Fast cutting

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Fast cutting is a

One famous example of fast cutting is the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960).

More recent examples include the can-can scene in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001).

The film Mind Game makes extensive use of fast cutting to convey hundreds of short scenes in the space of fifteen minutes.

In Run Lola Run, fast cutting is used to quickly tell stories about minor characters to show how the casual actions of the protagonists have profound impact on what happens to them.

In various moments in the Saw movies, fast cutting is used frequently during trap scenes, which represent their frantic struggle to escape the trap.

Director Michael Bay makes extensive use of fast-cutting in many of his feature films. He uses the technique most prominently during action sequences, in which it is used to make the action more energetic and intense.

Hip hop montage

A hip hop montage is a subset of fast cutting used in

It was used earlier in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. Guy Ritchie also used the technique in Snatch to portray transcontinental travel. The work of Edgar Wright, most notably in his collaboration with Simon Pegg (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End) uses the technique for comedic effect.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt used the technique extensively in Don Jon (2013) to portray the main character's habits.

See also

• Slow cutting
• kinestasis

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