Heroness

I find myself always coming back to this movie when im considering what I want to talk about in my blogs. I think that hero is an amazing movie. Very well done and entertaining. However, I find some of the scenes to be so strange and unrealistic that I end up losing my suture in the movie and ending up laughing at it.

I feel that this is mostly do to the way that the cuts are done. Some of them put the actor into positions that are not congruent with the previous position, essentially they are jump cuts. In a movie that already has a lot of strange happening I think that jump cuts are a bit much.

Montage is an amazingly effective editing technique but when used wrong can cause some very strange effects. I don't think the directors and editors of hero meant for the watcher to get un sutured in the film due to jump cuts but that is what happens with there choice of editing.

That being said a lot of the scenes in Hero do use a lot of good montage. For instance the scene where they are battling over water is a very cool scene that only works because of the way the shots are put together.

Star Wars Episode 4 - George Lucas