Top 10 Best Montages of All Time
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- It’s parts of a whole, it’s flashes of brilliance, it’s fracturing space, time, reality, and narrative for the sake of the abstract. It’s a montage, and we’re bringing you our top 10 in movie history! Subscribe: goo.gl/9AGRm
What did you think of the list? Do you disagree with any of our picks? Feel like we left out or mis-represented any of the scenes? What do you think are the best movie montages? What makes them so great?
What other topics would you like to see us cover in future editions of CineFix Movie Lists?
Let us know in the comments!
THE LIST
Up - Married Life
This sweet look at Carl and Ellie’s married life pulls at our heartstrings and makes us understand and support Carl even though he seems to have forgotten what it means to be happy.
Rushmore - Yearbook
Wes Anderson is able to tell us everything we need to know about Max with a perfect mix of childishness and seriousness.
Rocky IV - Training
The way the months of training are compressed into a few brilliant minutes and the way it displays the contrasting training methods of Rocky and Drago make this the obvious choice.
Donnie Darko - Mad World Timeline Collapse
Somehow able to make something so WTF fill us with emotion and make us understand how tragic it all is.
Cinema Paradiso - Kissing
It’s a meta analysis of the power of cinema, romancing us as it examines romance.
Citizen Kane - Breakfast Table
In a few brief moments we are told the story of a beautiful love turned cold over the course of years.
The 25th Hour - F*&K YOU
Spike Lee shows us the honesty of a deeply racist character in post 9-11 New York.
I Wish - Poetry in the Details
A look at the beauty of the little things we usually just pass by in our daily life.
American Beauty - Dying Moments
It perfectly alternates between the beauty of a life in retrospect and the pain of those left behind in a mix of calm and chaos.
The Godfather - Baptism
Birth in Christ vs death without him showing us Michael’s bad faith pledge on his soul to underline how his character has changed.
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The montage from 'Up' hits me right in the feels
+BluCheeseStudios the moment I watch this video and that came up, I was like "please don't do this to me again" :))
+BluCheeseStudios The Cinema Paradiso's also done this work. Broke my heart as well..in a good way.
+BluCheeseStudios I saw Up just a few months after my fiancee died. That montage hit me hard on multiple levels.
Just A Dude sorry to hear that,man..i can only imagine what that feels like.
+BluCheeseStudios The mere mention of it started the feels boiling up
I love how the Godfather's baptism montage alternates between Michael becoming a Godfather with the baptism of his godchild and symbolizing becoming THE Godfather with the cross section clips of the gang violence murders. Flawless.
I know right, my favorite part of it is when he says "'Do you renounce Satan?'" and he says "'I do renounce him'" as it switches to Clemenza shooting with the shotgun, oh flawless indeed.
Hector Salamanca I know! the vo said "the baptism itself has no purpose.. " and I was like "are you kidding me???? he's baptising himself in actual blood!" so much for film study o.O
I saw ur comment in some Breaking Bad video
@Hector Salamanca Sir, you chose the perfect film. After all these years, the perfection of that editing brings tears of
viewing the medium at it's zenith!
May I add one more wee bit of editing genius that, for me, is arguably the finest just over 1 second of quick cuts in the history of film.
I am speaking of the Don and his son Sonny and his two Capos and of course his Consigliere Tom,meeting with Virgil (The Turk) Sollozzo.
When Sonny shows there's a weak point to be exploited, that 2 second historic bit of quick cut editing conveyed what a page of writing would usually require.
I beg your pardon as I know the subject is montage rather than editing or camera shots but I can't resist: When Michael pops up quietly with, "We can't wait." And as he speaks that famous monologue the camera CREEPS so that we finally see Michael, suddenly with the bearing of a Don, filling the frame.
These videos are just... So good.
+Victor Dalloz Agreed, i've been in campaing against their sloppy tops for... 6 or 7 months now? To no avail, but it does let me vent my frustration.
But I don't think they can make something as good as this; I mean, can you imagine them doing a top 10 cinema movements of all time?
Or something as well constructed as this?
I just wish they made a better research on their tops, and made them more content and less cuts.
Anyway, I ranted too much. LLAP.
+Victor Dalloz Well, you can't really blame them since it's the viewers that vote for the dumb ass lists they create.
+Victor Dalloz They sacrificed quality for quantity
Michael Matt
Not exactly, what they did is lower the quality in favor of lower production times/costs; Making several cuts in a single video makes easier for the voice talent to do their job, One phrase will take 2 or 3 tries at most, making the job easier for them, and in turn lowering the production costs. IF they cared about cuantity alone, they would have kept (sorry if the construction is wrong) releasing 5 to 6 videos per day.
I feel smarter every time I watch them.
I really love the montage of Sebastian and Mia's possible life together at the end of La La Land. It creates this essence of everything that could be and then rips it away. It's such a beautiful scene.
