Movie Titles

The first movie title I looked at was from the 1984 classic Terminator. After a brief scene showing the chaotic war against the machines in the year 2029 and a short description of what exactly how this came to be, the title scene begins. The entire title scene is battle music playing while the letters which spell Terminator cross across the screen backwards, so that the R-O-T-A-N come from left to right, and the T-E-R-M-I come from right to left. Initially, it is unclear what the letters are doing, or if the images on screen are even letters. However, by the end, the camera zooms out and The TERMINATOR is clearly written. Although the graphics are from 1984, you can tell it was the directors effort to make them look as high tech and futuristic as possible since the movie is suppose be about a war taking place in the future. Also, I feel that the letters are a similar representation of the movie because they are unclear to the viewer until the very end, which is similar to this movie. The answers to the audience's questions are not fully revealed until the end of the movie.