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Best Movie Montage

Amor Pulchritudo
09-03-2008, 09:44
What's you're favourite movie montage?

Mine has to be the Oddessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec
Cannot think of a name
09-03-2008, 09:47
Hard to argue with the father of the montage. Don't know where to go from there.
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
09-03-2008, 10:04
I'm a Fritz Lang freak, myself, so that's the first place I leapt to when I thought of great montage.

YouTube didn't have the few the popped into my mind, but these display some of his genius just the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-qS1OjBdG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYjD4cR8LE

from Metropolis, and M, the opening scenes of those two films - I still get chills. :)
Amor Pulchritudo
09-03-2008, 10:16
Hard to argue with the father of the montage. Don't know where to go from there.

:fluffle:
Tongass
09-03-2008, 10:35
montage with eponymous song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xBSfY01nMk
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
09-03-2008, 10:56
montage with eponymous song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xBSfY01nMk

Aha! I forgot that they re-used that one for the movie, or I would've done a search. Excellent. :p
Rhursbourg
09-03-2008, 11:53
Count Orlok as he climbs the stairs or when the Phantom removes his Mask in the 1928 Version of Phantom of the Opera
Cannot think of a name
09-03-2008, 12:11
Count Orlok as he climbs the stairs or when the Phantom removes his Mask in the 1928 Version of Phantom of the Opera

Thats a sequence or a shot rather than a montage, really.
Cannot think of a name
09-03-2008, 12:29
:fluffle:

Just to reafirm my film nerdness I still have to put up something, so I'll make it a tie between The Man With the Movie Camera (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AInQ1x5_r3o&feature=related) or if you're up for something really up its own ass, Society of the Spectacle (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1093015329005250044&q=society+of+the+spectacle&total=161&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7), a nonsensical montage of disassociated footage to a complex art theory read in French. If you actually know French you're better off because then you can watch it without the paragraph long subtitles full of academia. Usually I favor subtitles over dubbing, but really, it's just a dude reading a treatise over disassociated images. I think we could have got away with it this time. Or, I guess, I could make a serious effort to learn French...

Or, if you're looking for a little more awesome in your post-Dadaist film theory, try Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEz5rye_U4&feature=related), a kung fu movie that is redubed to be a treatise on art and society. Awesome.
Xenophobialand
10-03-2008, 02:32
Really, can you possibly get better than the epitome of a montage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavFoyYJwPQ)?
Yootopia
10-03-2008, 02:33
Rocky IV's montage. Upside-down sit-ups! Hell yeah!
Thumbless Pete Crabbe
10-03-2008, 03:11
Or, if you're looking for a little more awesome in your post-Dadaist film theory, try Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lEz5rye_U4&feature=related), a kung fu movie that is redubed to be a treatise on art and society. Awesome.

That's a new one on me - very interesting.
The Parkus Empire
10-03-2008, 03:47
The one in Groundhog Day.
Copiosa Scotia
10-03-2008, 05:05
Since I was beaten to the punch on Team America, I'll throw out the opening montage from the Dawn of the Dead remake. Not nearly the best of course, but I like it.