The Art of the Title Sequence

True Blood

What it is to be reborn.

A closed-mouthed catfish and cheery gator serve as an aquatic admission into a place that suffers the rot of intolerance and blackish baptisms. Stick shacks sulk under Spanish moss. Jace Everett's song "Bad Things" plucks and coos over the risque and the religious imagery of Alan Ball's title sequence for True Blood contextualizing the slutty and the sweet swamp-goth vampiric mise-en-scène.

Elements of this sequence have been compared to elements of Andrew Douglas' mesmeric, stunning, one of a kind film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Art of the Title's intention in providing the opening to Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is pure. It is very good southern surrealist cinema.

WRITER: Alexander Ulloa
LAST UPDATE: August 16, 2011
© Art of the Title, 2011

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Video Extra iconSearching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - Opening Scene

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Video Extra iconDigital Kitchen’s True Blood Featurette (contains nudity)

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