Reality Crowd

Sorry for my second Star Wars related post this week, but this one is too good not to put up. Often the opening credits to a movie define the tone of the film and help get the audience (hopefully) to the place the filmmaker wants them. Here is the opening credits to the original Star Wars animated in the style of Saul Bass. It really shows just how far an opening sequence can go in terms of defining a film’s feel. What if Star Wars had started off like this, instead of the famous crawling text and orchestral score by John Williams?

Thanks to LaughingSquid.com for the Link

Anyone that missed “A Scanner Darkly” when it came out in 2006 would be well served to check out the film. It’s the perfect combination of Richard Linklater’s Rotoscope animation style (developed on “Waking Life“) and Phillip K. Dick’s paranoid tale of drug hallucinations in a society obsessed with surveillance. The film is both highly entertaining and extremely thought provoking.

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