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I'm always curious when we watch old film trailers like that and they call them trailers if it was actually a legit trailer from that time and era or if it was something that somebody made recently in an attempt to have a trailer for that movie. You know, people make fan trailers all the time. With AI and deep fakes becoming more and more prevalent, it's kind of scary, really.
Oh, I didn't mean to try to play that again; didn't mean to do that. Um, Alfred Hitchcock—can't talk about American cinema without talking about Hitchcock. Hitchcock, of course, is probably the father of the thriller, a.k.a. horror, but "thriller" is probably a better term for it.
This is a moving clip from "North by Northwest" from 1959. Just looking at this capture here, you probably have seen an allusion to this scene if you've never actually watched the movie. But this is the most famous scene in the movie. He's trying to get possibly murdered by a crop duster. It has some believability issues and things like that, but this is classic Hollywood style.
It's probably well worth noting that you have some POV sequences that show what the character sees and what the other character sees. You see match cutting; he's running this way, and obviously, there's a shot of the plane. Now we see a shot of him, and now we see a shot of the plane. It's not over and over again repeated; we've cut from one sequence to the other, and the action continues along that line, if that makes sense.
It's like watching a music video. You wouldn't watch a music video of them cutting scenes and then going back to repeat that part of the song again. So that's what we mean by match cutting. It's sort of ridiculous but full of innovation—a really big thing for that time.
But, um, yeah, let's go watch this, and I'll see you on the back side of this.