I’m a big follower of the Showtime TV series Dexter, currently airing its final season. For the past year I’ve been rescreening the entire run, posting a running series of notes to twitter under hashtag #dexternotes (see the archive in The Nest), and my next personal reading project is to catch up with Lindsay’s Dexter book series (the program is a fascinating study in adaptation, as it departs wildly from the books) in preparation for the upcoming release of a new title, ironically called Dexter’s Final Cut (releasing end of August 2013 on Kindle and in mid-Sept in hardcover). As a fan, I’ve become somewhat impatient this season with waiting each week for the next episode, so when I’m not otherwise rewatching older seasons (the one with Lithgow is my favorite) I research Dexter fan postings on the internet.
Here, without further ado, are my favorite remakes and riffs on Dexter’s now CLASSIC opening sequence. There are a lot of remakes of this out there, as students of film study and reproduce it, and fans come up with clever parodies. These are my faves:
This Really is Dexter in 60 Seconds:
http://youtu.be/WM5_pac-4Is
Dogster
http://youtu.be/NArGzruaiEQ
Clever Approach to a School Assignment
http://youtu.be/pCF-AWJ7NJo
From The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror:
http://youtu.be/CAqH8HOBjno
Dexter Intro in Heavy Metal:
http://youtu.be/kt7cmmd6CKU
Clever Parody by Jack’s Films
http://youtu.be/Fox57HqOhEM
Dexterized Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8SczknsHQ
And here’s just the cool re-imagining of the opening credits by poster-creator, Ty Mattson:
http://youtu.be/n9adZ0HRuo4
Thanks for collecting these great links, Prof Arnzen! As for your statement re: adaptation… you probably know that the show producers don’t consider anything except the first season an “adaptation.” They basically bought the rights to the character and “world,” but according to what they say at Cons, don’t even read the books. But I guess it depends on what the true meaning of adaptation is and/or how far it can be stretched…