Title Research: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

There are 29 titles displayed during the title sequence of the movie. The images that are prioritized during the opening sequence of the film are many dark images portrayed as being tortured. The shapes are shaped as human beings and you can see some of the features. Some of these features that you can see are the human mouth, eyes, hair, arms, legs and the rest of the body. Some of the torture things that you see are the people being bounded by a mouth gag, people being burned alive, and also eyes being burned. These images bring out the audience's curiosity. It does this by showing some of the torturing devices being used and having the audience wondering what is going to happen in the movie. It makes the audience wonder what leads to such devices of torture and it also has the audience questioning what the movie's details entail. Not only does it bring out the curiosity of the audience, but it also creates a sense of suspense through the way the titles are being displayed on the screen and the gory images on the screen. These things combined brings our the mystery genre of the film.
The genre is reinforced through the symbolic and technical codes from the opening sequence through the ways the titles were placed on the film and by the font the titles were in. The titles seemed to be slammed on to the opening sequence and were moving sort of fast like they were running away from something. This leaves the audience with a suspenseful attitude, thinking about what is going to happen in the film. Not only are the way the titles are placed giving a suspenseful feeling to the audience, but the font the titles are placed in is a font that would be the titles of newspapers. Mystery genres usually have something to do with finding out something through the use of news articles and then investigating it which gives the film this mysterious feel. The images are another way that shows the mysterious nature of the film. The torturing of the people show that there is going to be some type of crime in the film that will be investigated. This connects the font of the titles to the pictures showing that both of them work together in order to give the film the mysterious sense to fit the genre. Not only does the fonts and the titles play an important role reinforcing the mysterious side of the film, but the music does as well. The music works well with the titles and the images by enhancing the feeling of mystery from both the title and images.
The film establishes an enigma of the film by the images. The images of the film are very difficult to understand. They start with an eye burning and goes on to show people splitting apart and looking like they are screaming. This leaves the audience puzzled because they do not know what is going on in the film. Not only is enigma established by that image, but the image with the shadowed figure blindfolded has the audience questioning why the image is blindfolded and what purpose does this show in the film. The techniques that that is used in the opening sequence of the movie that attracts the attended audience are the lighting of the images being displayed and the music of the title sequence. The lighting the images are being placed in is a very dark lighting. This lighting causes a ominous feeling that attracts a more adventurous audience that would want to explore the things that the images portray.Technology has been used effectively by the different editing techniques used. The editing used includes the fastness of the images coming on and off the screen, the way the music goes along with each image moving along the screen. The effects of the eye burning and the people splitting apart also enhances the genre of the movie. The bodies melting away like candle wax and then re-emerging from the ground into a solid form give the movie that mysterious and suspenseful sense. It makes the audience wonder what’s about to happen in the movie.
All of the these things that I have spoken about enhances and brings out the mysterious genre of the movie.