Why Do Cuts Work?

Well, the fact is that Apocalypse Now, as well as every other theatrical film is made up of many different pieces of film joined together into a mosaic of images

Many different pieces of film joined together into a mosaic of images

The film is being “cut”...

Twenty-four times a second

Each frame is a...

Displacement from the previous one

When the visual displacement is great enough (as at the moment of the cut), we are forced to...

Re-evaluate the new image in a different context

If we could make films only by assembling all the elements simultaneously, as in the theater, the range of possible subjects would be...

Comparatively narrow

The longer the take, of course, the greater the...

Chances of a mistake