#pixel fucking

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s Title Sequence

The oil-drenched title sequence that opens David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo includes mesmerizing details from all three of Stieg Larsson’s books about hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander, not just the one upon which the movie is based.

That might seem like an odd choice, but it was intentional.

Blur Studio, the creator of the vivid opening, was given a mandate by Fincher to make the two-and-a-half-minute sequence a conceptual re-creation of Larsson’s full Millennium trilogy — and to completely turn the idea of title sequences on its head.

So what was it like for Miller, who has known Fincher for a while and worked on other projects with him, to create something for a director infamous for his meticulousness? He admits he had fears the Dragon Tattoo intro would get nit-picked — or “pixel-fucked” — to death. But as it turns out, the opening title sequence came together with very few snags.

“It was pretty smooth-flowing,” Miller said.

Never heard of the phrase "pixel-fucked" before but I like it.

[kybernhardt]

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