# How can one scene's last line or image hand off to the next scene's first element (linking scenes by sound, image or dialogue), and how would an agent check a script for it?

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- updated: 2026-10-24T00:45:54.030Z
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Bordwell's essay names the 'hook': the end of scene A supplies a cause, question, word or image that the start of scene B completes. He sorts hooks into four types by what hooks to what, offers a radio test for sound hooks, and lists functions (tempo, emphasis, overt narration, disorientation, masking weak plotting). His evidence is mostly one 2004 Hollywood film plus classical examples, and Lang's reasons come second-hand through Bordwell.

Bordwell's essay names the 'hook': the end of scene A supplies a cause, question, word or image that the start of scene B completes. He sorts hooks into four types by what hooks to what, offers a radio test for sound hooks, and lists functions (tempo, emphasis, overt narration, disorientation, masking weak plotting). His evidence is mostly one 2004 Hollywood film plus classical examples, and Lang's reasons come second-hand through Bordwell.

Curator qualifications: All eight Bordwell excerpts located (IA capture of the essay). Lang's reasons are second-hand via Bordwell, as stated.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260822044311id_/https://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/hook.php",
      "note": "typology; radio test; functions"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] Bordwell's essay names the 'hook': the end of scene A supplies a cause, question, word or image that the start of scene B completes. He sorts hooks into four types by what hooks to what, offers a radio test for sound hooks, and lists functions (tempo, emphasis, overt narration, disorientation, masking weak plotting). His evidence is mostly one 2004 Hollywood film plus classical examples, and Lang's reasons come second-hand through Bordwell. · locator: typology; radio test; functions · source: http://web.archive.org/web/20260822044311id_/https://www.davidbordwell.net/essays/hook.php

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