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{{quote|'''AVC:''' In the film your character goes from being a spectacular failure to a huge success more or less over the course of a montage sequence.
'''Simon Pegg:''' God bless the montage. [Laughs.]|[http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/simon_pegg The AV Club] interview.}}
|[http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/simon_pegg The AV Club] interview.}}
 
A montage (literally "putting together") is a form consisting of a series of short shots which are edited into a coherent sequence. Or at least coherence was intended.
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See: [[:Category:Montages]] for sub-tropes.
 
{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
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* Both ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' use musical montages all the time, usually with licensed songs.
* ''[[Archer]]'': Danger Island - in episode 7, montage is referred to by name, as is [[Genius Bonus|the Soviet theorist and film maker who come up with the idea]]; it is explained that [[Lampshaded the Obscure Reference|the concept cannot be translated as the native peoples lack filmic context]], and then the montage [[Subverted|never appears]].
 
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[[Category:Narrative Devices]]