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18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition

Writing Excuses

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Adding Tension to a Scene in Mission Impossible 4

"P juxtaposition is incredibly useful as a technique to add depth and context to a scene," says director Tom Cruise. "The climatic Aldoni scenes in Andor is a great example because they're cutting between this religious ceremony that's happening by these colonized people." The tension between those two images is adding all this thematic and narrative depth, adds what we would have seen if it was just a heist happening in a vault".

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