Twilight for the Gods

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Twilight for the Gods

It is twilight for The Gods of Time and Space.  They are fading away with the century.  Their ability to take two unrelated shots and edit them together creating a new relationship earned Editors that name and it is the basis of their art.  Now electronic editing has erased the mysticism that long protected them and their craft.  The Editor’s power over time and space is being usurped by the committee that sits behind him.

            Electronics has opened the door to micro-management.  The editor is no longer alone with the film.  Sitting behind him are the director, the producer, the executive producer, and actor Edward Norton; all eagerly helping him or her to edit and covetous of the power of the Gods.  Collaborative art has gotten confused with mob rule.

When I interviewed Steve Cohen four years ago, he predicted that everyone would be an editor in the new world of electronics.  It is happening sooner than perhaps even he imagined.  The mysteries of the Kem and Moviola that baffled directors, producers and teen-age executives no longer guard the gate.  Everyone is now computer literate and the Avid is only a computer so it naturally follows that everyone can edit.  The Noble Six Hundred Editors of Hollywood in 1950 have been overwhelmed by the Six Million Barbarians at the Gate.

The ability to change images easily on a computer belies the art of editing.  It is too easy.  The mystery of the process of constructing scenes is gone and there is no longer a need to think things out.  Just try it.  Like the infinite number of monkeys on the infinite number of typewriters creating the great novel, you’ll hit the right arrangement of shots eventually.  Editing by attrition.  The committee will sort it out and vote on the result.

Gone is all thought of the years talented Editors spent learning and then honing their craft.  The years of apprenticeship that nurtured a Michael Kahn, a Dede Allen and a Tom Rolf are unnecessary.  Since the Avid does all the work there is no need to get the best, most experienced person.  Hire the cheapest.  After all, how bad can it be?

Working on film, I had to make a commitment to my cuts.  It was time and splicing tape to change them.  I pre-edited my scenes in my mind while watching the dailies.  Later, in the editing room I honed at the bench the vision I had thought out.  Sure I reworked material, but there was thought behind it.  Electronics requires no such commitment.  It is “no fault” editing.

Electronic editing is in many ways a godsend for Film Editing, but the downside is incompetence and indecision.  Why is a system that claims to save time and money causing so much stress and overtime?  Do we really need five versions of a scene?  Must everything be rushed out without time for thought?  Is not the time an artist spends alone with his soul what begets his best work?

I refuse to go quietly into the night.  I did not spend thirty-five years at the bench to be a button-pusher.  I will not be a party to committee editing.  I love to collaborate with the director and even the producer at the proper time, but I do not need a dozen micro-managers sitting behind me while I edit.  What I do need is respect for my craft and my skill and the time to make my magic. Twilight for the Gods

We have to get beyond “committee editing” and go for the benefits of the electronic systems.  The “liquid editing” that Orson Welles spoke of is here.  But it needs to be in the hands of an experienced and talented Film Editor working alone with his material.  The collaboration should not consist of orders fired over the Editor’s shoulder, but in discussions involving story, insight, vision and inspiration from the filmmaker.  This melding of talent produces brilliance.

Remember, the pendulum swings both ways.  The Art of Editing will come again.  We can bring it back with our personal commitment to it.  The confusion and indecision that arrived with electronics will sort itself out.  The Gods of Time and Space aren’t dead.  They’re only sleeping.  A new dawn awaits.

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