intercut
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
intercut (third-person singular simple present intercuts, present participle intercutting, simple past and past participle intercut)
- (transitive) To intersect.
- (cinematography) To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
- 1987 August 22, Michael Bronski, “Real To Reel”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 8:
- 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 intercut with the memories of their life together.
Noun edit
intercut (plural intercuts)
- (cinematography) An alternating sequence of this kind.
- 2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:
- 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 dusty street.