Parallel assembly

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A parallel assembly or cross-section or changing interface (engl. Cross-cutting ) is a technique of film assembly , wherein the repeated back of a film between two or more lines of action and is hergeschnitten.

Parallel montages represent a connection between two or more independent, spatially disparate action segments. As a rule, these events take place simultaneously in the diegesis of the film. However, the cross cut can also bring actions that take place at different times together and thereby create an emotional connection. Parallel assemblies thus mostly serve to increase tension.

The director DW Griffith is considered to be one of the pioneers of this technology in American cinema by using it in 1909 a. a. in the films The Country Doctor and A Corner in Wheat . However, parallel assembly was used earlier, for example in The Great Train Robbery (1903).

Examples

  • A Corner in Wheat (1909): This film contains three episodes, which are shown alternately, in parallel montage. The events do not intersect in any way, on a purely action level. Since political films were not welcomed at the time, A Corner in Wheat was able to release a film in which the viewer himself creates the political connection only through the use of parallel montage.
  • In The Fifth Element , parallel montages are used several times. The screenwriter and director Luc Besson puts these together in such a way that sentences that have been started are ended in a humorous way by people who are far away.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Reclams Sachlexikon des Films . Stuttgart 2002, p. 435.
  2. ↑ Ira Konigsberg: The Comple Film Dictionary . 2nd Ed. New York 1997, pp. 79f.
  3. ^ David Bordwell / Kristin Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction . 9th Ed. New York 2006, pp. 244-245.
  4. ↑ Paolo Cherchi Usai: "Revolutionary Griffith. DW Griffith and the cinema of its time", in: Filmmuseum program booklet November 2010 , edited by Regina Schlagnitweit / Alexander Horwath, Vienna 2010, pp. 3–6.

literature

  • Paolo Cherchi Usai: "Revolutionary Griffith. DW Griffith and the cinema of its time", in: Filmmuseum program booklet November 2010 , edited by Regina Schlagnitweit / Alexander Horwath, Vienna 2010.
  • Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Reclams Sachlexikon des Films . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3150104955
  • Ira Konigsberg: The Comple Film Dictionary . 2nd Ed. New York 1997, ISBN 0670100099
  • David Bordwell / Kristin Thompson: Film Art: An Introduction . 9th Ed. New York 2006, ISBN 9780073386164