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That´s one hell of a montage.
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And Rohan will answer
The Requiem for a Dream montage freaks me out every time.
My favorite montage is from The Room when Johnny and Mark are running together and toss a football around as they talk about things. The genius in this scene is that the conversation we hear isn't clear leaving up to interpretation but the music does give us the sense that even though they have dark secrets they're both acting happy despite what's hidden under the surface.
To this very day, i can't see the "Kiss Montage" of Cinema Paradiso without tearing up. What a fantastic movie.
Rocky IV, that is your pick. For me, nothing in the Rocky films touches the training montage of the first film. The tranquility of the early morning run, the struggle and then the triumph on top of the steps in front of no one. Beautiful.
Married Life could have been a Pixar Short and it still would have been great to watch.
I agree with number one. One of the best scenes of all time and has been replicated many times.
the montage "the streak" from Moneyball always gives me goosebumps
You should have done a growing up Montage. Where the character matures and grows yet because of the Montage we still know who they are.
+Vance Corsey ....up?
+Vance Corsey Lion king
Wasn't that #5
essentially?
They don't do a list for best categories, they did a list for best montages and for each pick they see the category that it fits in.
These lists are probably the most well-considered lists on all of UA-cam. I absolutely love all the shoutouts and contextualizations when so many other films are mentioned besides the actual pick. It's brilliant. You guys really set the bar so high!
I remember bawling like a baby when the kissing montage began in "Cinema Paradiso" Wonderful movie.
Cineflix, you goes do such an amazing job at creating wholly original top 10's. By spreading out types of topics over each 10 spots, it keeps the list from being predictable and mundane like so many other list sites with the same motive. And exposing what thesis for each spot in completely brilliant. Keep doing what ur doing. Cheers...
The Man From Snowy River's mission prep scene. The quick close-ups and sound of tack and blacksmithing and horses with the drone of a cello. It's one of the best precursor montages.
You're a writer. You're told, in an animated format, to write a montage of the entirety of a life from marriage to grave. Show that they're madly in love. Show that the woman is outgoing and fun, while the man is stodgy and isolated. Depict that the daily grind of life is constantly getting in the way of their much more exotic dreams. Along the way, show the excitement of a child, only to lose that child. Then, show the woman dying, leaving the man completely alone. Make it absolutely heartbreaking. Oh, and do it without a single spoken word of dialogue.
Yeah, Up should probably be #1. An unreal amount of information and feeling compacted into a few minutes.
I totally agree, a marvelous montage indeed.
Yes. (And actually it starts way before marriage --- the whole story of the two.)
not even an honorable mention for any of Edgar Wright's brilliant visual comedy montage? cool cool
+sahalanimation i know right?! his montages are beautiful and deliver a completely unique effect that wasn't even listed. damn shame
Olive Oil
seeing that they put a lot of "cool black and white movie" in almost every list they make, I guess Edgar Wright's stuff is "not on their level" or some shit..ah well
I don't think they count, if you mean the sequences with the quick cuts
They last for a couple of seconds, and it doesn't convey that big a message
crawlingninjabear
technically it's still a montage, and it does plays a relatively important part of the story telling. especially the one in Hot Fuzz.
+crawlingninjabear But they do mention the drug montages from Requiem for a Dream, that also only last a few seconds.
One of THE BEST channels on UA-cam, can't praise you guys enough. These are the most carefully made lists on the Internet, and you can just tell that you guys are plain and simple movie lovers, not snobs.
Rocky IV.... you guys rock. It's nice that you guys don't equate mainstream to bad. You stay true to yourselves, which is awesome.
The opening montage of Up far surpasses everything else that movie had to offer. Not to say the movie was bad, either.
This might be the best and most useful top 10 about cinema on UA-cam right now. BRILLIANT WORK!
The real king of montages is Terrance Malick. Heck every film is almost a series of beautiful montages.
Good point - The Thin Red Line.
Mojo can't produce this level of quality , awesome job . & bring back Film School'd
Donnie Darko. Fuck yeah.
I really enjoy 500 days of Summer's
Expectation VS Reality
does that count?
***** oh ok cool thanks. Sorry not an expert on cinematography haha just love the scene
+Peter Hutt-Sierra what is a montage. i thought it was same as editing...
+hobidolap a Montage is where linear editing cuts out for a scene that is spliced up out of many shots, over a longer period of time than the montage takes. (Usually to music)
So basically, instead of showing action one second at a time, a 2 minute montage shows something that happens over a longer period of time (longer than 2 minutes).
I'm not a film expert so that's just my take on it. Anyone feel free to correct me.
+J. Haller Productions "a scene that is spliced up out of many shots, over a longer period of time than the montage takes." Wouldn't that also be the definition of every movie?
