The climactic scene of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) in which juxtaposed shots of Willard slashing Kurtz with shots of the tribespeople slaughtering a passive water buffalo is an example of what two forms of editing?

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The juxtaposed shots of Willard slashing Kurtz with shots of the tribespeople slaughtering a passive water buffalo demonstrate parallel editing, which involves the intercutting of two or more separate actions that occur simultaneously. Additionally, the contrast between the violence of Kurtz's death and the peaceful but equally graphic slaughter of the water buffalo represents associative editing, which links two or more images or actions by their thematic or symbolic relevance.

The Climactic Scene of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979)