Opening credits

We went on the website “Art of the Title” so that we could watch the opening credits of a film. I chose “Deadpool”. The title sequence of Deadpool is very modern and in-keeping with the theme of the movie, rather than using a Victorian, notebook style for the titles, like Sherlock does, it uses an incredible freeze-frame of a car crash. The camera slowly pans through impossible spaces, showing the inside of a car as it crashes. It also introduces the audience to the satirical and funny theme of the film, by crediting names like “An overpaid tool” and “God’s perfect idiot” rather than the actors’ actual names. The music that accompanies the title sequence also reinforces the comedic theme of the film, rather than a bombastic, dramatic score that is usually a common element of most superhero movies, “Angel of the morning” plays throughout the opening titles. We also quickly learn that Deadpool is not a normal, serious, non-killing superhero that we all know from other superhero films. We see him shooting one of the henchmen while at the same time giving another a wedgie, this shows the audience that Deadpool does not take his job seriously but instead takes the time to humiliate his enemies.