Twitter Users Ponder the Greatest Dissolves In Film

By Petr Navovy | Social Media | October 9, 2023 |

By Petr Navovy | Social Media | October 9, 2023 |

Who doesn’t love a bit of verve in their filmmaking? There’s a fine line between flashy direction or editing that takes you out of the experience, and well-pitched choices that enhance things while also making you whoop with joy at the bravado on display. One of my favorite film sequences of all time—and this isn’t exactly a strange, new choice—is the iconic intro to Apocalypse Now, which the mad king Coppola and Vittorio Storaro and editors Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, and Walter Murch pepper with a host of colorful cinematic touches. Twitter had this kind of filmmaking on its mind the other day, when users pondered their favorite examples of the dissolve—an editing technique that it feels like we’ve lost over time, so let’s show some love here:

what is the greatest dissolve in film? pic.twitter.com/06WlTyOjxW

— paimon (@_PAIM0N) October 3, 2023

what is the greatest dissolve in film? pic.twitter.com/06WlTyOjxW

— paimon (@_PAIM0N) October 3, 2023

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

how the Paramount logo dissolves into the opening shot pic.twitter.com/d4aMednZHx

— weston. (@westonplus) October 4, 2023

Pienso (siempre) en esta sobre el final de "Decision to Leave" cuando Seo-rae parece tener en la palma de la mano (je!) a Hae-jun! juju monumental film, sombras de Vertigo. pic.twitter.com/gTVVQU5WNZ

— sebastian (@sebastianudo) October 4, 2023

Not a true dissolve but this needs to be posted. pic.twitter.com/jsovT2Q7vA

— Audie Sumaray (@audiesumaray) October 4, 2023

🩷🌫https://t.co/Sk0ZEl77hL

— Filmandera (@filmandera) October 3, 2023

house in Mousehuntpic.twitter.com/IYXA75OyCs

— A microscopic germ (@kashwiddakay) October 4, 2023

pic.twitter.com/L1sj46j4A8

— RepeatRepeatRepeat (@The3Rrrs) October 4, 2023

pic.twitter.com/pu8gpEbCNx

— doom_slug (@doom_slug) October 4, 2023

Yeah love it.
Psycho has two of the greatest pic.twitter.com/iyInPNPUXV

— wellyousaythat© (@realarsenalism) October 4, 2023

iconic pic.twitter.com/RkHZqviKbc

— Jean Genet Ramsey (@janelane10) October 5, 2023

If we are talking superimpose then the end of The Favourite pic.twitter.com/y6Nu7Q2f2c

— cinebite (@moviedietician) October 4, 2023

pic.twitter.com/iiDks2HjR1

— Fookz (@SupaFookz) October 4, 2023

pic.twitter.com/0m7TAxbSca

— Vito Lorenzo Milazzo (@vitolm) October 4, 2023

what is the greatest dissolve in film? https://t.co/W7hDWRnw9b pic.twitter.com/gAxp35S85m

— Rodelo (@elrodelo) October 4, 2023

Greatest dissolve in film history? pic.twitter.com/Svt50SRqDg

— You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat (@film_quiz) August 22, 2020

One of the greatest dissolve transitions in film history. pic.twitter.com/HKiVcoJxeK

— Moundshroud of the Snows (@KKalvaitis) April 5, 2022

i bang on about this movie a lot but the combination of match cut and dissolve in The Fall *chefs kiss* pic.twitter.com/FycafM6Bum

— redtickseed (@RedTickseed) May 7, 2023

pic.twitter.com/8boILWkchK

— Anung un Rama's cunty shattered horns (@MatasRezinovsk1) October 4, 2023