6th April 2011, 11:43 PM
This is basically my attempt to gather a list of all the cliche montages we can think of. Most of them are going to come out of the 1980's...
Let's see... There's the classic "training montage" just like in Karate Kid and Rocky.
Who can forget the "starting a business in a broken down warehouse" montage as in Ghostbusters or Short Circuit 2?
There's the "cramming for the big test" montage, usually done in the later half of a frat house movie after the "partying and driving the dean nuts" montage.
The 90's had some montages it made all it's own though. Just about every teen movie had the "waking up and getting ready for the day" montage as the opening credits. There was also the "let's try to get rid of the new person we can't stand with a bunch of pranks" montage, and it's close cousin, the "we keep trying to prank this new guy but it keeps backfiring on us" montage.
Ah the 2000's... 2000's will go down as the decade of "gritty and super dark", but I can name at least one montage that belongs right there. You know the "shadowy guy preparing something really bad" montage, usually done with a lot of jump cuts to clattering metal things shortly before jump cutting to some drowsy person waking up somewhere bad. There's also the "putting together a bomb" montage.
Let's see... There's the classic "training montage" just like in Karate Kid and Rocky.
Who can forget the "starting a business in a broken down warehouse" montage as in Ghostbusters or Short Circuit 2?
There's the "cramming for the big test" montage, usually done in the later half of a frat house movie after the "partying and driving the dean nuts" montage.
The 90's had some montages it made all it's own though. Just about every teen movie had the "waking up and getting ready for the day" montage as the opening credits. There was also the "let's try to get rid of the new person we can't stand with a bunch of pranks" montage, and it's close cousin, the "we keep trying to prank this new guy but it keeps backfiring on us" montage.
Ah the 2000's... 2000's will go down as the decade of "gritty and super dark", but I can name at least one montage that belongs right there. You know the "shadowy guy preparing something really bad" montage, usually done with a lot of jump cuts to clattering metal things shortly before jump cutting to some drowsy person waking up somewhere bad. There's also the "putting together a bomb" montage.
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