Comments on: Panic Room

By: Kay Ban

Kay Ban — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:46:00 +0000

its style is very simillar with the movie title sequence of ‘moon’, isn’t it?

By: Jamie Dressel

Jamie Dressel — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:41:28 +0000

The typeface and its color remind me of money…those buildings cost big bucks to construct, and having the means to build a panic room in your dwelling would be very expensive. And…wasn’t the movie basically about a burglary? Maybe I’m over thinking this title sequence?

By: jackie boy

jackie boy — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:09:22 +0000

arent these inspired by North by North Wests?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:32:45 +0000

Great movie, great sequence.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:42:53 +0000

North by Northwest, updated to be the 21st century. Love it.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:40:03 +0000

Amazing typography and the shots of the city are gorgeous.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:21:14 +0000

this title sequence always seemed odd to me in the context of the film. it’s almost as though they decided to produce it ‘because they could’. Though the bg shots do set up NYC nicely, the sequence seems more attuned to something like Spiderman. It is a decent juxtaposition in that virtually the rest of the film is indoors.. but static text on the backgrounds would probably have worked.. and saved a lot of time spent 3d tracking.

By: brian valentine

brian valentine — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:13:30 +0000

i always marvel at fincher’s title sequences. and the movie itself had spurts of greatness. the broad and airy expanse of each building stands completely contradictory to the claustrophobic nature of the movie. i approve.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:12:57 +0000

I think it’s fairly safe to credit this title sequence to Kevin Tod Haug, one of David Fincher’s regular visual effects guys. He spoke at Northwestern University’s Block Cinema a couple years ago and showed a reel that included this sequence.

I also think it’s safe to assume that he admires the work of Saul Bass and considered this sequence a sort of homage to North by Northwest.

By: rrryan

rrryan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:59:14 +0000

It was all downhill after the title sequence.

This was especially great to see on the big screen. Unfortunately it lost a lot of punch when viewed at home. Copperplate wouldn’t have been my first typeface choice, but I suppose it lends itself to 3D extrusion and shadowing, etc.

As mentioned above, Fringe has tried to incorporate the same effect. But it’s not nearly as nice (they don’t have Fincher’s eye, or his budget apparently).