This is a great youtube channel that's full of practical information.

Match cuts have to be thought out in the production, Achieving seamless matches requires meticulous planning during shooting. Sound transitions also matter a lot while maintaining narrative flow. The best one is Jurassic Park match cut.

Match cutting is considered one of the most difficult video editing techniques, because finding a pair of shots that match can take days, if not weeks. Then executing it seamlessly without the audience noticing it is real skillful mastery of the craft.

A fact, Netflix has a MatchCutting tool. They are always finding collaboration opportunities and hiring great machine learning engineers for building out the tools in editing. Their trailers and Stranger things series has extensive use of this.

https://i.redd.it/srdsn6kzkldf1.gif

A promo was made using a series of action mat cuts from Extraction, Red Notice, Sandman, Glow, Arcane, Sea Beast, and Royalteen.

For more Editing Basics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KannadaMovies/wiki/editing101/

Excellent post bro

Oh yeah the Game of Thrones one was memorable!

One of the Saw movies has many great smash cuts. I can't find an example on YouTube but I remember one guy being thrown through a window wall then the camera pans and the window is linked to an office and a guy walk through the door to give papers to someone else.

Smash cut

Exorcist 3

“Father Dyer’s middle name was Kevin.”

“Kevinn.”

In addition to the technical side which was not easy at the time, it’s the symbolism. Lawrence has just snuffed the match with the iconic “the trick is not minding that it hurts” line. The match is out; the sun appears, and for the rest of the movie we’re going to see Lawrence demonstrate that even scaled up from a single match indoors to relentless sun in the desert, he does not mind that it hurts.

It’s great visually and symbolically and progresses the movie to greater scale.

Lots of reasons why it's good.

It's a kind of delayed match cut: the flame is blown out, then there's moments of suspense, then finally the sun rises.

There's also the way Lawrence seems to control the cut, which speaks to his attitude about going to the desert.  

Lawrence of Arabia was shot in Superpanavision 70 in 1962. The first film shot in that format was in 1959. Scope or ultra wide formats had only really been in use since 1953, so having such a vast aspect ratio was massively impactful to audiences who were still getting used to so much screen real estate taking up their peripheral vision. It’s the era when movie-films became cinema. When you add to that the sound design, the thematic significance in the story, the masterful cinematography, then you might come to realise it’s one of those watershed moments in cinema history where the material justifies the format and made the format more than a gimmick, right up there with Dorothy leaving Kansas and stepping out into a world of colour. We take huge formats for granted now, but back then cinemas were pokey little family run joints filled with cigarette smoke, and the spectacle must’ve been revelatory.

tl;dr: it was a different time

The line is an early indication that he is not like other Englishmen, and when he refuses to drink until his guide does, he progresses along his personal journey. The quenching of the match foretells his foreshortened life, which the film has already shown, and drops us into the action of the cruel yet purifying sun.

for me it's just evocative, it says a lot purely in the language of film. the lines he speaks before blowing out the match are setting up his character, his point of view. it's also an extreme transition that immediately conveys the brutality of the sun and the qualities of the desert where the action will take place. first we see the fire of a lit match: it's hot, it hurts to touch, but Lawrence cavalierly suggests you simply accept the pain and conquer it. cut immediately to the empty desert sunrise. we still might be taking in what Lawrence just said and did, but the abruptness of the cut immediately undermines his confidence and suggests arrogance, hubris. the sun is the same thing in quality as the lit match - fire - but on a scale that is overwhelmingly massive. is this a pain Lawrence can "not mind"? we go from the controlled, rather comfortable domesticity of a British garrison, with its abundant creature comforts, to the stark, harsh reality of the desert, a place with nowhere to hide - we the audience cannot run or hide from the sun as it rises into view. we are introduced to some of the stakes involved: man vs nature, which is a classic setting for storytelling. i could go on!

Indoor scene cuts directly to a majestic and very large screen sunrise. It's one cut that explains a lot emotionally to the audience instantly

This is like debating whether the eyebrows on the Mona Lisa are slightly uneven.

More importantly, why does the bone's rotation change?

I think the oft-used claim this is a match cut misses the point; it's a 3 shot sequence: 1) Bone goes up, 2) Bone starts to come down and 3) Spaceship! From an editing point of view I feel the reasoning is to catch viewers' attention as the Wikipedia entry about the Rule-of-3 states: "setting up a pattern of two items and then subverting viewer expectations by breaking that pattern with the third item."

It isn't though.

I love it so much. but I agree that visually it felt slightly off

Thanks for the help everyone...looks like I'm putting the popcorn on later this evening 🫡

I may have it, send me a DM.

My dumb ass was kind of hoping this would be about the movie The Cutting Edge lol. That's fine, I'll see my enemies to lovers figure skating movie loving self out :P

(no shade to the actual documentary tho)

Excellent! makes me want to be more daring with music production - creative editing can suggest so much.

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Armageddon or most Michael Bay movies.

Across the Spiderverse.

Sin City

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Run Lola Run (1998)

Someone recently posted a clip elsewhere from Halle Barry's Catwoman - the basketball scene - which had an amazing, preposterous number of cuts.

Bourne trilogy

The trick is to make the matchstick wet at the bottom so that it goes out before it burns your fingers

“What’s the trick?”

“The trick is not minding that it hurts.”

Try it...yes it shows the person is crazy can withstand pain.

A film people don’t often talk about that clearly inspired some shots in it: Ophuls’ “Caught”

Might not be exactly what you're looking for but this video by fandor is the first thing that comes to my mind

It’s the side by side one right? With a pool sequence of two men singing Slow boat to china? Been looking for this forever and can’t find it either

https://youtu.be/hWx1rLr9Ii8?si=SjCY4QaMVtlxaGUC

It's probably this. I made it. 

I bet its this. skip to the section about The Master, he shows scenes from a John Huston doc about WWII vets side by side with scenes of the movie

https://youtu.be/A_Y_xtIslpk?si=HFnMtYG3Xjj8GlYz