Napoleon Dynamite! This is a film you may not have seen. It's a Teen Comedy based around the bizarre and hilarious life of mega-nerd 'Napoleon.' Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it already.
I'm not doing any specific textual analysis, more just pointing out key themes and ideas that stuck out for me when watching this film opening.
This may well be the most creative title sequence I have ever seen. Its hypnotising!! The clever thing is, it not just nice to watch. It gives you all the relevant information you need at this point in the film. We get some hints about the main character by being presented with his student card, the contents of his wallet, and a few other objects typically associated with a 'nerdy' character. A sense of the tone and the Comedy genre is clearly established through the use of music, and the ever more obscene variety meals, drawings, and other random objects placed in front of us. Clearly, the story is told purely through visuals, not dialogue. This is a common theme I seem to see a lot of throughout my research. It seems to me that the main challenge of making an opening would be to incorporate the necessary information, whilst remaining subtle (ie not just telling the audience everything through dialogue.)
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