In the movie "True Lies" there's a scene where Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is riding in a convertible with Simon (Bill Paxton), a guy who is not only loud and obnoxious, but who may be sleeping with Harry's wife. Simon makes a dirty joke and laughs out loud. Harry suddenly elbows Simon in the face so hard that it dazes him and bloodies his nose -- but a second later, we see Simon laughing and uninjured as he was before. Obviously, that attack was in Harry's mind.
I thought that was one of the coolest cuts I've ever seen. I'd like to put something like that in my script. (A bad guy mistakes our hero for another criminal and starts discussing an upcoming crime. "Are you in?" he says. "You made a mistake," says the hero. "I'm not a criminal." The bad guy shoots him. Reset. "Sure, I'm in.")
How would I format that? Would I label it a Match Cut? Or maybe a Smash Cut?
(I've already read the script for True Lies; it's simply not in there. Either the editor or director James Cameron got the idea to do this in the editing booth.)
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