Montage is made up of events that happen in sequence and helps to mold semiotics in film. Along with facial gestures the story is also important. Also many people who watch a movie will see something different and get a different feel of the events that occurred. Using the example in this weeks text is the Movie Rashomon. It has many conflicting story points about how a samurai warrior died.
Everyone involved including the person who died said they were the one to kill the samurai off. The only piece of information as stated by the text is you only know that the woman in the story was raped by the bandit. Therefore most people would assume that the bandit would have been the person who killed off the husband. However one should not make assumptions due to the fact that all three people involved were the cause.
Montage can also be used as a time skip in a movie or game or also be used for flashbacks to describe what events have happened in the movies equivalent past that have lead up to the present. In some movie series a sequal will take place in a setting years after the events in the movies before. A prime example of this would be Toy Story 3 where Andy who was only ten or eleven in the first two movies. In the third he is seventeen and has given most of his toys away. That has explained why the initial cast had become so few with characters from the other movies being mentioned as sold in this one. Montage is a way to refer to specific events and bring chain them together. In the end we all see things differently. Many people thought of Toy Story 3 a sad movie for me it was definitely the most serious of Three but had a sweet ending about new beginnings. As is the world of semiotics everything and everything is open to at least some interpretation.
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