Favorite Scene Transitions

Batutta

Batutta

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Brotherhood of the Wolf came up in conversation the other day and I remembered one of my favorite film transitions, when an overhead panning shot of Monica Belluci's mountainous breasts dissolves into an aerial shot of actual mountains.

Another one that always stuck with me is from Highlander, a crane up on a fishtank, and as the surface of the water is being broken, it transitions to the characters on a boat in a lake.
 
"Life is Beautiful" - When Roberto and Nicoletta walk into the atrium on their first date. They slowly walk in and then a few moments later, years have passed, and their son runs out. Technically not an impressive transition, but it was a great way to show a progression of time.
 
There's this amazing transition in In Cold Blood that transitions between Robert Blake's abusive childhood and the current time when he's drinking in a bar. It's so seamless and flows beautifully. It's really difficult to use flashback without it disrupting the flow of a film and how it was done in this film blended different environments and time periods perfectly.
 
The checkerboard wipe in Revenge of the Sith. :evil:

OK, seriously I've always loved the transitions between reality and imagination in Scorsese's King of Comedy. Maybe that's cheating, because it's just straight cuts, but the way Scorsese chose to blend the two worlds by having them be so straight forward always makes me shake my head in awe.
 
Isaac_Brody said:
One of those great transitions in film, the Lawrence of Arabia lit match to desert cut.
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One of the greats...2001 also has the great cut from the flying bone to the space station, showing millions of years of evolution in a split second.

Although it's not technically a scene transition, a shot transition I always loved and first recognized in Jaws, is when Brody is on the beach watching the water, and the people passing in from of him creates a wipe from one shot to the next. Spielberg does it several times in that scene.

And if we're going low brow, in Me, Myself and Irene, when Jim Carrey squats to take a dump on his neighbor's lawn, and it cuts to a stream of chocolate frozen yogurt oozing out of the dispenser. For a few seconds, you think you're actually seeing the deed, but you're not. Only thing I liked about that film.
 
Not the best but the funniest. Me, Myself, and Irene when Carey goes to take a dump on the lawn and they cut to chocalate ice cream coming out of an ice cream machine. :)
 
Batutta, didn't read your post but that is the first thing I thought about when I opened this thread. :)
 
Batutta said:
And if we're going low brow, in Me, Myself and Irene, when Jim Carrey squats to take a dump on his neighbor's lawn, and it cuts to a stream of chocolate frozen yogurt oozing out of the dispenser. For a few seconds, you think you're actually seeing the deed, but you're not. Only thing I liked about that film.
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Really?

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i thought me myself and irene was probli one of the bros top film. its funny and crude. I dunno something about it.
 
Has anybody seen a Joe Montagne & Sam Rockwell film called "Jerry & Tom"? Directed by Saul Rubinek

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jerry_and_tom/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120867/

I saw it a couple times on showtime in 1999 and the scene transitions were what amazed me the most. They had multiple seamless shots where a crane shot matched with another crane shot and took you from summer season to winter snow. It was just the first time I saw the technique used & really complemented the tone of the movie. It got me thinking about moviemaking, as did Slingblade & the Limey.
 
My favorite scene transition is the one in that one movie where a scene fades to black, then it fades back up and it's another scene. Genius.
 
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