This might be a strange request but, I'm actually taking an editing class right now and one of my assignments is to do a crossover between 2 movies (like a short 4-5 minutes scene). The goal is to make it look like the chosen scenes are answering one another through the montage. I had a few ideas but each of them seem to fail, moreover, my film knowledge is not as broad as I would want it to be. So, I'm reaching out to the film connoisseurs : if you have any idea of scenes that would go well together, I'm open to anything !

But he has to stretch it to 4-5 minutes.

Can you cut together the poker scenes from Casino Royale with scenes from Rounders?

What was that video where like two dozen movies were cut to look like everyone was at the same club for a party?

Found the scene. It's really cool, though I think the concept is overall stronger than the execution. Still, a very fun idea and I like watching it. And Pacino to Pacino is awesome.

How about merging a Star Trek and Star Wars space battle together? Fanboys will go crazy!

Back when I was learning how to edit, the production company I worked for use to goof around with footage and smash films together for fun. I wish I still had copies of E.T. 2: Judgement Day & Gump Fiction.

They did. Check it out:

How about something like a battle scene from Braveheart crossed with Game of Thrones? I'm thinking of the part where Wallace is yelling "Hold! Hold! Hold!" and cut in Danaerys riding in on her dragon.

Thank you very much for all the replies, I really liked the Hell's Club one. Now I'm hesitating between something like that and a shooting scene (like in Rio Bravo, where they are stuck inside the sheriff's office)

How about a “trapped in the house” horror film where every time they look out the window they see the Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz?

The first mashup I remember seeing was Terminator vs Robocop. This youtube clip is from 2007, but the video itself may be from earlier.

It's by the same guy who did the Hells Club mashup above. He later made a higher quality "extended cut" of it.


I think your class homework just wants a simple cross-cutting of scenes though.

devilshalo's suggestion of poker scenes is good, since what you want is something with a background in common, and a lot of close-ups, or at least actors individually, so you can plausibly intercut between them.

I always thought the movies Excalibur and Month Python and the Holy Grail has similar looks. It might be funny to start with Excalibur and start inserting Monty Python scenes.

Another thing that might work is intercutting a movie with its remake. Take a scene that's in both films and cut it so one character in the original is talking to another in the remake.

I remember this film montage that combines three takes on the "Will Graham interview Hannibal Lector" scene from Red Dragon/Manhunter/Hannibal(TV).

Another thought is, if the shots don't necessarily have to seem like they're taking place at the same time, intercutting The Thing (1982) with its prequel (2011), using the scene in the original where they investigate the Norwegian base, and intercut with "flashbacks" to the prequel to show how what they discover happened.

Someone did something similar intercutting Obi-Wan's recollections in Star Wars with scenes from the prequels:

Since the thread was bumped, how about a Final Destination one makes up with Airplane?

You also might get some ideas by watching Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, an entire film that was dedicated to this concept.