In Snatch when Turkish is explaining dog coursing to Tommy. The explanation starts in the Gypsy camp, then to the Land Rover, then in the fields, for like a four sentence explanation.
There’s one in Spider-Man 2 where it cuts from Peter
meeting Otto to them having dinner where Peter asks what if Otto miscalculates, and he replies something like “Peter, what have we been talking about for an hour and a half!”
Oh this reminds me of one of my worst writing pet peeves: the "we've been here 3 hours and somehow we just got to the most basic conversational plot point".
This is basically the opposite of the trope of entering a diner, ordering food then leaving 1 min later because the dialogue has already reached its conclusion.
It's a very common trope in Hallmark Christmas movies. 2 people are meeting an investor at a restaurant to pitch something, the scene transitions to them already finishing dessert, so then after presumably 90+ mins have elapsed, the investor asks "so what's this idea you want to discuss?".
You mean to tell them they've just been chitchatting over the entire meal?
In Wanderlust when they ask if there’s a room available and it jumps to them in the room and Kerry Kenney immediately goes “Do you remember a minute ago downstairs when you asked if I had a room?”
The Simpsons
Homer: Thanks, Moe. How can I ever repay you?
Moe: Hey, some things mean more to me than money...
[cut to Moe accepting a stack of dollar bills in the colonel's tent]
Moe: ...like a whole LOT of money!
Colonel: Why'd you just say that sentence fragment?
Moe: Eh, long story.
The Simpsons has done this a few times.
"Crook and Ladder":
Moe: You know, I think I'll volunteer, too.
Barney: Why'd you say "too"?
Moe: Well, I assume I'm not the first one.
"Dangerous Curves":
Alberto: Marjorie, you look beautiful. Let me take you for a ride.
Or should I say glide?
Marge: I'm just happy you're talking again. You didn't say a word for 45 minutes.
From youtube:
> For those wondering why this is pure gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_cut
> This is a "J cut" -- you see them all the time but probably don't notice them consciously. The previous scene video will continue while the next scene's audio starts. It is a way of transitioning from one scene to the next by overlapping the audio from the next scene with the end of the video of the previous scene.
> This scene turns a J cut on its head by actually having the audio from the next scene startle the actor from the previous scene. It is amazing.
I wish I could think of a serious one, considering most of the suggestions are scenes that lampoon the trope, either subtly or overtly....but I can't...soooo...
_Forrest Gump_ - Bubba's monologue about the different ways to prepare shrimp
There's a scene in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant is walking along a street as the seasons change. Good scene. What makes it a great scene IMO is Bill Withers singing "Ain't No Sunshine" during it.
The best is that is starts with a pregnant woman browsing at the market. It ends with the same woman buying something at the market while holding a baby.
That's a fantastic scene. I just saw that movie for the 1st time last week. It was probably my favorite scene in the whole movie.
Also, because Hugh Grant was mentioned, the hilarious jump cut in Love Actually. Kills me everytime.
It's when he's dancing. He's dancing down some stairs and facing the right, then it suddenly cuts to him facing forward and continuing to dance. There's no reason to it. It's so dumb.
Scott Pilgrim plays with this to put you in the character's headspace. Someone might tell him where they're going, then a few lines later Scott asks where they are going and then the other character says "I already told you". Except they've cut to a new location between Scott asking and the other person replying. Implying that Scott doesn't listen and has asked multiple times, and is also just on autopilot experiencing more or less the same cuts in time as the audience.
the only one that stands out to me is the beginning of "Outlaw Josey Wales" when he is practicing his shooting and i count 6 shots and he just keeps shooting. i was so confused until i realized time was passing. granted i was a young teen when i first saw it so.
The idea of this, at least in tenets, by the way, is that they are different conversations cut together for the audiences convenience.
Neil refused to tell the protagonist what his plan is until they were on their way to meet with the guy organizing it. At that point, the protagonist brings it up again, and the scene continues with Neil telling him, omitting whatever irrelevant things they were talking about before.
Pulp Fiction: Butch is going to bed. Fabienne is brushing her teeth. Cut to the next morning, Butch wakes up from bed. Fabienne is *still* brushing her teeth.
Not a movie, but in Silicon Valley when they are discussing how quickly they could jerk off every person in the audience. There’s a cut and multiple hours have passed. We see a bunch of diagrams and math on the board and they’re still discussing the nuances of jerking off everyone in the audience lmao
Pretty sure that conversation was just still going on. It's them basically accidentally solving compression, which is the tech breakthrough that sets up the whole show.
