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means A montage is a sequence of short shots or images edited together to compress time, suggest progress, or connect ideas quickly.
from Straight from French monter, 'to mount' or 'assemble' — montage literally means 'mounting' or 'putting together,' the same sense a builder or framer would use. It entered film vocabulary through early-20th-century cinema, especially the Soviet montage theorists like Eisenstein, who treated the cut between two images as the place where meaning is born. So a 'montage' is, at root, just stuff assembled — pieces mounted side by side until they become a story.
- soviet origin
- Eisenstein theorized cuts that collide into new meaning
- french root
- montage literally means assembly or mounting
- rocky effect
- named for training scenes that compress weeks into seconds
- kuleshov trick
- same face plus different shot equals different emotion
- time machine
- compresses years into a three-minute pop song
rocky training montage — 1985 film sequence where rocky runs philadelphia streets set to 'gonna fly now'
flashdance what a feeling — 1983 film montage of alex dancing and welding, became iconic montage template