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The Dreamers (2003)

The Dreamers
Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be beautiful.
—Matthew
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Title Designer RICHARD MORRISON:

As a creative, I find the idea is always the key and the means to do it is a secondary matter. Because of the nature of The Dreamers – its plot and timing – I wanted this sequence to look organic, just like in the old days. So I just started piecing visually abstract elements together, like in a puzzle, and decided to completely abandon any complex animation effects. It just did not fit in with the essence of the movie.

To preserve that ‘old school’ feel I worked as if everything was completely optical. You see, in the past you just could not see things in real time. And this had a tremendous impact on your pace of work, accuracy, thought process, and the whole approach really. You had to be a better planner. You had to be a master of accuracy. Everything you were doing was in real scale – very physical. You could not just press ‘delete’ and start over. By creating this sequence in this way I really had a genuine belief that this would actually work. Luckily, it did.

And so the main idea I applied was to use the Eiffel Tower as the background – for the interaction of the tower’s 3D shapes with graphically explored elements such as the typeface and colours. This, combined with the application of a continuous vertical camera pan, produced something of a lasting and very specific effect. I think most people now recognize The Dreamers just by that quite memorable title sequence.

  • Credits

Title Designer: Richard Morrison

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Title sequence

  • Title Designer

    Richard Morrison
  • Category

    Film
  • Styles

    live action, main title, mixed-media, typographic
The Dreamers
  • Film Director

    Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Release Date

    October 10, 2003
  • Aspect Ratio

    1.85:1
  • Studio

    Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • Country

    UK
  • Languages

    English, French
  • Reviews

    Reviews on Letterboxd
  • IMDb has full details

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