Markup View

Author: eroock

Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:47:04 AM

* Director Creator/LarsVonTrier loves this trope:
** ''Film/BreakingTheWaves'' has seven chapters and an epilogue introduced with {{Title In}}s on landscape shots.
** ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' has a TwoActStructure which each of the parts named after one of the sisters shown on title cards.
** ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}'' has eight chapters with proper chapter screens before each new section.
* Creator/WesAnderson favors chaptering.
** ''Film/{{Rushmore}}'' is broken down into chapters for each month passing. Opening curtains are used to get into each new chapter.
** ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'' has chapter screens for each of the five parts.
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'' creates suspense by counting down the time to Donnie's death with the use of title cards throughout the movie, e.g. "October 10 1988 (Twenty Days Remain)".
* Kubrick's ''Film/TheShining'' is loosely divided by chapter screens for each new day of the week.
* Each new day in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'' gets its own TitleIn with the name of the weekday.
* Gus Van Sant's ''Film/{{Elephant}}'' comes in twelve chapters each named after and focusing on a different character.
* Argentinian movie ''The Aura'' is broken down in chapters for each weekday, displayed as as TitleIn.
* ''Film/GoneGirl'' has the days counting up on screen as the search for the missing wife progresses, e.g. "July 9th (four days gone)"
* ''Film/{{Ugly}}'' chapters each new the day of the week.
* Each day in ''Film/JeepersCreepers2'' gets its own TitleIn.
* ''Film/TheHunt'' has a TitleIn for each new month as the story progresses.
* ''Film/TheNumber23'' labels each new day on screen.