History Main / BladeOfGrassCut

->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.

* Visible in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' in a fade in/out of a tree branch with dew, set to "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".

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

* Used several times in ''Film/{{Walkabout}}'' to show the bugs and lizards of the Australian outback that the main characters are wandering through.
* Many of the shots during musical sequences of ''Film/EasyRider''.
** A classic, almost definitive example can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o&feature=fvw found here.]]

* Creator/TerrenceMalick is fond of this trope.
** ''Film/{{Badlands}}'': As Kit and Holly hide out in the woods after he murdered her father, living an idyllic existence in a crude hut, there are several closeups of bugs and flowers and other flora and fauna.
** ''Film/TheThinRedLine''. Body blows up -- cut to blade of grass. Man slowly dying -- cut to birds preening in the trees. Narrator asks "why is nature at war with itself?" -- cut to a crocodile swimming.
* This may include the film ''Film/LaJetee'', which is made up of ''all'' still shots with one motion shot.

* Many shots in ''Film/DancerInTheDark'' are examples of this.
* Rosebud does not apply in ''Film/CitizenKane'', but the snowglobe possibly does. In fact, snowglobes in general.
* [[http://camswonks.blogs.com/cinesthesia/2005/03/hill_on_the_fil.html: Karina Hill]] writes about [[Creator/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."-]
** To illustrate, here are some examples from ''Film/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.
* During David's first transformation in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'', the film cuts briefly to a smiling Mickey Mouse figurine, then back to David completing the transformation.
* In ''Film/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.
* As ''Film/BartonFink'' slowly loses it in his HellHotel, we get a lot of these showing details of his room. One long, slow zoom right before a particularly nasty scene takes us into the bathroom, up to the sink, and [[BlackComedy down the drain]].
* In the Creator/AlfonsoCuaron version of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', Sara and the camera briefly focus on a balloon when Miss Minchin tells her what happened to her father.
* Soviet propaganda film ''Film/Earth1930'' is about a farming village that's converting from individual farms to a collective. It includes many close-ups of the products of the earth�fruit on the vine, sunflowers, melons, wheat. These are juxtaposed with close-ups of the peasants, suggesting that they also are part of the land.

* ''Film/DaughtersOfTheDust'' includes several close ups of the reeds and the wildlife of St. Helena.

* Soviet propaganda film ''Film/{{Earth}}'' is about a farming village that's converting from individual farms to a collective. It includes many close-ups of the products of the earth�fruit on the vine, sunflowers, melons, wheat. These are juxtaposed with close-ups of the peasants, suggesting that they also are part of the land.

* ''Disney/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.

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

** A classic, almost definitive example can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o&feature=fvw here]].

* Seen in most UsefulNotes/{{Dogme 95}} films, such as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7DoHUY3-TY&feature=related The Idiots]]''.

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

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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', there is a panning shot of a rack of bikes on campus while Light and L are conversing.

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* Soviet propaganda film ''Film/{{Earth}}'' is about a farming village that's converting from individual farms to a collective. It includes many close-ups of the products of the earth—fruit on the vine, sunflowers, melons, wheat. These are juxtaposed with close-ups of the peasants, suggesting that they also are part of the land.

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* 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.
* As BartonFink slowly loses it in his HellHotel, we get a lot of these showing details of his room. One long, slow zoom right before a particularly nasty scene takes us into the bathroom, up to the sink, and [[BlackComedy down the drain]].

** ''TheThinRedLine''. Body blows up -- cut to blade of grass. Man slowly dying -- cut to birds preening in the trees. Narrator asks "why is nature at war with itself?" -- cut to a crocodile swimming.

* Seen in most {{Dogme 95}} films, such as ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7DoHUY3-TY&feature=related The Idiots]]''.

* Many examples are silent or musical, many have dialogue, often painful dialogue, going over. ''HighHopes'' by Mike Leigh has quite a few "overlong" shots of doors, an elderly lady's dentures, a series of shots of gravestones, often used to reflect a malaise of the characters.

* Soviet propaganda film ''Film/{{Earth}} is about a farming village that's converting from individual farms to a collective. It includes many close-ups of the products of the earth—fruit on the vine, sunflowers, melons, wheat. These are juxtaposed with close-ups of the peasants, suggesting that they also are part of the land.

* In the second ''SisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' book, [[TheUnfavorite Tibby]] is taking a college film course for the summer and makes her project a bitter portrait of her mother, tricking her by only asking to interview her when she's busy, so that all the shots she gets are of her mother looking harried and telling her she can't talk right now. The {{Jerkass}}-but-talented kid she's trying to befriend at the college suggests that she add in shots like a patch of dead grass in the yard so that it doesn't "get predictable."

* ''TheBiggestLoser'' often does scenery cutaways as transitions, but in 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. [[FauxSymbolism The rose had nothing to do with anything]].

* In ''DeathNote'', there is a panning shot of a rack of bikes on campus while Light and L are conversing.

* ''TheThinRedLine''. Body blows up -- cut to blade of grass. Man slowly dying -- cut to birds preening in the trees. Narrator asks "why is nature at war with itself?" -- cut to a crocodile swimming.

* In ''DeathNote'', there is a panning shot of a rack of bikes on campus while Light and L are conversing. This was not lost on the [=1Kids=] AbridgedSeries, in which Light rants at length asking how bikes have any significance to what's going on. The episode that contains this rant is even named "Bikes".

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

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

* Visible in ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' in a fade in/out of a tree branch with dew, set to "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".

* This may include the film ''LaJetee'', which is made up of ''all'' still shots with one motion shot.

* Used to particularly creepy effect in ''{{Eraserhead}}'' by DavidLynch.

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