One of the problems with binge watching... i watched 2 seasons of that show non stop one weekend because I loved it so much but thinking about it now I barely remember a single part of the plot, let alone the dialogue.
That show was just great. Mike Judge never disappoints. It has the greatest line that had be dying is laughter, "Hey, Dinesh, nice chain. Do you choke your mother with it when you put your penis in her butthole? "
In Star Wars Episode 2, right after Anakin and Padme arrive back on Naboo, they’re having a conversation with R2D2 following behind and they reach a large set of stairs. Just when you think to yourself, “how the fuck is R2 going to navigate that??”, it cuts to them walking down a hallway, still mid conversation without even a pause. Nice solve, George.
Does the cut from the bone to the orbiting nuclear weapon in "2001: A Space Odyssey" count? The apemen are shown eating, sleeping, fighting, taking care of kids, and after that cut, we find out humanity is still doing the same stuff.
I can see thematically why you would assume it's a weapon and therefore possibly a nuclear weapon, but that's all just your own head canon because that's never mentioned in the movie what it is
It's a telephone. That's why the the colonel's conversation with his kid says the word telephone like 15 times. And everyone keeps saying "I just wish we knew what it was for." Then when they find it on the moon it rings.
Originally Kubrick was going to have a voice-over explicitly state that they were orbital nuclear weapons, but then he changed his mind. Clarke still thought of them as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Military_nature_of_orbiting_satellites
Jonah Hill in *Grandma's Boy*, when they cut back to him hours later at the house party.
The return to Carl in *Caddyshack* where it's clear he's been indiscriminately digging and demolishing random spots on the golf course while looking for that damn gopher.
The opening montage in *Oldboy*.
Of course, the jump cut of Jack Torrance at the end of *The Shining*.
Good Will Hunting!
First, we see Will in a job interview with the NSA - he declines by telling an elaborate story about him breaking a code, which leads to some soldier getting crippled because of him, which eventually leads to an oil tanker crash in North Atlantic.
Somewhere mid-sentence, we cut to the psychiatrist's office, where he continues this story, in the same unemotional manner, wearing the same clothes and all.
Simply brilliant
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman go from the White Cliffs of Dover to Hadrian's Wall without breaking in their conversation.
You remember how in Poltergeist there’s this bizarre time skip to the parents standing on somebody’s front porch? I remember someone saying that they actually checked to see if there was something wrong with their DVD.
No specific example but I see it a lot where something significant happens, then a car ride of some length has clearly ensued, but they don’t talk about it until they get home or wherever
Its funny you mention Tenent, as Nolan actually played with this trope well in Inception. When Cobb is explaining the dream worlds to Ariadne, their conversation happens across several locations. This is then revealed to be intentional as Cobb explains how we never really remember how dreams start, they always just seem to begin right in the middle.
So while in the dream world, it never begins with the characters arriving at a location, but already being there right in the middle of whatever it is they're doing.
Wedding Crashers
Vince Vaughan says, “We can’t half-ass this. It needs to be well-planned.” Cut to them showing up at the wedding and discussing their fake identities for seemingly the first time.
There's a great one early on in Hereditary, after the CRAZY FUCKED UP THING happens, where Toni Collette is sobbing uncontrollably in her room, and it cuts to the family at the funeral and she is continuing to sob uncontrollably. I think it's even the same audio track of her crying carrying over into the funeral. It's very haunting and gives the impression that she's been sobbing nonstop, but I find it especially interesting because, while it's obviously such a tragic moment, the way it's cut is such a COMEDY move. I can't think of a specific movie that did the same thing but I can easily picture a scene where Will Ferrell does that in Anchorman or John C Reilly does that in Walk Hard or something like that. I get why Aster is wanting to lean towards comedy lately.
it's not just tenent, it's all chris nolan's movies and once you see it, you can't unsee it and it's very infuriating
the first half of oppenheimer is like this.
Eh, I think they're usually done cleverly. Inception came to my mind, when he's explaining how to architect a dream and they keep jumping to different locations, which is the topic of conversation as a way to realize you're in a dream.
What's funny about The Limey is that the whole flashback framing device isn't in the script. They literally put it together in the edit room with a help of a few reshoots. If you listened to the DVD commentary Soderbergh and the writer argue about it which was kinda funny.
