The director also plays with other aspects of continuity editing, such as subverting the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot.

So I feel like that kind of slipped into the song "Shot Reverse Shot."

It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction (see shot reverse shot).

The Shot reverse shot has also become widely used by this point as an index of conversational visual perspective, and as a manner of scene dissection.

Through the use of various film techniques, such as shot reverse shot, the viewers are led to align themselves with the point of view of a male protagonist.

Spielberg eschewed the typical "shot reverse shot" cinematography technique used when filming characters' interactions in favor of the long takes, which were shot by a mobile, probing camera.

The classical style ensures temporal and spatial continuity as a way of advancing narrative, using such techniques as the 180 degree rule, Establishing shot, and Shot reverse shot.

With this scene, the story of the film starts with clever editing of scenes in which the two adversaries exchange claims to the song, in a shot reverse shot technique.

Shot reverse shot is a feature of the "classical" Hollywood style of continuity editing, which deemphasizes transitions between shots such that the spectator perceives one continuous action that develops linearly, chronologically, and logically.

Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

He loves to use "champ/contre-champ" (shot-countershot), therefore the "listener" becomes an active participant as well in the conversation.