Classic Opening Scenes To A Film

[London Calling]

Lawrence of Arabia

and

double penetration extreme close up....................

 

[Icy Gull]

Toss up between Gladiator and 2001 (especially on a cinema screen)

 

[Les Biehn]

Narc
Fight Club - amazing credit sequence.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

For heavens sake EVERYONE

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

EVERYONE knows the best ever start to a film is the start to

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

The music builds up , the tention builds up and then there is a huge explosion of blinding light .

It is pure genious.

 

[Les Biehn]

Oh shut up.

 

[Eggmundo]

Withnail and I:
King Curtis' haunting rendition of "whiter Shade of Pale" as the camera focuses on Marwood chewing his nails while puffing away nervously on a fag cum doobie. His eyes ablaze with paranoia.
Class.

 

[Eggmundo]

And definitely not War of the Worlds, that's for sure.

 

[Staypuft]

Carlitos Way

 

[The Large One]

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

...is the right answer.

 

[The Large One]

You don't know anything about films, Glubber.

 

[Les Biehn]

Carlitos Way

'rehabilitated, reinvigorated, reassimilated'

Genius

 

[Icy Gull]

...is the right answer.

Only if the the thread title was Most menacing opening to a film, possibly. It's hardly the best overall though.

 

[Staypuft]

'rehabilitated, reinvigorated, reassimilated'

Genius

Class film all round.

I really want to go to that party the Sean Penn was having.

 

[perseus]

Dixon of Dock Green (the original film) when Dixon gets killed.

But he still kept the part until he was well past his sell-by date.

 

[Pevenseagull]

First time I saw it I was suitably grabbed by the opening to Blade Runner

 

[The Large One]

Only if the the thread title was Most menacing opening to a film, possibly. It's hardly the best overall though.

Most menacing
Most tense
Quietest
Most arrid
Closest-up
Longest ?

Then followed by the Main Theme, a beautiful piece...

Most of that surely goes some way towards being the best?

 

[Les Biehn]

Class film all round.

I really want to go to that party the Sean Penn was having.

'You a gangster now Dave'

 

[Icy Gull]

Most menacing
Most tense
Quietest
Most arrid
Closest-up
Longest ?

Then followed by the Main Theme, a beautiful piece...

Most of that surely goes some way towards being the best?

Take your point and it is a brilliant film from start to finish but 2001 covers the dawn of man, the first realisation that a weapon brings power,the grimmest and most realistic killing scene that I have seen and the changing of a bone in flight into a spaceship is the piece de resistance. Oh and the music is not too shabby either. Can't be bettered imo, even if the rest of the film now looks somewhat dated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdoA3AJ6zGE&feature=related


All preceded by this just for the titles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

 

[Staypuft]

'You a gangster now Dave'

Brilliant scene wher Pacino walking round the nightclub...Pacino at his coolest.