1. your definition of ‘montage’ would be my definition of ‘training montage’. the training montage is only one variety of montage. taking montages more generally, the beginning of Up can prettymuch wipe the floor with any training montage.
2. by explicitly mentioning the title of that montage, you made me imagine a re-edited fan-video that sets the whole thing to ‘I can Make You a Man’ from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
η: really, the thing that makes ‘I'll Make a Man out of You’ so excellent is that it draws on more than one montage genre: it's simultaneously a training montage and a many-setbacks montage.
maybe we should be trying to find winners for all the different overused montage categories. i'm interested in seeing nominees for best science montage.
i think that particular device might be relatively uncommon among contenders for best travel montage.
in terms of interesting diversity, i think best closing-credits/ever-after montage could be an especially promising category, since it affords more natural opportunities for quirky tangents and easter eggs than a lot of the other types do.
Start at 2 minutes in in this video. But you have to watch until about 3:51 to get the punchline, even if some of that isn't strictly part of the montage.
2. by explicitly mentioning the title of that montage, you made me imagine a re-edited fan-video that sets the whole thing to ‘I can Make You a Man’ from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
η: really, the thing that makes ‘I'll Make a Man out of You’ so excellent is that it draws on more than one montage genre: it's simultaneously a training montage and a many-setbacks montage.
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in terms of interesting diversity, i think best closing-credits/ever-after montage could be an especially promising category, since it affords more natural opportunities for quirky tangents and easter eggs than a lot of the other types do.
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Good point w/r/t the name.
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