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Foxy Brown (1974)

Foxy Brown
It could be your brother too, or your sister, or your children. I want justice for all of them.
—Foxy Brown
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Perhaps one of the most ambitious sequences of the ’70s in B-movies or otherwise, the bombastic titles to Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown employ almost every trick in the title design book, from image rotoscoping and solarization to multi-layered optical animation and colorization.

As with Iginio Lardani’s spaghetti western titles in the ’60s, its presentation is a deliberate and unsubtle homage to Maurice Binder’s early James Bond titles, lending breakout star Pam Grier credibility by association while maintaining a controlled aesthetic all its own. However, unlike Binder’s treatment of women as graphic backdrops for his titles, here the format is flipped on its head, with Foxy Brown front and center as an independent, sexy female lead.

IMAGE: Foxy Brown Main Title Design credits frame

Still from the Foxy Brown opening titles featuring silhouettes of Pam Grier and credits for main title choreography, design, and special optical effects

Few title sequences before or after have gone so far to establish a film’s lead character as an iconic brand, though Quentin Tarantino made a similar — if not far more subdued — effort in his unofficial 1997 sequel, Jackie Brown.

 
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Check out more 1970s B-movie title design in Vigilantes, Psycopaths, and Road Warriors: B-Movie Title Design of the 1970s & 1980s

  • Credits

Main Title and Special Optical Effects: Imagic Inc.

Main Title Choreography: Anita Mann

Music: "Theme of Foxy Brown" by Willie Hutch

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Title sequence

  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    1970s, copyright line, main title, mixed-media
Foxy Brown
  • Film Director

    Jack Hill
  • Release Date

    April 5, 1974
  • Aspect Ratio

    1.85:1
  • Studio

    American International Pictures
  • Country

    USA
  • Language

    English
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

Article

  • Writer

    Ben Radatz
  • Published

    July 18, 2015

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