~500 days of Summer~
"this is a story of boy meets girl but you should know up front this is not a love story"
The title sequence to the movie '500 days of Summer' is done with home videos (presented with parallel action) of the two main characters growing up. Its starts with an extreme close up of each of the children's eyes and then leads into videos of the actors when they are about 5 years old. They grow older
The title sequence to the movie '500 days of Summer' is done with home videos (presented with parallel action) of the two main characters growing up. Its starts with an extreme close up of each of the children's eyes and then leads into videos of the actors when they are about 5 years old. They grow older
as the credits progress until they are about 18 and then the movie begins. It starts with the narrator introducing the characters and how they feel about love and finding THE ONE!
The introduction is really interesting in my opinion because you are introduced to the main characters before you even know who they are. Then when you know who they are you get the story of there life's and why they have the opinions they do .What I really like about the title sequence is that it makes you attached to the main characters because you feel like you watched them grow up.
It fits into the movie by obviously introducing the main characters.It also tells you 'up front' at the beginning its not a love story but a story about a boy and a girl meeting, Dating, and getting over each other. Which is basically what the whole movie is about.
This Titles Sequence appealed to me because I think its very cute and quirky. I especially like the bit where the narrator introduces Summer Finn (played by Zooey Deschanel) and Tom Hansen (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt )
"This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is the one who he has been searching for ."
I really like this beginning to the movie because it's a little cliched BUT I think its a great way to start a movie and I think it makes people more attached to the characters because as I said earlier you already saw them as they grew up. I also really like the fact that they used real family videos of the actors instead of a child lookalike.
It fits into the movie by obviously introducing the main characters.It also tells you 'up front' at the beginning its not a love story but a story about a boy and a girl meeting, Dating, and getting over each other. Which is basically what the whole movie is about.
This Titles Sequence appealed to me because I think its very cute and quirky. I especially like the bit where the narrator introduces Summer Finn (played by Zooey Deschanel) and Tom Hansen (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt )
"This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is the one who he has been searching for ."
I really like this beginning to the movie because it's a little cliched BUT I think its a great way to start a movie and I think it makes people more attached to the characters because as I said earlier you already saw them as they grew up. I also really like the fact that they used real family videos of the actors instead of a child lookalike.
