audience. Intellectual montage is the colliding of two unrelated shots in order to arrive at an understanding of an abstract concept or message. The Soviet system within which he worked emphasized the social utility of film and he believed that film could be used to reeducate the public. Therefore, Eisenstein used montages to incite physiological, emotional, and intellectual responses in spectators, with the ultimate goal of motivating them to take action."-]
** To illustrate, here are some examples from ''BattleshipPotempkin'': A shot of an officer tapping the hilt of his sword is followed by a shot of a priest tapping his crucifix, to imply the connection between the Church and the oppressive tsarist government; an officer is dumped overboard and a shot of the water churning after he falls is compared to an earlier close-up of the maggot-ridden meat that let to the revolt; and the famous three successive shots of lion statues in progressive stages of standing up, symbolizing the people standing up against oppression.

** To illustrate, here are some examples from ''BattleshipPotempkin'': A shot of an officer tapping the hilt of his sword is followed by a shot of a priest tapping his crucifix, to imply the connection between the Church and the opresssive tsarist government; an officer is dumped overboard and a shot of the water churning after he falls is compared to an earlier close-up of the maggot-ridden meat that let to the revolt; and the famous three succesive shots of lion statues in progressive stages of standing up, symbolizing the people standing up against opression.
* ''TheLionKing'': as Simba climbs Pride Rock to take his rightful place as king, there is a brief shot of a wilderbeest skull being washed away in the rain, as if to indicate that the land is being cleansed of the excesses of Scar's regime.

* ''TheBiggestLoser'' often does scenery cutaways as transitions, but in a recent episode (Season 9, episode 17), there was a bizarre close-up of a single wild rose, wet with dew, sandwiched between two of the scenery shots. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic The rose had nothing to do with anything]].

->[+"[[SeriousBusiness So much depends]] \\

chickens."+]

->[+The juxtaposition of short shots to represent action or ideas; Intellectual montage is used to consciously convey subjective messages through the juxtaposition of shots which are related in composition or movement, through repetition of images, through cutting rhythm, detail or metaphor. Montage editing, unlike invisible editing, uses conspicuous techniques which may include: use of close- ups, relatively frequent cuts, dissolves, superimposition, fades and jump cuts. Such editing should suggest a particular meaning.+]

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