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{{quote|''The camera is all screwed up. He jumps! He jumps again, from a different angle! What the heck?! [[Did Not Do the Research|Is this some new funky directing style, or what?]]''|'''George Wood''' on the bungee jumping scene from [[
A visual tool of emphasis, in which the same action, line, or brief exchange is shown more than once in immediate repetition. Often, different angles or takes are used. Sometimes called a "stuttercut" or "[[Rule of Three|triple]] take" (not to be confused with [[Double Take]]).
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* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' shows a triple take of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Holland hugging Talho]].
* The beginning of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' shows three different shots from different angles when Honoka and Nagisa first pass each other in the first episode.
* Used in ''[[
** Deliciously parodied in the first episode of ''School Note'', which repeats the crash a dozen times or so, set to dramatic music.
** I just counted. It repeats ''twenty-five times.''
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** Somewhat parodied when Aizawa snaps due to prolonged contact with Misa.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', with Ichigo getting slammed by a lightning bolt through the shoulder by the [[Aloof Big Brother]].
* In the dream episode of ''[[
* ''[[Excel Saga (
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** [[Catch Phrase|"I'm in despair! Overuse of this trope in this anime has left me in despair!"]]
* Played straight and subverted in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', as scenes like Vegeta's first transformation to Super Saiyan get this treatment... but so do some unspectacular punches or kicks (these often get just the same frame/animation repeated rather than a different angle shown).
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. The creation of the titular mecha.
** ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' hammers this trope so far into the ground it shows up in China.
* This is used heavily in ''[[Oniisama
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has used this at times. One that stands out was during the Naruto vs. Haku fight, when a Fox-Demon-Possessed Naruto delivered a massive blow to Haku's head that sent him flying/rolling over 100 feet.
** Another one much later that stands out is {{spoiler|the Raikage putting Sasuke into a ground smashing suplex}} that is shown from three different angles.
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* One of the earliest uses of the technique in an action film appeared in the climactic battle of Akira Kurosawa's ''Zoku Sanshiro Sugata'', with a karate chop nearly missing the main character's face, setting the stage for one of action cinema's most enduring cliches.
* This technique was popularized in contemporary Eastern Cinema by the [[Jackie Chan]] film ''Police Story'' back in 1985, wherein the stunt in which the hero slides down 4 stories of Christmas lights was so impressive that the editor could not bear to throw away ANY of the 3 angles at which it was shot.
* A rare Western feature film example is a moment in ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* In the [[
* ''[[Ong Bak|Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior]]'' uses this for nearly every impressive stunt in the movie, showing the action from different angles and different speeds. Of course, given the damn impressive nature of the stunts, wouldn't you want to show them off as much as possible?
* [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Death Proof]]'' shows the same collision multiple times, each time focusing on exactly how a different victim was mangled to death.
* Used quite blatantly in early Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. The end of his fights could pretty much be summed up as him doing a split when striking, and then showing the strike from twenty different angles.
* Used a few times on Tom Cruise's character in ''[[The Last Samurai]]''. In particular, one fight scene that was completely repeated in its entirety, albeit in black and white.
* In ''[[
* Famously done in ''[[The Shining]]'' with Jack going through the window.
* Used twice toward the end of ''[[Blue Thunder]]'' -- first, to show the explosion of {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Cochrane's]] helicopter}}, and again in the final sequence to show Blue Thunder {{spoiler|being smashed by a train}}. In both cases, the scene was shown from three different angles.
* The Ingmar Bergman film ''Persona'' does this with an entire ''scene'': first, we see a monologue with the camera looking at the speaker, and then we see the exact same monologue again, this time with the camera focusing on who the speaker is talking to. Bonus points: this isn't a simple shot-reverse shot, this is an entire sequence, with each shot being a perfect mirror of the opposite angle for each corresponding shot.
* Used in the introduction of Simba in ''[[The Lion King]]''.
* The [[Oh Crap|breach of the Deeping Wall]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* Used rather effectively towards the end of ''[[Joy Ride]]''.
* In ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'', one character mentions that "Repetition works!" [[Lampshade Hanging|We then see it again from another angle]].
* In ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'', the scene where Lancelot is running up to the castle to save the "damsel in distress" after an arrow hits his squire is played numerous times before he finally makes it to the castle and starts slaying everything in sight.
