intercut
To intersect.
Noun
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English cut English intercut From inter- + cut.
Forms
Verb
- To intersect.
- 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...