intercut
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to insert (shots from other scenes, flashbacks, etc.) into the narrative of a film.
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to interrupt the narrative of (a film) with shots from other scenes, flashbacks, etc.
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of intercut
Example Sentences
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It is intercut with deposition footage of the real Charatan, who is interrogated about sticking by Durst as he was accused of horrific things.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
The way the lake looks and sounds, the movements of mundane morning tasks, are intercut with memories that eventually expose the roots and depths of Anne’s and Frankie’s predicaments.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
Seinfeld’s reboot is intercut with the story of Orny Adams, a young stand-up trying to follow the Seinfeld playbook.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
That’s how the whole movie proceeds—shots of New York exteriors intercut with conversational snippets from a seemingly random, middle-aged New Yorker.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2023
The footage is intercut with short studio clips of Gale, Boggs, and Cressida describing the incident.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
More directly than his previous films, his penchant for long takes with minimal intercutting seeds an emotional suspense, for us as well as the fragile humans inside cinematographer Yves Cape’s cool, steady frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
With knowledge of past events through the intercutting of scenes, these meanings become touched with the sacred grief of all that one has loved and lost, yet also soothed by the consolation that remembrance brings.
From The Verge ● Mar. 25, 2022
He then decided that intercutting between Purdue’s internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer “a true understanding of what happened.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
The intercutting isn’t the trick here—the trick is writing text that makes perfect sense whether you read it as a standalone pirate comic, a standalone newsvendor’s monologue, or a dialogue between the two.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019
“Stay in the same low angle of him, intercutting with the key,” Haynes said.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
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