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SELECTED BYBRIAN COLLINSSUPERMAN TITLE SEQUENCEDESIGNED BYRICHARD GREENBERG
“This is no fantasy—no careless product of wild imagination ... No, my friends, these are matters of undeniable fact.” So speaks Marlon Brando in the first minutes of Richard Donner’s 1978 film, Superman.
The design of the opening credits delivered on this promise, instantly transforming a dusty children’s comic into a stirring American myth. In a blaze of flying blue typography amplified by John Williams’s thundering, triumphant score, Superman arrives as a hero of epic proportions.
In mere seconds, this design accomplishes a major feat. Beyond setting the tone for what is to come by establishing a new emotional expectation for the audience, the opening sequence ...
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