Favorite Opening Credits - Part 3 (More Viewer Requests!)
It's time for another installment of Favorite Opening Credits, in which yours truly searches the World Wide Web for the best opening sequences in movie and TV history!
In the first two parts of this series, readers suggested some of their favorites, which I have provided below. (I wish I could have found more of them, but it seems to be getting harder and harder.)
Elf (For Kat C)
West Side Story (For Nick Leshi)
And Happy Days for Nick too
(Takes me back to my high school days! The 50's were really big in the 70's.)
The X-Files (For cave_canem)
Se7en (For Sheldon the Wonderhorse)
Miller's Crossing (For Craig Johnson)
And now, a few of my own...
Help!
Inherit The Wind
The Third Man
The Trouble With Angels
And remember, I'm always taking requests!
See Part One and Part Two in the series.
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Ted Frier
Diana Senechal
Working Class Heroes
Bob Simpson
Kanuk
nanatehay
Salon.com
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Amelie. I don't know how to make the cool link.
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When you did this before, did To Kill a Mockingbird come up? That's one of my all-time favorites.
And having mentioned it recently, I'll suggest The Big Lebowski titles, in part because they aren't what you'd expect.
And now I want to see Trouble with Angels again. OESheepdog mentioning Ida Lupino in my blog rang that bell, too.
Fun posts these, Jeanette.
Thanks everyone, for all of the great ideas so far.
Silkstone, I had wanted to include the opening credits for To Kill a Mockingbird in Part 1 of this series, but all I could find on YouTube were some various alternate versions that people had done themselves, with different music, etc. (I was amazed at how much I ran into this sort of thing on YouTube. Who knew?)
And, as you can see, quite a few of these vids are just the first 10 minutes of the entire movie. People upload movies this way onto YouTube a lot, in 10-minute segments. And also, when I go back and check some of my older blogs, the videos I had originally posted have sometimes been removed from YouTube.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/graphic-content-film-at-first-sight/?hp
Nice to see some class on the cover!
The all-time, number one, best credits I've ever seen are for the Prisoner (60s version). See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E
I also really like the ones for Charade -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGDjwxRwpI -- and Spartacus -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdos02NooVI
For a long time, that theme haunted me. It ran through my head for weeks! And yes, I would wager a guess there aren't too many other movie themes build around the zither.
I've always liked the cartoon cowboy sequence used for the "City Slickers" opening credits.
And on an utterly different note, I've always been a sucker for the opening credits for "Mary, Queen of Scots" in which Vanessa Redgrave and a handsome young man as Mary and her husband, the King of France, go for a sunrise frolic in the gardens of Chenonceau to a John Barry score. Ah, the stuff of romance! You can bet that when I finally visited Chenonceau these opening credits were all I could think of.