* In ''Tears of the Black Tiger'', after the hero kills someone using his [[Improbable Aiming Skills]], a text screen comes up: ''"Did you follow that? No? Okay, we'll show it again!"'' Then the action sequence is repeated, in more detail this time.
* In ''[[Commando (
* In [[Terminator 2]]: Judgment Day, when the Cyberdyne building blows up, the camera cuts between four angles of the same row of windows exploding outward.
* The climatic car jump in the original ''Gone In Sixty Seconds''.
* The climax of Brian DePalma's ''[[
* The original version of ''[[
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== Live Action TV ==
* This technique was a common quirk in ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'', although [[Executive Meddling]] led to it being heavily cut down in later seasons.
** It turned up, as a stylistic parody, in the Documentary episode (named ''The Documentary'', oddly enough). Their crimescene videographer's documentary uses the effect, and the characters (watching it) mock it as an amateurish editing mistake.
* [[Reality Show|Reality]] [[Game Show]] ''[[Fear Factor]]'' uses this trick to the point of irritation.
* Often used on the [[Action Series]] to emphasize the power or destruction of a chase, car crash or explosion sequence.
* Since much-reviled producer Bruce Kalish came along, ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has abused this to insane levels, to the point of anything in action scene, particularly [[Stuff Blowing Up]], being shown repeatedly and in extreme slow-mo. Sometimes, explosions occur without a source just to facilitate this (making it all the more ridiculous: at a random point during a fight scene, quite literally ''nothing'' will explode massively four times, slowly, from three or four angles. Oookay...)
* ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' featured one in "Forest of the Dead" when the Doctor realised just why his future self gave River Song the [[Chekhov's Gun|sonic screwdriver]]...
** As well as in "The Waters of Mars" after he has a particularly crushing [[Heel Realization]]
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== Video Games ==
* One of Sylvia's superhero powers in ''[[Viewtiful Joe]] 2'' is Replay, which triples the damage of any attack used while it's in effect. When the hits are shown, it's from three different angles.
* ''[[
** Ditto in ''[[Mega Man X]] 5''. Ironically, the laser blast is [[Luck-Based Mission|almost never a success]].
* Spike's capture of Specter in the original ''Ape Escape''. "Gotcha!" "Gotcha!" "Gotcha!"
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* In [[Dead or Alive]] 3, if you defeat your opponent with a certain type of move, the instant replay will show it again three times.
* The final battle of ''[[Colony Wars]]: Vengeance'' finishes by depicting the enemy's fighter exploding ''from eight different angles.''
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Although, curiously, it wasn’t actually a replay. Bond simply performed the death animation three times while the in-game camera “cut” to three different angles, but any action taking place in the scene was continuous between the three “shots” and not repeated - e.g. a timed mine that was dropped just as the player died would go off in the first shot, the smoke would be clearing in the second shot and nothing would remain in the third shot; or, the enemies that shot Bond would be shown continuing to shoot his body (ouch!) throughout all three shots, while moving position and otherwise behaving as if time was just advancing normally.
* Used whenever a Tyrant dies by means of rocket launcher in ''[[Video Game/Resident Evil 1|Resident Evil 1]]''.
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* In later installments of the ''[[Deception]]'' series, the moment a trap connects will be repeated once; if the trap strikes the killing blow, it's repeated three times.
* Happens whenever a character uses a special technique in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]: Ken's Rage''.
* In ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising
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== Web Original ==
* A gratuitous instance occurs in the ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Perhaps in a reference to the anime example above, in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender
** Another example is the first time the Blue Spirit is shown, although this set of 3 shots is of the zooming in variety.
** Also done from 3 angles is the shot of Zuko's ship being blown up.
** The [[Grand Finale]] had {{spoiler|Avatar State Aang airbending Ozai into a pillar}} shown three times.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* Frequently appears in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', often taking the form of three bars filling the screen one by one.
** This is also the form it takes on ''[[Megas XLR]]'', which also does this a lot.
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* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' Brian and Stewie dive out of a house just before it explodes, and the explosion is -- along with their jump -- shown about thirty times from different angles.
* In ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers: The Movie]]'', this happens when Rodimus Prime opens the Matrix of Leadership.
* In [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'s Big Picture Show, this happens when the Eds escape Eddy's house in a car (flying out the roof), starting a huge chase sequence throughout the cul-de-sac and surrounding area.
* On ''[[
* Used over and over in the first D.Y.N.A.M.O. episode of ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]''.
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