The author discussed a phenomenon that Chinese directors preferred to implement Long-take instead of Montage in their movies. Compared with Montage, Long-take has advantages in focusing on the main characters while maintaining continuous sequentiality of time and contiguity of space. From my point of view, Long-take also enables the audience to focus on the story-telling, elaborating a key feature of the movie – providing another world for the audience to enter and experience, which aligns with the motivation for people to watch a movie in the past time. The author also quoted that this phenomenon might come from the traditional Chinese aesthetic principle (for example, from classical painting). It comes to my mind that some Chinese classical paintings do focus on emphasizing the depth and continuity of the space by combining close objects and far ones. To some extent, Long-take successfully expands the limit of the frame and demonstrates a broader and more complicated scene with more details.
Name: Chen Liheng
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You have illustrated how a long-take can create a more immersive and contiguous experience for the viewer, and likened it to classical Chinese paintings. To further elaborate on this point, you can take some examples in cinema to strengthen your argument or compare it with the montage to make your response more complete.