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True Blood Opening Credits
If you’ve never seen True Blood on HBO, you’re missing out on some amazing opening credits. This sequence is so surreal and well-done, it leaves me disturbed every time I watch it. It’s like a short film. Watch it here, along with a comparison to another film called Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. via boing boing
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November 25th, 2008 - 11:11
Great credits indeed – but it’s all downhill after that.
November 25th, 2008 - 11:17
Well, we’re fans of the show here (it took me a few episodes to get into it). I think it took a while to hit its stride. But different strokes for different folks! :)
Alan Ball really does great opening credits…the Six Feet Under credits were also lovely and disturbing. I enjoy that attention to something that most just ignore.
November 25th, 2008 - 11:45
I made it through about 6 epis before I ditched it. I have a really hard time with horrible southern accents in TV/film – it’s a personal thing I can never get past.
November 25th, 2008 - 12:06
Yes, I was surprised by the various accents on that show. Especially since they all supposedly grew up together. Eventually I had to block it out. Although I could listen to Rene talk all day. I don’t know if his accent was authentic or not (he was the one who really drawled and you almost couldn’t understand him), but I read that he actually paid for his own dialect coach.
November 25th, 2008 - 12:11
LOVE the show. And the credits are one of my favorite parts. I’ve urged people who “aren’t into vampire stuff” to watch the show just for the gorgeous title sequence.
November 25th, 2008 - 13:45
Speaking of opening credits, have you all seen the credits for Dexter? They’re also pretty amazing.
November 25th, 2008 - 13:45
Chuck and I agree about so many things that’s it refreshing when we don’t every once in a while. : )
I really enjoyed the hell out of this show, inconsistent accents and all.
November 25th, 2008 - 13:49
Camille, I can’t watch the Dexter credits — they freak me out.
November 25th, 2008 - 15:10
It’s so odd that you posted about this today, FG, when I just randomly began watching True Blood on demand yesterday and I couldn’t stop!! I watched 5 episodes in a row. I then proceeded to have pretty whack dreams last night but it was totally worth it. I really really like it. It’s not really AS GOOD as Six Feet (one of my top faves of all time), but I also feel like it’s so different that I don’t even want to compare. I find myself laughing outloud so much! He makes a super obvious joke yet pulls it off (“Well, actually, I’m the oldest one here.. heh heh” ) — not usually a haha moment, yet it’s done so funnily that you laugh in spite of yourself. Also the chemistry between the main vamp and Anna Paquin is palpable. I really am enjoying it!!!!!
November 25th, 2008 - 19:11
Nothing is as good as Six Feet Under. It’s truly in a class of its own.
I love the Dexter credits. I think they’re so clever.
November 25th, 2008 - 22:06
@freakgirl
“Yes, I was surprised by the various accents on that show. Especially since they all supposedly grew up together. Eventually I had to block it out. Although I could listen to Rene talk all day. I don’t know if his accent was authentic or not (he was the one who really drawled and you almost couldn’t understand him), but I read that he actually paid for his own dialect coach.”
It is not uncommon to see different dialects in the same town in the south. where i was born there was a lady next door who literally needed a translator to be understood but she went to high school with my dad who did not sound that way. also, my cousins who lived 2 towns over sounded different than we did.
November 25th, 2008 - 23:09
Interesting! I guess it depends on your family.
November 26th, 2008 - 02:40
I love the opening credits. But I think the show has been pretty uneven. The first few episodes didn’t seem much deeper than a soft porn slasher film. I think the last couple of episodes were better. But frankly, I don’t know if I care about season 2 all that much. My husband likes it more than I do, it’s likely he will keep watching it.
November 28th, 2008 - 23:22
Late chiming in, but I just finished a marathon of the whole season, and I quite liked it, but was also kind of annoyed by the accents, probably because part of my family is from Louisiana. Rene definitely sounded the most like a Cajun (or “coonass” as they sometimes refer to themselves), but that accent isn’t all that common in most of Louisiana. (And the New Orleans accent definitely sounds different than the rest of Louisiana.) But to me the worst accent was Tara’s. Listening to her was like nails on a chalkboard for me…
But in all, none of the characters sounds as bad as Kyra Sedgewick on “The Closer,” so there’s that.