Re: To bring this back ON TOPIC...

Philip Gerrard wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> My memory is that DAD's problem, and the problem with this scene in
> particular, was less to do with quick-cutting and more to do with such
> temporarily trendy effects as 'speed-ramping'.
>

Yes, you're right -- I tend to lump the quick cutting and the
speed-ramping together as they seem to be part of the same stylistic
package. In fact I'd say that the overuse of the unholy trifecta of
quick-cutting, speed-ramping, and shaky-cam are the bane of many
action-oriented films over the past ten years.



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