Both films conform to the expectations of a title sequence by:
- Introducing a protagonist
- Establishing a narrative
- Drawing the audience in
How are they similar?
- Both openings immediately challenge the American Dream through narrative
- Both openings feature a voice-over
- Both openings start at the end
- Both openings work hard to establish character, mood, tone, pace and thematics (The thematics being: dysfunctional families, destruction, anarchy, consumerism, power, control and most importantly subverting the Dream).
Both protagonists (Jack, Fight Club and Lester, American Beauty) are disfuntional, imprisoned, dissatisfied. On the face of it the two opening sequences look completely different, the cinematography in Fight Club is nothing like the cinematography in American Beauty. The score/soundtrack is different also, but these openings both take the audience on a journey through the characters and their mindsets.
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