Time Compression Montage: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Jamie''': We've filled 2 pontoons, it goes about 3 minutes a fill, we've got 48 yet to go.

'''Narrator''': Thanks for the warning, we might go to the time lapse here.

Also called American Montage. One that shows the passing of a long period of time summed up into a handful of key shots.

[[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do with]] [[Time Crash|the literal distortion of time]] [[Final Fantasy VIII|plotted by Sorceress Ultimecia.]] If so, the trope would have been called "Time [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Kompression]] Montage" anyways.

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* Used in [[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]], in order to speed up the search for the rest of [[The Muppet Show]] cast. And by 'used', we mean it's intentionally invoked by the characters in-universe.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'s'' third season opens with a particularly dark Time Compression montage which compresses 3 months of Cylon occupation, including the loss of Tigh's eye.

* The final five minutes of ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' provide quite possibly the best Time Compression montage ever.