M Kruter yeah I guess so but usually individual scenes are in real time with time passing between them. When more time passes than is shown in a scene, that is what I would call a montage
To all of you, this is your best video, you made me cry with all the memories that this fine piece of work made me get back again
I would have thrown in there as a honorable mention the Father of Montages - The "Odessa steps" sequence from "Battleship Potemkin"
Dave Bowmans conception, development, and eventual death and rebirth into the star child in 2001: A Space Odyssey has to be noted. It's one of the most intruiging scenes in all of cinema, and just by the way it's shot, it creates suspense and a beautiful scale of time and space with its slow-burn transformation.
These are such intelligent and well-thought out videos. It's nice to see top tens that don't just include the obvious choices.
I love how your top ten list is actually 10 lists in one, giving shout-outs to many different movies people might not know about, + judging them on their own standard. Keep this up, i AM entertained.
One of the best top 10 lists produced.
No reveal montages? End of Usual Suspects, for example?
Please make more of these more often. They're sooooo much better than anything Watch Mojo does. Excellently rendered and well written.
I love all of these montages! What a delicious set you have compiled!
The summertime montage from The Graduate is great too
"Shortbus" has a couple great sex-montages, and the intro is a bit of an homage to the one in Amelie. Sex is used as a narrative device for the character arcs, and the montages are hot, comedic, and heart-warming. I love that movie.
I love these montages. Great picks overall. Teared up a few times.
The Best channel in you tube! Thank u,guys! Amazing! I have a weakness for montages so this video for me it's perfect. I couldn't agree more with your number one pick.
I love the montage from Scarface
Best part of the film.
We are going to need a montage. MONTAAAGEEE!!
I love this channel more and more for videos like these. Keep the good work!
I’ve also loved the Ferris Bueller art museum montage with the the smiths’ “please please please” playing in the background. Ugh love it so much
Rocky will always be #1. Most people didn't even know what a training montage was until rocky
+ReezyBeBreezy most people still don't know what intellectual montage i and how powerful it can be used in films
+Jake Maringoni I didn't know it was a specific thing separate from the simultaneous storytelling, but I knew that cutting between contrasting themes is quite potent.
+ReezyBeBreezy Agreed. I didn't even know all these different categories. Whenever somebody says 'montage', Rocky is the first (and probably only) thing that comes to mind
It's the first training montage but it's not the first montage.
Anybody else able to tell what number 1 was the second they heard the organ?
I am writing a screenplay for a class, and this helped me understand what a shot of series represents. Thank you!
so good, you commentary and perspective made my understanding of films story telling techniques wow... thanks a lot
Climax montage from High Noon ... The best western ever made
Missing 500 days of summer Expectations & Reality montage :)
I love you Cinefix!!
You guys are true fans of movies on UA-cam.
Remarkable job, congratulations and thank you.
keep up the good work
Wich is the Song of Citizen Kane Scne..?? Please..
Does anyone know what the background music was for no.5 (at 05:40)
I'm also looking for it. Have you found it by any chance?!
Amazing video, truly great picks
No blind spot this was on the money!!! Great picks and great mentions and examples I want to watch every single movie mentioned!!!!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
How about *Top 10 Acting Performances?* Room enough for variety, with _just the right_ narrowness to have people learning what makes good acting.
They should've included any montage from Apocalypse Now, but other than that, Bravo Cinefix, Bra-Vo
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I know its not a movie but the ending montage of the serie 6 feet under was amazing! Seeing all the characters you loved through the whole show die one after another was pure genius!
Is the lead-up to each choice an 11th category, a montage montage?
Hell yeah The Godfather is #1!!!! When I first watched that scene my jaw dropped and I was so amazed!!!!
Great list and video, thank you!
Totally agree with #1!! That scene always gives me chills.
I know right! It is so well crafted and the symbolism is on point all the way.
+CineFix honestly, if you did the mention of Up among several examples and then chose something else... I'd have lost respect for this channel. You guys chose Up, you didn't pick something more obscure. You fucking chose Up. That was the right god damn move.
And you chose Rocky! You guys fucking nailed this.
+Grae “seven” Hall yeah they did...
It's subjective, and I am more appreciative of the obscure, or at least movies I hadn't seen/thought of in a certain way. Otherwise it's just a circlejerk.
Yeah, except it should have been top. I mean, how do you possibly get that level of emotion right at the start of the film?
It's actually the best montages of all time...
Not the best montages of all time you haven't seen...
And Up, is arguably one of the greats...
I was expecting to see a 12 year old Call of Duty 360 no scope MLG SWEG SAVAGE MONTAGE with top quality editing and use of FX.
This was one of my favorite videos from your channel yet. With the subject, I thought for sure you would blast too fast with it, but the pace was great, and you recognized "Up", which could have been #2 or even #1... but you got it on there so I am happy. not that anyone cares but I am a customer, sort of.
