SUDDEN IMPACT
THIS BRIEF sequence (three minutes and thirty-six seconds) from Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood, 1983; editor, Joel Cox) demonstrates how an ordinary scene (a cop, "Dirty Harry," faces armed robbers) can be "constructed," rather than filmed, with emphasis on an intercutting of shots rather than on the mise-en-scene (what is within the shot). (To view the sequence, go here.) This is not to minimize what goes on in the shot, which is well staged with both humor and drama; but clearly the impact of this sequence is due to its editing.
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