MATCH CUTS

MATCH CUTS

a cut in film editing from one scene to another in which the two camera shots compositional elements match graphically, helping to establish a strong continuity of action- and linking two ideas with a metaphor.

Famous examples
Stanley Kubrik's 2001: Space Odyssey
A bone that an ape is holding with a space craft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMPlIQAz5E&feature=related
(5:18 part 2/13)

David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence lighting a match with a sunrise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypul7nPcMII
(1:14)
Editor Ann V. Coates- British film editor with a career spanning over 40 years (amazing because during her time editing technology drastically changed). Noted for editing: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, The Elephant Man, In the Line of Fire, and Out of Sight.
dir. David Lean credits inspiration for that edit to French New Wave movement! First real presence of a director!

Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
Cary Grant pulls Eva Marie Saint up from Mount Rushmore, cuts to him pulling her up to his bunk on a train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-4Nwght0&playnext=1&list=PL2F6DE162088...