I have always been a big fan of movie titles, albeit open­ing cred­its, those of TV-Show’s, (some) end­ing title; and this one’s no exception.

WALL·E was an instant favorite for being uniquely rich, sim­ple, con­trast to main movie’s fea­ture ani­ma­tion style yet it tells a con­clud­ing story and noble mes­sage to our mod­ern soci­ety: We will be all right.

Jim Capobianco:

Unlike our cred­its in the past, the main goal of the cred­its was to fin­ish the story. To com­mu­ni­cate that the humans were going to be okay. They would sur­vive. It became a bal­anc­ing act of telling the sur­vival story, using art his­tory to do it and to make sure things weren’t too dis­tract­ing from the names themselves

To refresh your mem­ory here’s the sequence in discussion:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB9FltZf_70[/youtube]

WALL·E end title sequence + Jim Capobianco & Alex Woo inter­view

If you’re inter­ested, here’s some bril­liant TV Show Title Sequence selected by Smashing Magazine. My favorite is Six Feet Under & House M.D.

(via kottke.org)