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''Star Wars'' is an American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas. The opening crawl is the signature device featured in every film of the series. It opens with the static blue text, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....", followed by the ''Star Wars'' logo and the crawl text, which describes the backstory and context of the film. The visuals are accompanied by the "Main Title Theme", composed and conducted by John Williams. The sequence has been featured in every live-action ''Star Wars'' film produced by Lucasfilm. Although it retains the basic elements, it has significantly evolved throughout the series. It is one of the most immediately recognizable elements of the franchise and has been frequently parodied. ==Structure== Each film opens with the static blue text, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....", followed by the ''Star Wars'' logo shrinking in front of field of stars. Initially the logo's extremities are beyond the edge of the frame. While the logo is retreating, the "crawl" text begins, starting with film's episode number and subtitle (with the exception of the original release of ''Star Wars'' – see below), and followed by a three-paragraph prologue to the film. The text scrolls up and away from the bottom of the screen towards a vanishing point above the top of the frame in a perspective projection. Each version of the opening crawl ends with a four-dot ellipsis, except for ''Return of the Jedi'' which has a three-dot ellipsis. When the text has nearly reached the vanishing point, it fades out, and the camera tilts down and the film begins.〔''Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' DVD commentary〕 ''Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' is the only film in which the camera tilts up after the crawl. Two typefaces are used in the text, both in yellow: News Gothic for the episode number and main body of the text, and Univers for the title of the film. Several words are in all-capital letters to stress their importance: "DEATH STAR" in ''A New Hope'', "GALACTIC EMPIRE" in ''Return of the Jedi'', and "ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC" in ''Attack of the Clones''. Each line of the text spans the width of the screen when it enters from the bottom. In the "fullscreen" (4:3 aspect ratio for standard-definition television) versions of the films, the full lines of text are cut off on the sides until they have scrolled further onto the screen. As a result, by the time the full lines are visible, the text is much smaller and harder to read. In addition, the viewer also has less time to read it. The animated ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' is the only theatrically released Star Wars film that does not feature an opening crawl, but instead features a narration of the past events over several clips. The narration (provided by Tom Kane) is meant to evoke World War II newsreels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Wars opening crawl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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