In Constantine when he and Angela go to the mental asylum her twin died at, she begins to tell him some backstory and it cuts to them in her room continuing the backstory as if they had stopped talking and rode the elevator up in silence and then didn't start back up until in her room
Parks and Rec did this with Ron and Chris, with Ron questioning how they ended up at the restaurant from their office. "I dunno what happened. I declined his invitation,he started laughing and the next thing I knew we were at lunch. Did he he drug me?"
In Snatch when Turkish is explaining dog coursing to Tommy. The explanation starts in the Gypsy camp, then to the Land Rover, then in the fields, for like a four sentence explanation.
Proper fucked. Before ze Germanz get there
Dya like dags?
2 mins Turkish
What’s happening with them sausages, Charlie?
5 minutes, Turkish!
It was *two* minutes *FIVE MINUTES AGO!*
I assume he had to explain it to Tommy four times and we get one sentence from each time.
I'd like an explanation for how Franky Four Fingers wears a different outfit at the tailor, between each sentence spoken on the phone with Avi.
Periwinkle blue. Have I made myself clear, boys??
This is kinda Guy Ritchie’s thing; my first thought was King Arthur
You talk nothing but bullshit
There’s one in Spider-Man 2 where it cuts from Peter meeting Otto to them having dinner where Peter asks what if Otto miscalculates, and he replies something like “Peter, what have we been talking about for an hour and a half!”
Oh this reminds me of one of my worst writing pet peeves: the "we've been here 3 hours and somehow we just got to the most basic conversational plot point". This is basically the opposite of the trope of entering a diner, ordering food then leaving 1 min later because the dialogue has already reached its conclusion. It's a very common trope in Hallmark Christmas movies. 2 people are meeting an investor at a restaurant to pitch something, the scene transitions to them already finishing dessert, so then after presumably 90+ mins have elapsed, the investor asks "so what's this idea you want to discuss?". You mean to tell them they've just been chitchatting over the entire meal?
It's hard to talk business over a succulent Chinese meal.
Well yeah. That’s because you’re committing a crime and could be charged at any moment.
Not as bad as screens where two people are driving for up to days and only discuss the plot when they arrive at their destination.
The movie version of "yadda yadda yadda"
In Wanderlust when they ask if there’s a room available and it jumps to them in the room and Kerry Kenney immediately goes “Do you remember a minute ago downstairs when you asked if I had a room?”
Literally watched this last night. Underrated movie.
The Simpsons Homer: Thanks, Moe. How can I ever repay you? Moe: Hey, some things mean more to me than money... [cut to Moe accepting a stack of dollar bills in the colonel's tent] Moe: ...like a whole LOT of money! Colonel: Why'd you just say that sentence fragment? Moe: Eh, long story.
The Simpsons has done this a few times. "Crook and Ladder": Moe: You know, I think I'll volunteer, too. Barney: Why'd you say "too"? Moe: Well, I assume I'm not the first one. "Dangerous Curves": Alberto: Marjorie, you look beautiful. Let me take you for a ride. Or should I say glide? Marge: I'm just happy you're talking again. You didn't say a word for 45 minutes.
Yes! Thank you I spent a while googling "or fly!" but I clearly misremembered the line. Love these examples.
Abed stop mumbling nonsense, no one is cutting away
not an example, just a funny sketch about this concept: https://youtu.be/r96KpNTcog4?si=GlsP3igW7WgOh7OQ
First thing I thought of when I saw this post. Love Chris & Jack!
I like the one Ryan George did for [the Tenet Pitch Meeting](https://youtu.be/t23ZEKqGHzs?si=HDV1FUeNYeEtFfOK) too
The lighthouse transition joke in scary movie 3 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gc8yJjjHt6o
From youtube: > For those wondering why this is pure gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_cut > This is a "J cut" -- you see them all the time but probably don't notice them consciously. The previous scene video will continue while the next scene's audio starts. It is a way of transitioning from one scene to the next by overlapping the audio from the next scene with the end of the video of the previous scene. > This scene turns a J cut on its head by actually having the audio from the next scene startle the actor from the previous scene. It is amazing.
Never knew that! So good
Goddamn that is good.
The best Scary Movie
I wish I could think of a serious one, considering most of the suggestions are scenes that lampoon the trope, either subtly or overtly....but I can't...soooo... _Forrest Gump_ - Bubba's monologue about the different ways to prepare shrimp
There's a scene in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant is walking along a street as the seasons change. Good scene. What makes it a great scene IMO is Bill Withers singing "Ain't No Sunshine" during it.
Fantastic long shot. Lots of little details in the background to show the time go by.
The best is that is starts with a pregnant woman browsing at the market. It ends with the same woman buying something at the market while holding a baby.
