Talk:Star Wars opening crawl

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Contents 1 External links 2 1977 Crawl 3 Category 4 Opening crawl of Episode VI only has a three-dot ellipsis (…) 5 More general article?

[edit] External links

I've deleted most of the external links because this article is about the crawls in Star Wars, not Star Wars itself. I only left the link to Star Wars' official website. Please, no link spam, only corresponding links to the topic! --Thorri 14:21, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1977 Crawl

Perhaps someone should post the text of the 1977 Star Wars crawl, or at least note how it differs from the ANH crawl. --68.41.122.213 22:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the original Star Wars, before the ANH titling. If anyone does, any changes should be noted. --myselfalso 00:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category

Does this article really belong to the Category:Monomyths. Star Wars itself is a monomyth, but this?.. --Koveras 12:54, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Since there has been no objection, I remove it from the category. --Koveras 18:32, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opening crawl of Episode VI only has a three-dot ellipsis (…)

I'm watching Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi on DVD right now, and I noticed that, unlike the other five movies, the end of the crawl only has a three-dot ellipsis instead of a four-dot one. I also seem to remember that the original version of the movie only has a three-dot one as well; it's not just the DVD one. —OneofThem^(talk)_(contribs) 14:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I took the liberty of changing the Episode VI crawl text article accordingly. If anyone finds any reasonable objection or proof against this, feel free to revert. —OneofThem^(talk)_(contribs) 13:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CCAN GET THE FONTS? ? -Brian

[edit] More general article?

Are Star Wars and Flash Gordon really the only movies to get away with playing this straight and not as a parody? Admittedly, Star Wars did do it pretty distinctively.

Also: if the article doesn't get deleted, possibly say something about how almost all Star Wars-license games also include textcrawls as a homage/tradition; as well as a few of the books.

Also, if not the slanted scrolling version, a lot of films do open or close with on-screen prose, despite it being kind of odd in a visual medium. (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is one example.) --DocumentN 03:13, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I will have to find the reference again ("Serials" by Stedman, I think) but several Universal serials used the opening crawl (starting with The Phantom Creeps) - they were trying to "fix" have straight text on screen and later went on to forced scripted scenes where Character A tells Character B what's happened so far. When I get verfiable information I'll edit it into the Origins section. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 13:45, 30 January 2008 (UTC)