RESEARCH - ANALYSING DEADPOOL TITLE SEQUENCE

Art of the title 4 - Deadpool (2016)

http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/deadpool/

"The opening notes of Juice Newton’s adult contemporary classic “Angel of the Morning” drown out what are sure to be the final screams of some extremely unlucky hired goons. Here, frozen in time, in the back seat of an exploding Cadillac Escalade, a hyper-violent tableau takes shape. In what can only be described as some unholy marriage of the Three Stooges and a Michael Bay movie, battered bodies fly in all directions, engulfed in a shower of spit, blood, and broken glass. Guns are fired. Eyes are gouged. Tea is bagged. This is Deadpool… or rather it’s our introduction to Deadpool, the masked mutant in the middle of all that death and debris — the guy deftly executing the wedgie to end all wedgies.

From the moment the first credit appears on screen, it’s clear the Deadpool opening title sequence is designed for one thing and one thing only: to gleefully take the piss out of the entire proceedings. In a world where star Ryan Reynolds is at once People’s 2010 “Sexiest Man Alive” and Wade Wilson — the chimichanga-craving Marvel Comics antihero with a penchant for breaking the fourth wall — it’s appropriate for Blur Studio’s opening to acknowledge the fact that it is a title sequence in a movie. Full of sly (and not-so-sly) nods to comic book fans and self-reflexive title cards that say what we’re all really thinking, there is no way to come away from the Deadpool opening sequence without knowing full well what you’re about to get into."

- This shows that the director/producer has deliberately created this 'piss take' to be    original and witty. As the director/producer has said it in the paragraph above, it is    not something people will expect... it is definitely portrayed as a unique and                spectacular super hero movie.

This film is about a normal man who somehow has his life taken away from by getting summoned to be experimented on which makes him immortal... He is conceived as a cocky but dangerous and specialist type warrior who lives his short but heroic (in his own way) life defeating the 'bad guys' finding a cure to turn him back to who he was to resume his life with his Fiance.

The credits has been displayed in a very unique and creative way; as Deadpool is a very different film to others, the director has used his comedic side to him by using witty captions instead of the actors' names. For example, rather than "Ryan Reynolds" the animator used 'A British Villain' which in my opinion is very unique and used intelligently as it matches the comedic moral of the film. 

•      Director: Tim Miller

•      Studio: Marvel, Twentieth Century Fox

•      Producer: Abbey Keller

     The Mise en Scene of the film opening displays the wittiness of the whole film by using a creative method of descriptive captions and also the extreme slow motion frames. The frames presents a small picture which moves in slow motion with calm and traditional music which could be classed as classical. This completely contradicts what the film is about which makes the film significant; It couldn't be more unique.

      The audience is attracted mainly because it is seen as a spoof of hero films which contradicts Marvel although it is a change and many people like this (including me). Also, the fact that Ryan Reynolds is playing the main actor - which is DEADPOOL Himself - draws the attention of the audience as supporters (of him as an actor) which gets many people to watch it due to him being a very famous actor.

In the interview between Tim Miller (director) and Franck Balson (from Blur Studio), Tim identified that the writers loved the clever idea of stupid titles instead of names in the Intro credits. It not only gave the film originality but was quite funny... 'God's perfect idiot' for example; Because it came across witty, it linked in with the purpose of the film very well.