section 3 - James

Section 3

The early cinema pioneers influenced the modern day auteurs a great deal, for example, the creators of montage, (Eisenstein and Kuleshov) both influenced Alfred Hitchcock and the way he used his film and editing techniques within his films, we specifically see this through psycho. We see this as Hitchcock uses metric editing in the shower scene, he has done this to match the horrific music used with the action of the knife stabbing the woman, he also mixes the montage with continuity, thanks to early cinema pioneer D.W Griffith, he uses the transition effect through the scene at the end, this was done to link the two scenes together, of the plug whole and her eye, it is done to link the two shots by dissolving them in and out of each other, making the audience understand that they both have the same meaning.

During this film - The Dark Knight, by Christopher Nolan, we see that there are clear signs that he was influenced by previous pioneers and their editing techniques, during this film, we see that he was heavily influenced by the father of continuity editing, which was D.W Griffiths and that he was also influenced by the montage style from the soviets, naming Kuleshov, by combining the two methods, to form his own artistic style, Nolan used the techniques before him for there stylistic purposes, by using the montage techniques, he took the artistic style, but not all of the political motivation behind soviet montage, this is similar to Hitchcock before him, he also too the artistic style from the montage techniques.
                                                   

Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino 

In the film Death proof, we can see that Tarantino has used continuity methods, created by Griffiths, he did this because we can see he is trying not to make the audience think about the film, like montage would, however, during this scene of the film, we can see that Tarantino deliberately breaks continuity by breaking the 180 degree rule, creating discontinuity, he uses a fast tempo to the chase scene before, to entertain the audience, making the editing fast paced for the audience to feel thrilled and entertained, by breaking continuity purposely, it makes Tarantino an auteur (artist) this is because he has purposely created a new form of technique and a new style.

Inglorious Bastards - Quentin Tarantino

                     

                                                                                                                                                     Tarantino again shows his influence from continuity and montage techniques, as he uses one of the 5 rules of montage - Rhythmic editing, this is used here among a continuity sequence, making the audience entertained throughout, however it is also a montage sequence, this is because there is a flashback used, meaning this immediately makes the audience think about the characters, the rhythmic editing is done to match alongside the action that is taking place.

Kill Bill - Quentin Tarantino 

We can see that Tarantino deliberately breaks continuity by breaking the 180 degree rule, creating discontinuity, this is a continuity sequence as it is a typical fight scene not needing the audience to think, he breaks the 180 degree rule to create disconintuity throughout a continuity sequence, to disrupt the continuity flowing in the scene.

Pulp Fiction - Quinten Tarantino 

During this scene, the editing pace becomes faster, this is done to keep the audience on edge, throughout a continuity sequence, Tarantino was here influenced by Griffith using a continuity sequence

Inception - Chris Nolan

Chris Nolan usually uses continuity, being influenced by D.W Griffith, however, in inception, he uses montage, from the soviets, Kuleshov and Eisenstein, to make the audience think about what they are watching, he uses montage in the his film Inception by using flashbacks and flash forwards, this was done to make the audience think bout the story and the characters involved within it.

Contemporary editing is used to pass time, not needing to make the audience think about what they are watching, this is because it is Hollywood montage, from the US, done to compete with the birth place of montage, which was the soviets, as they are rivals, Hollywood montage is done just to entertain the audience, the political side was left out of Hollywood montage and it was designed not to make the audience think but to make them entertained. It also used montage techniques, such as using rhythm and pace.