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Oftentimes, a director or writer will have a scene in mind, say a dialog, or a big event, where there's two or more important points he wants to get across at the same time, but unfortunately, are happening in two different places, or at such an angle that you can't get both at once. One solution is to just alternate between showing the two, while another is simply to use a
This way, you have your cake and eat it too: You can have your explosion and the reactions to it all in one shot, or you can see both sides of a [[Split-Screen Phone Call|telephone conversation.]] Alternatively, you can use it to show only loosely related events that happen to be going on at the same time, such as in 24 or the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' example below.
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It's also [[Seen It a Million Times|a very common device]] in multiplayer console video games, particularly first or third person shooters, allowing each player to get their own view. ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' on the Nintendo64 was one of the earlier and most successful implementations of this in a genre which, up to then, had relied mostly on linked systems for multiplayer.
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* What episode of ''[[Pokémon]]'' ''doesn't'' have this?
** They even have a dedicated sound effect for this.
* In one of the earlier episodes of ''[[Lucky Star]]'', they show a day in the life of the twins on
* Often used in ''[[Tamayura]]'' to show the actions that the [[Four-Girl Ensemble|Fuu, Kaoru, Norie and Maon]] do simultaneously together. Usually it's [[Food Porn|them eating and their reactions to food]], but once it was them drawing faces on their [[Teru Teru Bozu]] dolls.
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** Then it used horizontal split-screen to show in one frame the male lead peacefully sleeping, and in another frame, the female lead tossing and turning with frustration. The [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|implications]] of Paul Newman being on the top (of the shot) have got to be purely intentional.
* Used throughout the film ''Conversations with Other Women''. One part of the screen usually shows the female lead, and the other the male lead (and sometimes other characters); the split screen is also sometimes used to show different periods. {{spoiler|Only the last shot doesn't make use of a split screen, showing the two main characters together...even though we've been showed that they were apart.}} It's all very well-done though, and not gimmicky.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Airplane!]] 2: The Sequel''. When President Reagan is talking to the Commissioner, he says to go
* Director [[Brian De Palma]] uses split screens in many of his movies( ''[[Sisters]]'', ''[[Carrie]]'', ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]''.)
* Used extensively in the documentary about ''[[Woodstock]]''.
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* ''[[Spooks]]'' and ''[[24]]'' both had this effect as a signature of their styles.
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' has started using those for lab sequences.
* ''[[Coupling]]'' and ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' have both had episodes using
* [[Sanctuary]] uses this quite frequently to compress sequences instead of using a [[Montage]]. The split-screen method is somewhat similar to that used in Ang Lee's ''[[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]]'' (mentioned above), which gives these sequences a (possibly unintentional) comic book vibe.
* It was a recurring element in ''[[That '70s Show]]''.
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* Cartoons often subvert this, especially the phone call variant, by having a character reach across the divide.
* ''[[South Park]]'' did this in "Spookyfish", deliberately showing the split screen line between Cartman and Evil Cartman.
* ''[[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin Yang Yo]]'' tends to
* Split screen is used in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Identity Crisis" where Danny, having split
* ''The [[Kung Fu Panda]] Holiday Special'' has a sequence where Po and his father are working in the kitchen for the holidays where the screen is progressively diced into smaller squares like a vegetable until it seemingly swept into the pot.
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