Task 9: Analysis of Title Sequence

Fight Club, 1999, David Fincher.

Fight Club, the opening sequence from Ode on Vimeo

The title sequence in Fight Club was conjured up by none other than David Fincher himself, it shows the passageway of fear nerves in the brain crossing synapses and penetrating the character as a whole. It is recalling interesting because it's quite confusing when you don't know what's going on. It almost looks like your flowing around the body. Its cool as the cool strikingly blue tone is very interesting and also very eye opening. Also the contrast with the lighter blue colours with the text really signifies them even more than they already were. These blue colours also highly contrast with the black undertone to the intro. Also the fast paced music and how quick the credits are to leave the screen could signify a fast paced movie and perhaps a confusing and fast story.

The credits go in the following order.

1. Distributor
2. Production
3. Director
4. Actor 1
5. Actor 2
6. Actor 3
7. Title
8. Actors...
9. Casting
10. Costume 
11. Special Effects Make-up supervisor
12. Sound Design
13. Music by 
14. Editor
15. Production design
16. Director of photography 
17. Executive producer
18. Written by 
19. Screenplay by 
20. Produced by 
21. Directed by

The Title sequence introduces us to two characters, the first is a narrator, who is being held at gunshot and the second is 'Tyler Durden', the character mentioned in dialogue so we know he exists.

I really love this opening because it is in fact supposed to show how fear is through the body and I think its really cool to show that in a characters perspective. It's a fast paces opening title, so the audience does not get bored due to the fast pace and also the action at the end. The way the fear also travelled down the barrel of the gun was almost as though the fear was making its way back to wherein came from- the gun, which is pointed at the character.