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Video Hilariously Breaks Down What Happens in the Moments Between the Bits Shown in a Montage

By Petr Navovy | Videos | November 13, 2017 |

By Petr Navovy | Videos | November 13, 2017 |


Cinematic montages are fun and efficient ways of covering a lot of essential story ground very quickly. They allow a filmmaker to creatively and often stylishly or rhythmically skip through plot beats while leaving out the minutiae and banal details that pad out real life.

There have been many parodies and self-aware winks to montages in film and TV, but one of my new favourites is by YouTube duo Chris and Jack. Their video lovingly pays tribute to exactly those quiet moments in between the cinematic cuts:

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Petr Knava lives in London and plays musicen>