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The Blood Sister viewing (pp. 705–706)

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this marks the start of a brutally drawn-out Getting-to-Know-and-Trust-You montage, a genre-convention, this montage involving Harley-rides at such speeds that the girl has to keep her hand on Blood Sister’s head to keep B.S.’s wimple from flying off, and long conversational walks filmed at wide-angle, and protracted and basically unwinnable games of charades with the Trappists, plus some quick scenes of […] the girl’s burned lantern jaw and hairless Promethean brow frozen in a sunlit montage-climax shot under a novitiate wimple’s gull-wings—all accompanied by—no kidding—‘Getting to Know You,’ which Hal imagines the Stork justified to himself as subversively saccharine.

Context

The montage convention anatomized beat by beat and named as such twice ("a genre-convention"; "montage-climax shot"), with Hal supplying the auteur's imagined alibi — "subversively saccharine," irony as the excuse for feeling. Note: the plan's one-liner files "montage conventions" under 140; the actual montage anatomy sits here in 138 — see Flags.

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