{"id":1710,"date":"2017-07-21T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/07\/21\/watch-requiem-for-a-dream-shows-how-audacious-editing-can-drive-a-story\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T15:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:18:18","slug":"watch-requiem-for-a-dream-shows-how-audacious-editing-can-drive-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/07\/21\/watch-requiem-for-a-dream-shows-how-audacious-editing-can-drive-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: ‘Requiem for a Dream’ Shows How Audacious Editing Can Drive a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFilm editors usually take pains to make their work unobtrusive, but Requiem for a Dream’<\/em>s cutting style breaks the rules for a good reason.
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\nRequiem for a Dream<\/em>, Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby’s Jr. novel, is a film so unrelentingly grim that, though it is widely admired, I don’t know many people who’ve sat through it more than once. The film captures the momentum of addiction in a cinematic way, through color, angle, and, more than anything, a cutting style that depicts the sensations of momentum, the subjective grip of addiction so<\/em> vividly that it instantly became iconic (Last year, we wrote about a parody video that shoehorned the manic cutting onto other classic films.) \n<\/p>\n


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\nThe typical 90-minute film averages between 600 to 700 cuts, whereas Requiem <\/em>contains roughly 2,000 discreet edits. \n<\/p>\n


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\nIn this essay, Mr Nerdista shows how Requiem’<\/em>s editing is its “beating heart,” the key to its ferocity, and the reason that it’s still difficult to watch. \n<\/p>\n


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Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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