bookend technique

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00:55 Jun 8, 2020
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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Additional field(s): Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: bookend technique
Definition from Reel Club:
In popular cinema, the bookend technique is most often used to refer to a parallel between the opening and closing sequences or shots in a film. The first scene is re-visioned, with only minor changes, in the film’s final scene leaving the audience with a feeling of completion; what was started is now finished.

Example sentence(s):
  • Video essayist Jacob T. Swinney captured our attention in a big way with a simple video that juxtaposed the first frames of a film with the last. He's back with the third installment of his popular "First and Final Frames" series, complete with some of the best films of the year, to give us the chance to explore, once again, the way films are bookended and what can be learned from it. No Film School
  • But Soderbergh knows how to make a sleek thriller, and such keen professionalism would be missed, from the film’s bookends and fine cynicism as chilly as the ending of “Contagion,” to its prismatic, centripetal play with who the central character really is. New City Film
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3 +1Primo ed ultimo montaggio
Elisa Gloder


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Primo ed ultimo montaggio


Definition from AskMetaFilter / nofilmschool/ reelclub:
Sono scene che definiscono la scenografia e la trama ma subito ricapitolano tutto efficacemente alla fine. Tendono a sembrare scene un po' "buttate là", "noncuranti" e fanno poco per anticipare la trama ad eccezione fatta per la scenografia iniziale (introduzione dei personaggi,della scena,ecc..) e ricapitolando tutto in una sezione del finale.

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  • Nel film "Hanna" il bookend inizia con Hanna, la cacciatrice che scocca una freccia ad un alce, lo insegue e lo finisce puntandogli contro una pistola e sparandogli. La scena viene tagliata con una schermata rossa con la scritta Hanna in grandi caratteri bianchi. La scena salta poi alla fine, concludendosi con quasi la stessa sequenza. - reeclub  

Explanation:
Si trova una buona spiegazione del bookend anche nel sito https://nofilmschool.com/2018/03/first-and-final-frames-back...
Elisa Gloder
Italy
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian

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