Classic Opening Scenes To A Film

[Captain Haddock]

I'll start:

Italian Job (original). Anonymous driver peels around mountain road to the tune of Matt Monro's classy "On Days Like These"...and then...

 

[unnameable]

The drowning of the little girl in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. (The final scene is even better.)

 

[Badger]

2001

Don't need to say much more

 

[logan89]

The last boy scout, saw it the other day, the opening scene sets the stage for the whole film.

It's the american football match in the rain where the star players has a gun concealed and then shoots himself in the head. Lasts about 10 mins but made me want to watch the rest of the film.

 

[Easy 10]

Ooh, good thread. Two that spring to mind for me:

Cliffhanger - where Sly is desperately trying to save that bints life. I was genuinely SHOCKED when her glove slipped off and she plunged to her death, made my blood run cold that did. (Theres a superb spoof of this in Ace Ventura 2, when Jim Carrey plays out the same scene, but with a raccoon).

Blade - Wesley Snipes wipes out a nightclub full of vampires who were showering in blood. Its just cool, is all.

 

[Muzzman]

Alien

 

[Easy 10]

Alien doesn't open with the creature bursting from his chest though. Thats about 45 minutes in.

 

[Jimbo26]

Jaws !!!

 

[The Large One]

Pretty much any James Bond film.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Breakfast at Tiffany's - an absolute classic

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

The last boy scout, saw it the other day, the opening scene sets the stage for the whole film.

It's the american football match in the rain where the star players has a gun concealed and then shoots himself in the head. Lasts about 10 mins but made me want to watch the rest of the film.

A classic film, with some classic lines!

 

[Simster]

Pulp Fiction

 

[Easy 10]

"any of you f***ing pricks MOVE, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you !"

 

[surrey jim]

I'll start:

Italian Job (original). Anonymous driver peels around mountain road to the tune of Matt Monro's classy "On Days Like These"...and then...

when i saw the thread title that was the film i immedialy thought of, great opening and great film

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

"any of you f***ing pricks MOVE, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you !"

It's pigs, not pricks isn't it?

 

[Easy 10]

Nope. Definitely pricks.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_58YdwEKkZY&NR=1

 

[Stat Brother]

Which ever Bond was on, on Saturday (bad fan - work).
Moore skiing now looks horribly dated but when he goes over the edge of the cliff, in silence, then the union jack shoot opens to the Bond theme. Pure class.

I always cheer, it makes me proud to be English.

 

[Captain Haddock]

How about the opening to Once Upon A Time In The West.

Three grimy characters wait for a train in the heat, complete with chance appearance of fly buzzing about on the face of one of the men. Superbly tense, curious and atmospheric start to one of the greatest Spaghetti Westerns of them all.

(Did you know: Spag' Westerns are called Macaroni Westerns in Japan!)

 

[Captain Haddock]

Which ever Bond was on, on Saturday (bad fan - work).
Moore skiing now looks horribly dated but when he goes over the edge of the cliff, in silence, then the union jack shoot opens to the Bond theme. Pure class.

I always cheer, it makes me proud to be English.

Good call ....and I can't remember which one it is either!

 

[Robot Chicken]

The opening shot of Snake Eyes, which goes on for 10 minutes uninterrupted. The film itself isn't brilliant but the opening shot is technically fantastic.