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I particularly like the way that juxtaposition works in so many time-travel stories as they jump-cut between and among past, present, and future space-times.
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His quick jump-cut moves are sometimes reminiscent of Barry Sanders or LaDainian Tomlinson, but Moreno's lack of elite speed will probably keep him out of the draft's top 10 picks.
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Picture the 24-year-old, philosophically-inclined, possibly zonked-out Malick seeing it for the first time in 1968, watching Kubrick vault, in a jump-cut, from the dawn of man and the invention of violence into meticulously realised space travel sequences, through the Stargate hallucination into a space beyond … uh, time and space.
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A jump-cut to today's art fairs, gossipy Internet chatter, and ubiquitous and extreme extensions of what an L.A. artist said to me in the 1970s—"Hey Pete, I think I've figured out a way to make some paintings"—is hardly a jump at all.
When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011
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Picture the 24-year-old, philosophically-inclined, possibly zonked-out Malick seeing it for the first time in 1968, watching Kubrick vault, in a jump-cut, from the dawn of man and the invention of violence into meticulously realised space travel sequences, through the Stargate hallucination into a space beyond … uh, time and space.
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The jump-cut from 1895 to 802,701 lets Wells compare, in a very immediate way, the vibrant present of Victorian industrialism and the devolved far-future of the barely human Eloi and Morlocks.
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Because the jump-cut ethos of the book means that it takes effort with each scene break to orient youself (which is an artistic choice in this case; this is an observation rather than a critique), which messes with the line of direction and the flow through the book, and results in a somewhat mentally strenuous reading process.
through the dustbowl, through the debt, grandma was a suffragette ianmcdonald 2008
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He maintains a delirious, jump-cut pace as words flash dark-to-light-to-dark, and sentences coil and snap, conjuring a macabre carnival atmosphere.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Rather than simply fade out and fade in, or jump-cut, he calls attention to his move from scene to scene with the insertion of a visual effect whose closest equivalent is that moment in so many Looney Tunes cartoons when a character is momentarily electrocuted - and they suddenly turn into a black-and-white x-ray of a skeleton.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Tony Scott and Unstoppable Marshall Fine 2010
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Rather than simply fade out and fade in, or jump-cut, he calls attention to his move from scene to scene with the insertion of a visual effect whose closest equivalent is that moment in so many Looney Tunes cartoons when a character is momentarily electrocuted - and they suddenly turn into a black-and-white x-ray of a skeleton.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Tony Scott and Unstoppable Marshall Fine 2010
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