Name: Top 10 Most Effective Editing Moments of All Time
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Sometimes the magic in cinema comes not just from incredible shots, but from

bringing two together to yield something more than the sum of their parts.

These are the top ten most memorable editing moments of all time.

Kicking us off at number ten, the beginning of City Of God.

Bursting with energy, the very first shot is [FOREIGN] thrusts us into the rhythm,

the music, and the violence, the underbelly of Rio.

Jump cuts, repeated action, frenetic montage, and

a final bullet time, graphic match wipe sound like a recipe for disaster.

But in City of God, they don't just work, they electrify the screen.

Arthur Penn's fateful finale showed us a death unlike any Hollywood had ever seen.

The pace accelerates to breakneck speed as a shifty Malcolm and

startled flock of birds bring us towards one last glance between mythic lovers,

>> At number eight, Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

they think of a stiff British director, the master of suspense.

But even Hitchcock wasn't above a little double entendre.

And that's exactly what he used to skirt around censorship laws

in what amounts to one giant editorial dick joke,

but Hitchcock's got more to him than visual puns.

which has world class editing all the way through,

we'll be coming back to infer one of the most shocking sequences of all time.

>> Michael Francis Rizzi, do you renounce Satan?

>> Next up at number seven, The Godfather baptism sequence,

one of the most iconic intercut sequences in all of cinema.

Coppola's Godfather climax sees Michael Corleone securing his place of power by

orchestrating a series of gangland killings,

all intercut with his baptismal vow to renounce the powers of evil.

The effect of the juxtaposition is haunting.

we see Michael christened as the new Godfather in the blood of his enemies

whose corpses lie motionless in nomine patri et fili Spiritus Sancti, amen.

At number six, the historic Odessa steps sequence of Battleship Potemkin.

There's hardly a more celebrated achievement in editing than

Exemplifying his theory of montage-esque conflict, the concept of two discrete

shots giving rise to an idea bigger and different than their individual meanings.

Not only is Potemkin pretty much required watching for

but it's been ripped off, paid homage to, and parodied more times then we can count.

Nothing can prepare you for the shock of the shower scene,

the terror of the knife coming at you, the violence, the nudity.

There is no actual threat, not a single stab on screen or

It's all part of the editing that Hitchcock uses to evoke these effects

In 78 cuts over 45 seconds, we only see blood washing down the drain,

beautifully connects with Marion Crane's eye in a Final evocative resolve.

Next up at number four, Un Chien Andalou.

When Luis Brunelle approached Salvador Dali with the story of a cloud slitting

the moon like a knife, Dali told him about his dream of a hand crawling with ants.

Thus became Un Chien Andalou, or The Andalusian Dog, a title that means

just about as much as anything else in the film, which is to say nothing at all.

But just because it lacks rationality doesn't mean it lacks impact.

The eye slitting sequence is shocking to this day.

The graphic match, the dream logic, and the growing dread of the inevitable slice

are created entirely through the strange juxtaposition,

which just goes to show the massive power of editing.

Counting down to number three, the opening of Apocalypse Now.

Francis Ford Coppola's meditative masterpiece on the horror of war and

the human soul begins in striking fashion.

A series of mesmerizing super impositions connects the slow motion

memories of helicopters to a ceiling fan and a disoriented Captain Willard.

There is hardly a better example of the power and

beauty of montage in cinema than this sequence.

The ideas of each shot literally building one on top of the next,

punctuated by the base slices of helicopter blades and

orchestrated by the stern poetry of Jim Morrison.

Next up at number two, the dawn of man cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Spanning millions of years in a single cut, Stanley Kubrick's visual metaphor

works on so many levels, connecting the invention of tools to the advent of space

travel, the flight of a bone to our lift off to the moon.

It is this kind of non-verbal communication that makes editing such

communicating as Eisenstein prescribed through the clash of imagery.

There's hardly a more iconic match cut than this one from Kubrick's masterpiece,