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intercut

,intә(:)'kʌt4 senses · 631 ms
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verb
  1. 1

    To intersect.transitive

  2. 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 i
noun
  1. 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 dust

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