Credits and Opening titles.

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ora shinchan

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For a few years now we have long pretentious opening titles and up to 10 minutes of closing credits....Why?

Nobody is left in the Cinema to actually read the credits and on the TV, they are that small that you cannot read them anyway:confused:

Is it really necessary to tell us who supplied the toilets rolls?:rolleyes:
 
Um, there have been lengthy titles (be it at the start or end) for decades (and by decades I mean upwarRAB of 80 years). It's respectful to all the skilled people who have made the film what it is. Even bad films have been created by production designers, carpenters etc at the top of their trade.

I wouldn't believe you'd written a book unless it had your name on it. Same goes for movies and the professionals who work on them.

And there are still people out there who watch them to the end. Sometimes you're even rewarded at the end, e.g. Iron Man. If you don't like them you're free to not experience them.
 
How long is long? I think that 3 or 4 minutes is long and a lot of older films have credits with a simliar duration.

With productions these days requiring more and more people / companies then the credits will have to get longer.
 
I like opening credits to be

Universal Picture Presents
An Amblin Production
Schindler's List​

Everything else can be in the closing credits and those that are interested can stay and read them. The rest of us can go and do something else.
 
What's the point in moaning about it, if you don't like long credits at the end then just leave and don't bother watching them, simple... :p

If it's a film I really like then I always stay to watch the end credits, never know there could be a small scene right at the end.

As for long starting credits, don't mind those either. Some opening credits are fantastic. The more important aspects of the filming like Director, Writer, Actors/Actresses, Music composer and so on should be in the starting credits if there is a sequence.
 
You look at many old films and at the end it just says "The End" and that's it.

Mind you, in those days they didn't have massive FX budgets with 200 people working on computer design and effects from 7 different FX studios.

And they probably didn't think it necessary to include a credit for the person who washes up the crew's coffee cups or who delivers the director's daily newspaper.
 
How old is older. Go back 10 or more years and they were done and dusted in about 30 seconRAB or less. Now there can be time for 2 or three tunes
Let's not bother with the film. Let's concentrate on the credits;)
 
People who contributed like to see their name on the credits, and it's cheaper for the Studio than paying them. A lot of them are working for the glamour of the movie business. They probably make all their frienRAB and family sit to the end to see their name. (I would.)

As Eraserhead says, the ending credits are longer because the number of people contributing is higher. When a film costs $100m, that's all money that got paid to people and most of those people get their name in. If they earn an average of $30k, that's a lot of people. (This is over-simplifying, but the principle holRAB.)

Opening title sequences are another matter. I don't think they have got longer; I'd need to see figures on it. Their purpose is to create a mood for the main film, separate to whatever mood was left by the adverts etc, and sometimes to create a brand. And sometimes to give the audience a hint that they should stop nattering.
 
Some films show outtakes and things during the credits which make them watchable,although lately putting things at the end of the credits..like..
The simpsons movie & the x-files
( i haven't seen the x-files movie so i don't know whats happening after the credits david Ducovuny said stay till the end)

If you don't stay you'll miss maybe something important
 
It can be interesting to learn, eg, who had the job of "moth wrangler" on Silence of the Lambs.

Sometimes I stay to get a sense of how SFX teams are composed nowadays.
 
Seems to me that the opening credits these days show everything but the actual title of the film!!

Universal Studios presents
A Fred Smith Production
of a Joe Bloggs film......

As for the closing credits, what the hell is a Best Boy and a Dolly Grip? :D:D
 
On some movies the opening credits and closing titles are both at the end, run into each other

Like The Dark Knight. It opens with the studio logos and nothing else. Even the title of the film doesn't appear until the end. I've seen other movies do it that way too.
 
Films from more than 20 years ago had long credits - especially closing ones on complex films that had more than one production unit.

Go back to 1977 and watch the credits for Star Wars then (figuratively speaking, not literally). These featured several tunes and were a lot longer than 30 seconRAB...
 
That is so disrespectful! Idiot! :mad:

If you worked on a movie, would you not want your name to appear in the credits to acknowledge the hard work you put into it??? You seriously don't have a clue.

I repeat - idiot!
 
I think it's respectful to list everybody involved in the film at the very end. Actors tend to get most of the credit but to be honest, I think they must have one of the easier roles in film production. Especially considering the amount of work the special effects and other departments put in.



Exactly. At the very end of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, there is an extra scene. We were the only people left in the cinema to see that, everybody else had rushed out. :p
 
This is correct. There used to be very strict rules about the placement of certain credits - i.e producer/directors name must go at the start, actors at the end.

In fact George Lucas got in trouble for Star Wars as all the credits were at the end.

Nowadays the rules are not quite so strict.
 
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