Kuleshov Effect: Difference between revisions

{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}

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* Most films from the Soviet era prior to the forced implementation of 'Soviet Realism' in cinema by Stalin. These include venerable classics like ''The Battleship Potemkin'' and ''The Man with a Movie Camera''

* Though modern usage is not exclusively in this manner, it is useful for cases where the "actor" is inanimate. In ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', HAL "displays" a broad range of emotions through being an unreadable red camera lens.

* ''[[Rear Window]]'' extensively uses this trope to spend whole scenes switching back and forth between Jimmy Stewart and what he sees through his window. In one sequence he stares out his window as the focus of the scene switches between several of his neighbors who have very different emotions in their scenarios. His only reaction is to ultimately raise his glass to one of them. Scramble the different window scenes, and the tone changes greatly.

** Stewart actually complained that Hitchcock used the editing of the film in general to create a different performance than the one that was given.

** Darth Vader arguably counts too, for the same reason. Helps if you're voiced by [[James Earl Jones]].

* The infamous shower scene from ''[[Psycho]]'' is often used as an example of this trope. After watching it, everyone immediately understands that Janet Leigh's character has been stabbed to death, but if you slow it down, only three frames actually show a knife piercing human flesh (this is fast enough to count as subliminal messaging). The audience's understanding of what has taken place comes entirely from the way the images and sound are arranged, not from the actual content.

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