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One of the most famous match cuts is in ''. A primitive ape discovers the use of bones as tools and throws the bone into the air. When the bone reaches its highest point, the shot cuts to that of a similarly-shaped space craft floating through space. As well as the two shots being visually similar, it also highlights that both the bone and space craft are tools used by man; that the later space craft is the ultimate progression of man after discovering how to use the bone as a tool. Another match cut occurs at the end of Alfred Hitchcock 's '' North By Northwest ''. As Cary Grant pulls Eva Marie Saint up from Mount Rushmore , the cut then goes to him pulling her up to his bunk on the train. The match cut here skips over the courting, the marriage proposal, and the actual marriage of the two characters who had for much of the film been adversaries. As with ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', because the two shots of a match cut are linked visually they serve to meld together two scenes that would otherwise seem incongruous when edited together as they skip such a large period of story time where a lot may have happened. Near the beginning of James Cameron 's Aliens , a shot of a glass pod that Sigourney Weaver is sleeping in is cut together with a shot of a planet taken from space. The curvature of the glass is mirrored in the curvature of the planet. SEE ALSO |
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