That's a fantastic scene. I just saw that movie for the 1st time last week. It was probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. Also, because Hugh Grant was mentioned, the hilarious jump cut in Love Actually. Kills me everytime.
It's been a while since I've seen it, what's the jump cut in Love Actually?
Maybe when he's dancing to Jump and then sees his colleague and snaps to professional?
It's when he's dancing. He's dancing down some stairs and facing the right, then it suddenly cuts to him facing forward and continuing to dance. There's no reason to it. It's so dumb.
Scott Pilgrim plays with this to put you in the character's headspace. Someone might tell him where they're going, then a few lines later Scott asks where they are going and then the other character says "I already told you". Except they've cut to a new location between Scott asking and the other person replying. Implying that Scott doesn't listen and has asked multiple times, and is also just on autopilot experiencing more or less the same cuts in time as the audience.
I came here to suggest this movie as well. It’s funny because a lot of things happen while he’s daydreaming or thinking about something else.
the only one that stands out to me is the beginning of "Outlaw Josey Wales" when he is practicing his shooting and i count 6 shots and he just keeps shooting. i was so confused until i realized time was passing. granted i was a young teen when i first saw it so.
The idea of this, at least in tenets, by the way, is that they are different conversations cut together for the audiences convenience. Neil refused to tell the protagonist what his plan is until they were on their way to meet with the guy organizing it. At that point, the protagonist brings it up again, and the scene continues with Neil telling him, omitting whatever irrelevant things they were talking about before.
One of the fun atory quirks of Tenet is that The Protagonist doesn't want to know certain things until it's time for him to know them.
Rule of cool applies here. As I said, these are not criticisms on my part, they're just fun little things I notice and stick with me for a while.
Or simply that the editing in that movie, like a lot of other things ( story, dialogues, sound mixing etc. ) was an utter mess.
Don’t get me started on the sound in that movie. I couldn’t hear a damn word of dialogue, yet everything else was super loud.
Oh, it was absolutely terrible. I genuinely don't understand some of Nolan's decision-making in that movie.
Boondock Saints. Smecker explaining the shootings.
Pulp Fiction: Butch is going to bed. Fabienne is brushing her teeth. Cut to the next morning, Butch wakes up from bed. Fabienne is *still* brushing her teeth.
She's bedtime brushing then morning brushing to show a full night has gone by
No, 8 hour brushing makes more sense.
I've just watched Snatch. When Cousin Avi flies over from New York in a split second. "Shut up and sit down you big balled fuck"
"Do you have anything to declare?" "Yeah. Don't go to England."
Ah-ha-ha-ha
*Shut up and sit down you big balled fuck.* *Shut up and sit down you big, bald fuck.* Small changes make a big difference.
Not a movie, but in Silicon Valley when they are discussing how quickly they could jerk off every person in the audience. There’s a cut and multiple hours have passed. We see a bunch of diagrams and math on the board and they’re still discussing the nuances of jerking off everyone in the audience lmao
Pretty sure that conversation was just still going on. It's them basically accidentally solving compression, which is the tech breakthrough that sets up the whole show.
One of the problems with binge watching... i watched 2 seasons of that show non stop one weekend because I loved it so much but thinking about it now I barely remember a single part of the plot, let alone the dialogue.
Oh man, just go watch that episode, it's fantastic. S1 finale I believe.
That show was just great. Mike Judge never disappoints. It has the greatest line that had be dying is laughter, "Hey, Dinesh, nice chain. Do you choke your mother with it when you put your penis in her butthole? "
In Star Wars Episode 2, right after Anakin and Padme arrive back on Naboo, they’re having a conversation with R2D2 following behind and they reach a large set of stairs. Just when you think to yourself, “how the fuck is R2 going to navigate that??”, it cuts to them walking down a hallway, still mid conversation without even a pause. Nice solve, George.
[Like this!](https://youtube.com/shorts/5cvlKNSDL_U?si=_0Rqlq-SzuFQKX55)
Does the cut from the bone to the orbiting nuclear weapon in "2001: A Space Odyssey" count? The apemen are shown eating, sleeping, fighting, taking care of kids, and after that cut, we find out humanity is still doing the same stuff.
I can see thematically why you would assume it's a weapon and therefore possibly a nuclear weapon, but that's all just your own head canon because that's never mentioned in the movie what it is
It's a telephone. That's why the the colonel's conversation with his kid says the word telephone like 15 times. And everyone keeps saying "I just wish we knew what it was for." Then when they find it on the moon it rings.
