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Title Sequence Clip Review

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     I thought that the opening sequences to these films were very engaging and left me wanting more out of these films. I have only seen and heard about half of the films shown and did not know what to expect, but I am sure glad that I got to experience these openings. What makes them so engaging is the vagueness inside the execution of these openings and makes you wonder about the different possibilities or directions the characters and stories of these films could take , with some examples being  Go ldfinger  and  Saturday Night Fever ; on the other hand, some openings are just their titles in unique fonts presenting the people who star in these films with a song from the score  accompanied with pictures or shots of people  in the background , with  one  example being  Raging Bull . "The best film typography isn't superfluous or incongruous, but fundamentally helps to tell the story" (Merril, 2004). The openings make much more of...