Needs an image: Storybook Opening

I'd suggest something from Super Mario Galaxy.

Fractured Fairy Tales◊, from Bullwinkle.

edited 24th Jan '11 6:55:08 AM by Madrugada

How about something from the opening to the Disney version of Jungle Book?

Or Winnie The Pooh [1]◊ for Classic Disney?

Looks too much like a regular book.

I picked a screenshot from The Jungle Book but I think it's best people look at the context to decide which frame of animation best suits the page.

There's nothing to indicate that's the opening of a movie, though. It's just a picture of a book opening.

We should see if someone will do one with the T Vtropes name on it.

I disagree. The book says The Jungle Book on both its cover and the first page. Since The Jungle Book is also a work, it seems like it's the opening of the movie.

Though perhaps a better freeze frame could be made from the scene. If nothing else can be found, I'm voting this as the best image so far

"Though perhaps a better freeze frame could be made from the scene." - Tony

Yeah, that's why I linked to it. I suppose I could do the upload-as-many-frames-as-possible thing I did with a Frollo scene earlier on, though.

This also may not be obviously a picture of a movie opening, but tossing it out. Also it's not a very straight example, stuff spills out of the book to make the story world; it isn't a crossfade.

Doesn't look like an opening at all; looks more like someone opened a book and is about to get sucked in/something's about to come out.

Wouldn't this one be pretty hard to portray with a still image?

The opening screens of the Shrek movies come to mind.

Do you mean the donkey? @ The Pope

(EDIT: As in, is that another one of that movie's "ass" puns?)

edited 25th Jan '11 8:14:34 AM by neoYTPism

I like the sequence, but there should probably be some blank space between the panels...as it is, the first two kinda run together.

edited 25th Jan '11 4:41:51 PM by Willbyr

There's nothing to indicate that's the opening of a movie, though. It's just a picture of a book opening.

Yeah but on the other hand, it is exactly what the trope use ends up looking like.

There are only two ways I can think of demostrating "opening of a movie".

• Put in every storyboard of the movie after that first image so that it is clearly the first of many. Technically the only rules are about image width and pushing the text down. There's nothing about having 1003 of them.

• Find one where the book is displayed while the title card is up. If this happens with The Jungle Book maybe we could get a joke in the caption about how the movie's opening credits were accompanied by pictographs.

Did anyone look at the opening of Fractured Fairy Tales I suggested in the second post?

In my opinion, that is way better than no image.

I like Fractured Fairy Tales.

edited 26th Jan '11 8:02:09 AM by shimaspawn

Maybe something from the intro to Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door? 1:50 is what I was thinking, but other frames may work better.

Incidentally, the article claims every Paper Mario game begins like this, but the first Paper Mario distinctly does not.

edited 26th Jan '11 9:08:08 AM by petrie911

Still images please. I don't see any one frame that would show this well.

That just looks like a normal book, in part because it's just them filming the mass produced Winnie The Pooh book.