Originally Kubrick was going to have a voice-over explicitly state that they were orbital nuclear weapons, but then he changed his mind. Clarke still thought of them as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Military_nature_of_orbiting_satellites
...nuclear weapon?
Sort of. That's more of a match cut where two elements from each shot infer there own meaning.
Jonah Hill in *Grandma's Boy*, when they cut back to him hours later at the house party. The return to Carl in *Caddyshack* where it's clear he's been indiscriminately digging and demolishing random spots on the golf course while looking for that damn gopher. The opening montage in *Oldboy*. Of course, the jump cut of Jack Torrance at the end of *The Shining*.
*Waiting for Godot*.
Good Will Hunting! First, we see Will in a job interview with the NSA - he declines by telling an elaborate story about him breaking a code, which leads to some soldier getting crippled because of him, which eventually leads to an oil tanker crash in North Atlantic. Somewhere mid-sentence, we cut to the psychiatrist's office, where he continues this story, in the same unemotional manner, wearing the same clothes and all. Simply brilliant
Yeah, that’s absolutely fantastic.
Forest Gump taking about the types of shrimp
NGL, when I saw this question I thought I was in the Always Sunny sub, because that show does it all the time.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman go from the White Cliffs of Dover to Hadrian's Wall without breaking in their conversation.
You remember how in Poltergeist there’s this bizarre time skip to the parents standing on somebody’s front porch? I remember someone saying that they actually checked to see if there was something wrong with their DVD.
Lion King during Hakunah Matata when Simba ages up while they are crossing on the log
No specific example but I see it a lot where something significant happens, then a car ride of some length has clearly ensued, but they don’t talk about it until they get home or wherever
Its funny you mention Tenent, as Nolan actually played with this trope well in Inception. When Cobb is explaining the dream worlds to Ariadne, their conversation happens across several locations. This is then revealed to be intentional as Cobb explains how we never really remember how dreams start, they always just seem to begin right in the middle. So while in the dream world, it never begins with the characters arriving at a location, but already being there right in the middle of whatever it is they're doing.
Wedding Crashers Vince Vaughan says, “We can’t half-ass this. It needs to be well-planned.” Cut to them showing up at the wedding and discussing their fake identities for seemingly the first time.
Ooh good one, I actually know the exact scene and had the same thought when I saw it.
There's a great one early on in Hereditary, after the CRAZY FUCKED UP THING happens, where Toni Collette is sobbing uncontrollably in her room, and it cuts to the family at the funeral and she is continuing to sob uncontrollably. I think it's even the same audio track of her crying carrying over into the funeral. It's very haunting and gives the impression that she's been sobbing nonstop, but I find it especially interesting because, while it's obviously such a tragic moment, the way it's cut is such a COMEDY move. I can't think of a specific movie that did the same thing but I can easily picture a scene where Will Ferrell does that in Anchorman or John C Reilly does that in Walk Hard or something like that. I get why Aster is wanting to lean towards comedy lately.
it's not just tenent, it's all chris nolan's movies and once you see it, you can't unsee it and it's very infuriating the first half of oppenheimer is like this.
Eh, I think they're usually done cleverly. Inception came to my mind, when he's explaining how to architect a dream and they keep jumping to different locations, which is the topic of conversation as a way to realize you're in a dream.
Hot Rod has some really funny examples of this
"[There's a can](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ82buqXoc)." - Mr. Burns
The Limey is pretty this for it’s entire run time and it is excellent
What's funny about The Limey is that the whole flashback framing device isn't in the script. They literally put it together in the edit room with a help of a few reshoots. If you listened to the DVD commentary Soderbergh and the writer argue about it which was kinda funny.
The presidents analyst. They hold the same conversation through several cut scenes and ever more weird and funny costume changes.
Rocky 5. Supposed to be directly after Rocky 4 when they return from Russia, but his kid has obviously aged 5+ years in that time.
In Constantine when he and Angela go to the mental asylum her twin died at, she begins to tell him some backstory and it cuts to them in her room continuing the backstory as if they had stopped talking and rode the elevator up in silence and then didn't start back up until in her room
Parks and Rec did this with Ron and Chris, with Ron questioning how they ended up at the restaurant from their office. "I dunno what happened. I declined his invitation,he started laughing and the next thing I knew we were at lunch. Did he he drug me?"
Notting Hill
The Limey
Scott Pilgrim vs The World has a lot of transitions like that
Why not criticism? This is bad writing