Hard Work Montage: Difference between revisions

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One or more characters is shown working hard at a particular task through a sequence of shots meant to imply time passing. This may often incorporate a signature piece of energetic or heroic music.

 

This includes the [[A-Team Montage]], the [[Training Montage]], and any montage in which somebody does a lot of construction, communication, travel, martial arts training, or scouring many books and files.

 

* The rebuilding of the city in ''[[Solty Rei]]''. Unfortunately, [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|it's not safe yet]].

* The chapter "[[Magical Girl]] Yue" in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has this being used while Yue studies to be a mage in the [[Magic World]], complete with [[Exploding Calendar]]. More Knowledge. More Power.

* Combined with [[Lost Love Montage]] in ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'' as the villainess works hard to prove to her lover that she can change.

* The opening of ''[[Primer]]'', and a few other scenes detailing the construction of the box.

* ''[[Swordfish]]'' featured one for ''hacking a bank's computer'', which consisted of the protagonist sitting at a ridiculously pimped-out computer, hammering away at the keyboard and muttering semi-coherently to himself. Somehow it ended up being one of the better scenes.

* Thao making amends for attempting to steal the ''[[Gran Torino]]''

* Appears on ''[[Top Gear]]'' as well, in much the same spirit—usually in the context of something automotive, like prepping for a race or assembling a Caterham 7 kit car. Expect a lot of friendly (?) verbal repartee: the presenters quite like [[Vitriolic Best Buds|taking digs at each other]].

** Ruthlessly parodied in the Bolivian Special, when the presenters pull a deliberate caricature of one of these showing them hacking their way through a rainforest; afterwards, Clarkson realises that he left his cellphone back at the river and walks back to get it. That takes about twenty seconds.

* Quite obviously every single episode of ''[[Reality TV|Trading Spaces]]''.

* Parodied in ''[[Bones]]''. After finding some critical fact, two of the team members comment that Bones will now proceed to stare at the corpse until they talk to her and play Rock Paper Scissors to determine who will baby sit her while she does so.

 

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