Psychological Romance Credit Sequences Analysis

 Phantom Thread - (2017, Dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson)

In the credit sequences from Phantom Thread, it creates a very elegant, clean, ending for the film. As the font is quite similar to the one I'm currently using, it is still more prominent into creating a very crisp and tidy look for the film. The music also supports this image of elegancy due to the slow piano music playing in the back. There are blues and yellows that create a soft touch for the end of the film. As you see a woman that takes a deep sigh after slowly being assisted to take of some of the layers of her dress, it creates an intimate and slow emotion for the end. 

Black Swan (2010, Dir. Darren Aronofsky)

Black Swan's end credits consists of an the main character on a cushion after taking the dramatic fall at the end of the ballet show, breathing heavy, disassociating with her instructor and the other people part of her dance studio. The overall of thus movie especially the end credits, involve white or black, no in between which keeps the contrast throughout the movie pushing until the end. When the main character is laying down, the expression on her face says so many words and emotions at the same time. The music also adds to the intensity of this scene, as she feels the accomplishment after going through so much only to also feel the disappointment deep down. For the credit sequence, an eerie, strange sound continues to play as the end credits are rolling. Throughout this part of the movie, we are presented to the actors and important names of the film as an all white screen with black petals are in the background. The font they use is a very simplistic, regular sized, thicker font. This still manages to show how much light the character had in her only for the darkness to slowly fall into her mentality, causing to overtake it all. 

The Lobster (2015, Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

In the end scene/credits of The Lobster, we see a man and a woman sitting down at a restaurant while the man is asking the woman to check specific parts of her body such as her hands, elbows, and also asking her to smile. She briefly explains to him how he won't feel certain part of what seems to be an activity...she continues to tell him "it's strange at first, but then you get used to it." We are then shown a hallway that leads to the bathroom where the man takes a steak knife, stuffs his mouth with a towel, and hold up the steak knife to his eye for a minute and 23 seconds, without an actual response or visible action of if he actually did or or not. Then the camera pans to the woman waiting at the table, this is shown for an entire minute and 6 seconds. The ending of this film that builds up to the simplicity of the credits, by elongating these important shots that carry weight in order to get an actual response of what could have happened or not. These build tension but manage to die quickly, such as for the end credits that are explained in the most simple, normal, mediocre font in white with a simple, plain black screen. This created a calming atmosphere for the viewer after the were probably assuming and jumping to different conclusions of what could have actually happened between the long duration of some shots.