5. Catch Me If You Can
The credits to Steven Spielbergs Catch Me If You Can sum up pretty much everything that makes the movie so appealing; it is stylistic, elegant and fun. The sequence is an animated representation of the loose premise of the movie, as the animated version of Tom Hanks gives chase to Leonardo DiCaprio. The chase leads the two through various locations as the animated DiCaprio goes to ridiculous lengths to avoid his inevitable capture; it is an excellent way to set the audience up for whats to come. The art design plays a big part in making-thus sequence so effective-a clear throwback to the 60s, the era in which the films is set, everything flows into one. This is aided by the credit style as letters from each credit is extended into the next and the colours change with each new costume. Along with excellently composed-and suitably 60s Jazz inspired score by John Williams- it all works and is the perfect opening for this film, I cant imagine it being done any better. What make all of this truly surprising is that the artist that created the sequence allegedly had not seen anything of the film itself, instead the based there design on the Catch Me If You Can book, as well as the look and feel of the late 60s. If true there is likely no greater proof of how well the artist and Spielberg did of recapturing the era.