The liminal design of opening sequences, Top Gun and Henry V
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- In 1939 the film Gone with the Wind opens with epic music and sweeping footage of bucolic vistas to set the stage for a highly romanticized version of the old south
- With Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) a model that used opening credits to introduce a collage of theme and tone was set
The opening sequence of TOP GUN stands out as a liminal masterpiece, leading us resolutely from a handful of oversalted popcorn in a darkened room, to the makebelief world of its heavy handed comme [+13549 chars]
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