Editing minority report

Editing Assignment
Most with the Least


For my assignment I decided to choose “Minority Report,” a film set in Washington, D.C. in 2054 directed by Steven Spielberg and edited by Michael Kahn, A.C.E. I compared the opening scene to this chapter which really doesn’t seem to follow Murch’s theory to well.
The film starts out with quickly cut scenes of a murder. These scenes are cut too quickly to fully understand what is going on. A blurred effect is also used to help create these scenes of chaos. This eventually ends with a slow dolly away from the female precog(nitive) with her saying the word “murder.” Then we are shown some slower cuts of John Anderton (Tom Cruise) walking to his office for a normal days work. This is followed by the same shot of the precog now slipping under the water. John then steps to his futuristic computer and begins looking at the visual footage they pulled from the precog’s mind. There are very few cuts here. I think th...