Let's consider another archetypal example of intellectual montage, at the end of Apocalypse Now. We cut back and forth from the steer being beheaded to Brando being killed by Martin Sheen. The point is that Col. Kurtz is a sacrificial animal to the American war machine. A + B = C According to Coppola, It is also an homage to the cattle at the abbatoir sequence from Strike mentioned previously.
Intellectual montage is actually a rather heavy handed technique...why do I like it so much then?
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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