Montys Afterword

You know you want to learn how to do it. So watch!

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I love Spout Blog. There I said it. And, I especially love this entry:

Alan at Burbanked answered this challenge by inserting the Chipmunk into a lesson on Lev Kuleshov’s Montage Effect. Kuleshov, a contemporary of Eisenstein, argued that shot order matters because each image in a film is imbued with meaning by the image that comes before it. So suddenly, the chipmunk’s drama makes sense–-”It’s as if that piping hot soup is just outside his reach.”

Read more on Spot blog to find out how this hamster (below) can teach you a valuable Film Theory lesson.

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A special thanks to Andrew Burke for forwarding this video to me today. The benefits of his kindness are two fold: first, it’s funny and second, it saves me from having to write anything lengthy for a blog entry. How’s that for a writer’s strike? Enjoy.

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