I love traditional opening credit sequences, something that has literally been slowly going out of style since at least the early sixties and “West Side Story. ” Aside from occasionally providing a bit of final cushion for latecomers, just as I like to know the author of a book I’m reading before I read it, I’d like to know who’s made the movie I’m watching before I see it, not after. Mainly, I just love the way they give us a minute to kind of enter the world of the film in some sort of interesting way.
That’s all well and good, you say, but why lead off with the opening of an obscurity from my childhood like this?
Because I can?