You also mentioned the Voight-Kampf test, AND Cinema Paradiso's montage so this is extremely fulfilling. I've been singing the praises of Cinema Paradiso since it came out, and watched as it faded quickly from the mass public interest within a couple years of its debut. The montage at the end, if it does not leave you with losing control of your eyes, you're just an ass hole. It's one of the most heartbreaking yet pleasing moments ever made in film.
I enjoy all your videos and the voiceover is fantastic
The Working with the Chinese montage from the martian
The montage in Cabaret with the beating up by the Nazis and what's going on on the Cabaret's stage.
I have a deep respect for you and your knowledge of film. Thanx for the hard work!
THIS WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WELL MADE VIDEO THANK YOU
Could someone please explain the meaning of the word "Gestalt" here? I'm german and while the german meaning seems to be similiar - I don't think its the same.
In german it means:
shape, form of something - a rock can have the Gestalt of a person which would mean it looks similiar to a person (but not Mt Rushmore similiar) but it also can describe the shape of something abstract, a piece of art, an argument, a form of a society - I have the feeling Gestalt isn't used in such a wide context in english.
It's means an organized whole
Gestalt is the name of a psychologist whose major contribution was his thoughts on how even with small pieces of something shown to a person, their mind manages to comprehend the entirety of it. My psychology teacher described it by picking up a chair and telling us to focus on the leg, and even though the leg of the chair is a piece on its own, we see it as a part of the chair. Basically it's about seeing things as whole entities rather than just the parts making up the whole.
I hope that helped you.
The Beatles are the gestalt of John, George, Paul and Ringo.
come on, there was no psychologist named Gestalt, it comes from the german word which refers to the wholes (forms) we perceive
Gestalt is the name of a principle in psychology created in Berlin which says that the human mind looks for and finds a way to create a whole out of chaotic information.
I'm surprised there weren't any Edgar Wright comedic montages
Sahil Makhijani I was about to comment the very same thing
Great list and video!
a category of its own - Baraka!
fantastic video, though! Well worth the watch!
Please don't stop making these videos.
"lacrimosa" montage from The Tree of Life
I adore the ending montage of The Wings of Honneamise. Chronicling both the birth and life of Shiro to the history of industry and technology, all of which is brilliantly executed with a blur of peripheral imagery.
There's something that gets me about Lil' Ze's killing montage in City of God, from the motel to Goose to him growing up, it's such a bold way to develop such an idea that I love it.
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"Big Night," "Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?," and even the octopus scene from "Oldboy."
Can I please know the background song during #7 (Donnie Darko)? Aaand the Darude Sandstorm joke isn't funny anymore.
+Tung Jean San I would also like to know!
***** that piano track? I don't think it is...
All around me are familiar faces...
Yes! I’m trying to find the same! It’s beautiful 3:34
Love me a bit of Cinefix. Regularly teach me something new about movies. And a good effort at covering eras and genres, even languages.
Creed's montage was extremely well done too. Combing old with new, Creed's run through the street gave me goose bumps.
Surprised no one has made any "where's my MLG snipe montage?" jokes yet. Guess people on this channel are a bit more mature.
Ok I was going to do that but I saw your comment... Hah just joking, I would never do that.
Where's my mlg montage
Montages kick ass. who doesn't like them.
The cinema paradiso montage makes me cry any time I see the movie
I love these videos!
the godfather is just a fantastic lesson of filmmaking, we'll never stop learning from it!
"UP"..Not sure why the fuck that was made for kids, but I was a mess when I first seen it.
Also... why is Psycho's shower scene not number 1, and actually not even mentioned at all?
+bloodySunday77 Hmmm cause it's not a montage?
What do you mean? It's literally the definition of montage as a "production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture". There is a big misconception that it concerns only a series of events through time, but this is wrong. One of its types is quick "metric" editing, as defined by Eisenstein, and it's that type that is being seen at the shower scene. More details online and at the "Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene" book by Philip J. Skerry.
Even if you do classify that as a montage, it doesn't deserve #1 spot, like 5 and above maybe. The Godfather baptism montage is like not even close any of the others, it is without a doubt #1.
Any top 10 by these guys deserves a like.
I always get goosebumps watching your videos 😱😱
Goodfellas shouldve been on the list
breaking bad's crystal blue persuasion montage
i teared up just watching your montage of the up montage. really, i'm not kidding
And the montage from ghostbusters was pretty awesome
I love you guys, and your other channels.
Rocky IV is way too low on the list.
+Sean O'Hara I think the category is just too low. I personally would have given it a very high rank, cos it is so damn popular
keep these lists coming!
I don't know if you'd call it a montage; but the opening sequence in Contact that takes you from Ellie's eye, through the entire galaxy and universe, back to her eye - gives me chills every time.
God. This list is so fucking good. Well done again Cinefix.