Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
09-19-10, 05:26 PM
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Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
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09-20-10, 10:38 AM
#6
Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
A lot of the old serials used to have them, which is why STAR WARS had it like that. Of course, now that I think of it, I can't recall which ones. Not the Flash Gordon ones, I remember those being stationary. Or maybe one of the three did. Maybe GONE WITH THE WIND had rolling credits. I'll have to look when I get home.
Last edited by Ash Ketchum; 09-20-10 at 01:29 PM.
09-20-10, 10:42 AM
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DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
A lot of the old serials used to have them, which is why STAR WARS had it like tht. Of course, now that I think of it, I can't recall which ones. Not the Flash Gordon ones, I remember those being stationary. Or maybe one of the three did. Maybe GONE WITH THE WIND had rolling credits. I'll have to look when I get home.
Kiss Me Deadly had the titles and credits crawl in in reverse order (as if they were painted on a road and were encountered last-to-first), so onscreen the movie's title is:
Deadly
Kiss Me
09-20-10, 03:29 PM
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Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
I just remembered one: HIGH SIERRA (1941), a great crime thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. IIRC, the credits roll up over a shot of one of the Sierra mountains.
09-20-10, 04:29 PM
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DVD Talk Hero
Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
I sort of have a fondness for those old-school "data dumps" they would stick on the openings of science fiction movies back then. Especially if it's a computer read-out. "Outland" did this, too. Like they had to tell the audience "This is happening in the future," in case the flying cars and spaceships didn't clue them in.
09-22-10, 07:05 AM
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Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
I checked the three FLASH GORDON serials last night. Those credits don't roll. Maybe it was BUCK ROGERS? I don't have that one to check. But I definitely recall serials with those rolling credits. Now I'm going nuts because I don't know which ones to check of the ones I have. And I have to start getting ready for work. Oh, well...it'll have to wait.
09-22-10, 07:33 AM
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Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
I checked the three FLASH GORDON serials last night. Those credits don't roll. Maybe it was BUCK ROGERS? I don't have that one to check. But I definitely recall serials with those rolling credits. Now I'm going nuts because I don't know which ones to check of the ones I have. And I have to start getting ready for work. Oh, well...it'll have to wait.
Last edited by rw2516; 09-22-10 at 07:43 AM.
09-22-10, 12:18 PM
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DVD Talk Legend
Re: Movies that have Star Wars style opening text crawls
There's a wikipedia page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_opening_crawl
from that page:
and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_opening_crawl
from that page:
...Lucas has stated that the opening crawl was inspired by the opening crawls used at the beginning of each episode of the original Flash Gordon film serial, which was the inspiration for Lucas to write much of the Star Wars saga...
Parodies
The Mel Brooks film Spaceballs opens with a similar, but much more humorous crawl, with gags such as "unbeknownst to her, but knownst [sic] to us". At the end, in small letters, it reads "If you can read this, you don't need glasses". The science fiction-comedy television show Red Dwarf used an opening crawl in episodes Backwards and Dimension Jump. Both feature similar, humorous crawls, the former scrolling too fast to be read without freeze-frame.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me opens with a similar crawl. It is accompanied by a voiceover. Airplane II: The Sequel begins with a crawl of the text of an erotic story that is "broken" like glass by a space shuttle flying through it. The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie uses a crawl to set up the clips of the shorts featured. The crawl reads "A long long long long long...time ago, in a universe far, far, far, far, far...away...whew!" The film Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise opens with a crawl in homage to Star Wars.
The sneak peek of the unfinished game Space Quest VII: Return to Roman Numerals had a similar crawl with a voiceover. The difference was that this one was being typed out as it was being spoken. Those who attended Nintendo's online Camp Hyrule 2006 were greeted with an introductory opening crawl sequence.
The Simpsons episode Co-Dependent's Day contains a crawl for a Star Wars spoof called Cosmic Wars which makes fun of the political and bureaucratic quarrels in The Phantom Menace.
Family Guy's Star Wars parody, "Blue Harvest", opens with the phrase "A long time ago, but somehow in the future....". It then gives plot spoilers in its version of the opening crawl, then digresses slightly to talk about Angelina Jolie and her relationship with her brother before ending with "Princess Leia was coming back from buying space groceries when this happened..." The sequels to "Blue Harvest", "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and It's a Trap! also feature a crawl at the beginning.
The That '70s Show episode "A New Hope" opened with a similar crawl, complete with the show's logo replacing the Star Wars one.
Recent editions of Apple Computer's iMovie software feature a similar title effect called "Far, Far Away" in reference to Star Wars. Recent editions of Windows Movie Maker also include a text effect in reference to Star Wars. Vista versions have changed the 3D mode.
In the Fairly Oddparents episode "Wishology Part III", the crawl is parodied. Cosmo begins that Timmy rescued his friends from the darkness. Then, he says that is all the information he has, and then ends with, "Anyone? Hello?".
In Shrek 4-D, the Magic Mirror exclaims, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...", then appears to ascend, before Pinocchio tells him that is not the right story.
The Mel Brooks film Spaceballs opens with a similar, but much more humorous crawl, with gags such as "unbeknownst to her, but knownst [sic] to us". At the end, in small letters, it reads "If you can read this, you don't need glasses". The science fiction-comedy television show Red Dwarf used an opening crawl in episodes Backwards and Dimension Jump. Both feature similar, humorous crawls, the former scrolling too fast to be read without freeze-frame.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me opens with a similar crawl. It is accompanied by a voiceover. Airplane II: The Sequel begins with a crawl of the text of an erotic story that is "broken" like glass by a space shuttle flying through it. The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Movie uses a crawl to set up the clips of the shorts featured. The crawl reads "A long long long long long...time ago, in a universe far, far, far, far, far...away...whew!" The film Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise opens with a crawl in homage to Star Wars.
The sneak peek of the unfinished game Space Quest VII: Return to Roman Numerals had a similar crawl with a voiceover. The difference was that this one was being typed out as it was being spoken. Those who attended Nintendo's online Camp Hyrule 2006 were greeted with an introductory opening crawl sequence.
The Simpsons episode Co-Dependent's Day contains a crawl for a Star Wars spoof called Cosmic Wars which makes fun of the political and bureaucratic quarrels in The Phantom Menace.
Family Guy's Star Wars parody, "Blue Harvest", opens with the phrase "A long time ago, but somehow in the future....". It then gives plot spoilers in its version of the opening crawl, then digresses slightly to talk about Angelina Jolie and her relationship with her brother before ending with "Princess Leia was coming back from buying space groceries when this happened..." The sequels to "Blue Harvest", "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" and It's a Trap! also feature a crawl at the beginning.
The That '70s Show episode "A New Hope" opened with a similar crawl, complete with the show's logo replacing the Star Wars one.
Recent editions of Apple Computer's iMovie software feature a similar title effect called "Far, Far Away" in reference to Star Wars. Recent editions of Windows Movie Maker also include a text effect in reference to Star Wars. Vista versions have changed the 3D mode.
In the Fairly Oddparents episode "Wishology Part III", the crawl is parodied. Cosmo begins that Timmy rescued his friends from the darkness. Then, he says that is all the information he has, and then ends with, "Anyone? Hello?".
In Shrek 4-D, the Magic Mirror exclaims, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...", then appears to ascend, before Pinocchio tells him that is not the right story.
09-22-10, 12:47 PM
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