I don't know if there is a general opening crawl thread or not, so I thought I'd make one thread to rule them all have all the information in one spot.
I found a small bit about the typesetting of the crawls. It seems there isn't any real consistency between any of them, typographically speaking.
EDIT: I'm adding some pictures for reference. The content and order may change depending on relevancy and discussion.
Jedi has three dots ("...") at the end of its crawl, while all the others have four ("...."), including the prequels.
The Jedi one is grammatically incorrect. Any ellipsis at the end of a sentence needs to be followed by a period, which totals four dots.
I always thought an ellipsis at the end of a sentence replaced the period, totalling three dots.
Keep in mind the source.
In syntax, an aposiopesis arises when the 'if- clause' or protasis of a condition is stated without an ensuing 'then- clause' or apodosis. Because an aposiopesis implies a trailing off of thought, it is never followed by a period, which would effectively result in four dots.
I'll counter your wiki entry with another:
The Chicago Manual of Style suggests the use of an ellipsis for any omitted word, phrase, line, or paragraph from within a quoted passage. There are two commonly used methods of using ellipsis: one uses three dots for any omission, while the second makes a distinction between omissions within a sentence (using three dots: . . .) and omissions between sentences (using a period and a space followed by three dots: . ...). An ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots).
Oh, fuck The Chicago Manual of Style.*
Well, we're not in Chicago, so I say "go sit on it."
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Well, either way, at least one of the crawls are wrong.
xhonzi said:
Well, we're not in Chicago
I am. Does that mean it applies only to me?
Sluggo said:
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While looking for something else, found that on EDITDROID Supplemental 4, they did a recreation of the early crawl. Not sure of their sources, sightly different spacing then the Sluggo recreation being discussed in the SWBegins thread.
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one. They didn't have a decent set of reference materials at the time, so it is a bit off.