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Re: To bring this back ON TOPIC...

Philip Gerrard wrote:
> To me, quick cutting is like CGI: you have to deal with it on a case-by-case
> basis rather than applying blanket rules, which I think this article does.
> Yes, of course there have been many, many over-edited and trendily flashy
> action movies over the last few years, but imposing universal standards,
> derived from past movies, from which no movie should ever deviate is hugely
> counter-productive IMO.

I agree with your basic point here, but I think the problem is that this
quick-cut editing style is so *prevalent* in action films (at least
western action films). Essentially, this style is fashionable, and it is
automatically applied to all action sequences without regard for if it
fits the film or not. In time, when quick cutting has lots its hipness,
it will hopefully be relegated to the cinematic toolbox and the great
editors and filmmakers, those that we can consider to be artists, will
pull it out to achieve a certain desired aesthetic in a sequence.

Right now it is overused as a tool, likely because some filmmakers lack
confidence and do not want their films to be perceived as unhip or "old
school." This same attitude, IMHO, infected DAD, with the producers and
director afraid of Bond becoming old school among the modern crop of
quick-cut action films. The cutting in the ice lake car chase is
atrocious, almost ruining this already OTT sequence.

I don't agree with *ahem* certain other posters that quick-cutting
similarly ruined the stairwell fight from CR. The cutting there was
fast, but entirely appropriate to the tempo of the action, plus I'm 41
and certifiably old school but had no problem following the action.
Compare the editing there with that of the parkour chase from the
beginning, which is fast but offers panoptic views of the action so the
viewer is always oriented as to who is doing what to whom. In other
words, the editors pulled out a faster cutting style when it was needed,
and had the confidence to not trend-hop and apply this style to the
whole film.


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