The title sequence starts with an aerial view of a plate of chicken nuggets, with tomato ketchup around the edges spelling out one of the production companies "Fox Searchlight Pictures". A bird tweeting is heard in the background which I believe shows the simplicity of the title sequence. This tweeting is then taken over by music which begins to become up beat which creates more of a bouncy atmosphere, raising the mood.
We are then show a view of the character 'Napoleon Dynamite' opening up his wallet and taking out his different membership cards which includes a "U.F.O abduction insurance card" and also his school I.D card which helps to show us who the main character is and what he looks like. From this scene we can also tell that the main character is quite geeky as he is into U.F.O's and aliens. The school I.D card also shows the setting of where the film is as it says the name of the school and its location "Preston High" "Preston, Idaho".
There are other plates of food placed out onto old fashioned carpet which state some of the crew and their jobs in the film. By using the old fashioned carpet in the background, we can have a slight guess of the time that this film is set in which is the 1980's. By looking at the foods that are laid out, all of them are junk foods which could connote that the main character is a teenager as teenagers are mainly known for eating junk foods and not having anything healthy to eat.We then see a ninja star thrown which again shows that the main character is quite geeky and also childish as he is playing around with things that mainly children play with. This goes along with library books and drawings of his made up fantasies. This continues the character's geeky ways.
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