montages

[kid_prufrock]

Is there a better montage* in film than "Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan? If so, please provide an example

Comments

[q10]

1. your definition of ‘montage’ would be my definition of ‘training montage’. the training montage is only one variety of montage. taking montages more generally, the beginning of Up can prettymuch wipe the floor with any training montage.

2. by explicitly mentioning the title of that montage, you made me imagine a re-edited fan-video that sets the whole thing to ‘I can Make You a Man’ from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

η: really, the thing that makes ‘I'll Make a Man out of You’ so excellent is that it draws on more than one montage genre: it's simultaneously a training montage and a many-setbacks montage.

yes exactly

[dukhat]

"training montage" is what kid_prufrock should have said, in my opinion

Re: yes exactly

[q10]

maybe we should be trying to find winners for all the different overused montage categories. i'm interested in seeing nominees for best science montage.

Re: yes exactly

[dukhat]

I want to see the best traveling montage. Most strong contenders will have a line moving across a map that fades in and out.

[ece_drihten]

I liked the scenes in Iron Man, where Tony Stark is building his Mark 2 armor - learning to fly and that. Would you consider that a montage?