Intercut
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An alternating sequence of this kind.
"Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street."
- 1 To intersect. transitive
- 2 To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
"The film's plot revolves around Robert Adams […] whose older lover […] is in prison. He knows that he cannot send the love letters he wants to, so he writes and keeps them in a journal. Most of the film features voice-overs of his writing intercut with the memories of their life together."
Example
More examples"There were titles intercut with the action, abstract designs, special effects and psychedelia."
Etymology
From inter- + cut.
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