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  1 0 A few that come to mind... 8 1/2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmEqBdde5H0 Persona: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW533vE_v78 F For Fake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zZNFzrvAA Citizen Kane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZOzk7T93wE AntiChrist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZj5VhpMAo (NSFW) Contact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGyq7d62oPQ Manhattan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8 Trainspotting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koP4O6QAzx4 Harold and Maude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3taMrJZ6p8 Nick Nelson answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Nick Nelson… 0 0 Also, the opening to the ATHF movie is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vf3VzVbrXU Nick Nelson commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Harmonica's arrival at the train station in Once Upon a Time in the West is pretty fantastic, as is the opening sequence of Raising Arizona. Brian Pitts answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Hanover Street-- a captured British soldier is being interogated by a Nazi officer. He denies he is a spy in Germany. All goes well until he is offered a cigarett in English, and he accepts in English, and realizes he's blown his cover. The lights come up and we realize this is only training... that scene will be played out for real later on... FAME-- An empassioned tale of being bullied and pressured by other students is related by a lonely single boy in the spotlight, which has you on the edge of your seat, ready to cry for him... until he pauses, and asks for his next "Line" please... and you realize that he's acting in a one character play. Big time sucker sceen! And yes, HAROLD AND MAUDE--- had me at the first scene and the last scene as well. What a shocker! My favorite scene! "Cagey" answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 when napolean dynamite gets a little fake wrestler and ties him with string and dangels him through the window of the back of a school bus . CLASSIC skate,fall,skate,fall answered in Entertainment & Film about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The Fall is amazing! It's surely in my top list for all time. I've found that most introductions that stick with me as favorites have a very good or very unique score attached to them. They don't have the opening sequence online, but here's the trailer (along with the song used) for Empire of the Sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv9rirLk2kA&feature=related I'll have to think of more. Renée answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 A school bus drives toward us along an empty road. A limousine stops in the center of the road. Close up on a pair of snakeskin cowboy boots as a skinny, denim and leather clad figure emerges. The sinewey figure in the boots walks away from the camera, toward the approaching bus. He stops. Standing in the road the bus gets closer, then brakes. Long hair whipping around his head in the desert heat, Iggy Pop boards the bus. He walks slowly to the back. We see the children watching him, their reactions vary. Some huddle together in fear, others ignore him, one little boy shoots at him with a toy ray-gun. Iggy reaches out and takes the little boy by the hand, leading him back to the limo - where the perverted 150 year old mayor is waiting. The film is Atolladero. It is kind of like Mad Max and Sergio Leone wrestling on the set of Six String Samurai. Absolutely my favorite opening sequence. My second favorite is the faux newsreel in Citizen Kane. Rhias Hall answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Lock Stock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1UXSxTjfo Lost Highway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJOJFob0bE Suicide Kings (Sadly, couldn't find the opening scene, but you should rent it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAUqdKkyBTs Goodfellas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmbvcYKXdI&feature=related Jim C answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The backstory exposition that opens Fellowship of the Ring, was nice, too. FOTR and TTT were so nice; Return of the King, which nominally won all the prizes, was such a letdown. pointvarnish answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Clockwork Orange and 2001 come to mind. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blue Velvet and more recently Inglorious Basterds all have incredible intros. Cale answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Ran - Kurosawa. it's a simple opening, just four men on horseback over a vast mountainside, eventually culminating in a hunt, but it really sets up the mood of the picture. Also - Snake Eyes by Brian De Palma. Mediocre movie but an outstanding opening; the first 12 minutes of the film looks like one continuous take, and it really draws you into the story. Unfortunately, where it goes after that is a huge let down. j_lee answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 My mainstreamer list: Matrix does a hard sell fairly nice. So does Mary Poppins and Sin City. Monsters Inc is probably one of the more efficient at packing an entirely unique world into a tiny amount of introduction. LotR:FotR was beautifully thorough. Amelie sets a quirky & specific flavor and pace, and the film stays true to the expectations set therein. (Kill Bill is similar in that regard, as is Ferris Bueller's Day Off & Edward Scissorhands). Phantom Menace, Dances with Wolves and Indiana Jones Last Crusade all have good intro scenes followed by films that IMO fade a bit. But as opening scenes they certainly lure, make the world believable (or set the parameters for how unbelieveable it'll be) and set tone / terms with the viewer. Inversely... Die Hard, Office Space, and Wizard of Oz are some of the WORST at this. My most favorite opener (at least, thinking about it tonight)? Might be Blue Velvet. Rev.Enant answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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