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  Inception 2010

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  Another scene I could use for my essay is the opening sequence of the film, where Dom Cobb infiltrates a dream in order to steal information. In this scene there is a dream within a dream and there is cross-cutting to alternate between the two dreams. Particularly the cross-cutting that happens around the "kick" in order to wake Dom up helps the audience to how the two dreams affect each other.

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  Inception 2010

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  I'm not sure what the specific time is in the movie, because I found the scene on youtube, but this scene is the climax of the movie, when all of the layers of dream begin to collapse and the characters wake up between the different dreams. This complex style of editing is heavily dependent on cross-cutting which was made possible by DW Griffith's Lonedale Operator in 1911. The Lonedale Operator created cross-cutting as a stylistic innovation, but it opened up the door for films such as Inception that rely on cross-cutting for the plot of jumping back and forth between dreams and reality.

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  Breathless 1960

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  In Breathless, Godard has a unique style of editing where the takes will go back and forth between a quick series of short takes with jump-cuts and very long takes. This is demonstrated in the almost 30-minute long scene between Michel and Patricia. This is very unconventional at the time and even now is pretty uncommon. Godard also helped popularized jump-cutting.

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  Battleship Potemkin 1925

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  In the Odessa steps sequence of Battleship Potemkin, there are many shots that at first glance seem unconnected. These shots are placed side-by-side. It seems that they are used to create tension and uncertainty. The sequence cuts between different people including, two women, a man without legs, kids, etc. The shots are also from different angles (there is a crowd shot in front, then a crowd shot from behind).

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