Best entrance in a film
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Raiders of the Lost Ark - the whole opening sequence that introduces the world to Indiana Jones
Star Wars - Han Solo (smoking Greedo)
Se7en - Kevin Spacey's character ("Detectiveeeeeeeeeeeeee!!")
Edit: Darth Vader breathing in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith....well, until he screams "nooooooooooo"....
Star Wars - Han Solo (smoking Greedo)
Se7en - Kevin Spacey's character ("Detectiveeeeeeeeeeeeee!!")
Edit: Darth Vader breathing in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith....well, until he screams "nooooooooooo"....
Brainless Harry Reid
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Does anyone have any favourite ways that a character is introduced into a film? Three that come to mind for me are
Harry Lime's entrance in The Third Man - when he steps pot of the dark doorway.
Jack Sparrow's entrance in POTC; Legend of the Black Pearl - in the crows nest of his sinking boat, and as he arrives at the pier the crows nest is level with the deck and he just steps off. Brilliant.
Lisa Fremont's entrance in Rear Window:
And Godzilla's entrance in the 1998 Godzilla.
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Sorry, that's four.
Harry Lime's entrance in The Third Man - when he steps pot of the dark doorway.
Jack Sparrow's entrance in POTC; Legend of the Black Pearl - in the crows nest of his sinking boat, and as he arrives at the pier the crows nest is level with the deck and he just steps off. Brilliant.
Lisa Fremont's entrance in Rear Window:
And Godzilla's entrance in the 1998 Godzilla.
Edit.
Sorry, that's four.
Nintendo-Miranda
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Aragorn in Lord of the Rings springs to mind: 'Are you frightened?'
Elle Driver in Kill Bill: Volume I.
Data in The Goonies.
Elle Driver in Kill Bill: Volume I.
Data in The Goonies.
Dickie Back
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An introduction scene that has always stuck with me. Is Nightcrawler in X-Men 2. At the begining of the film.
Anish Sharma.
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The sharks entrance in Jaws and Brody says "We're gonna need a bigger boat!"
Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a time in the west" The massacre at the beginning. (Oh my God! It's Henry Fonda!
)
I'm sure there are James Bond ones, but there's so many!
Alex Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross
"PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN! Coffee is for closers"
Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a time in the west" The massacre at the beginning. (Oh my God! It's Henry Fonda!
)I'm sure there are James Bond ones, but there's so many!
Alex Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross
"PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN! Coffee is for closers"
Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now
Cameron Diaz in The Mask
The mothership in Close Encounters (a character in its own right really)
The chestburster in Alien (ditto)
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia
The best entrance in a film, though, is surely the wardrobe in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ;-)
Cameron Diaz in The Mask
The mothership in Close Encounters (a character in its own right really)
The chestburster in Alien (ditto)
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia
The best entrance in a film, though, is surely the wardrobe in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ;-)
stewies_grl93
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Yes, but it ain't a barrel of laughs.......
Vito Corleone
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LOL I laughed at Godzilla. My favourite entrance would have to be Homer in The Simpsons
penguins87
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Agreed. The entrance of Doc (and indeed the DeLorean) is brilliant!
Footprints in the Sand
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Stansfield in L
plaid princess
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Don't know if this breaks the rules TB. But...
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY introductions of the main characters with a freeze frame.
Three men go into a barber shop. There's gun fire and Tuco comes crashing out of a window!
Freeze frame on Tuco "The ugly".
The man with no name has left Tuco tied up and is leaving. Tuco curses him (as only Tuco can ). Man With No Name turns round and says...
"Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life."
Freeze frame "The good".
I can't remember what Angel eyes (The Ugly) scene was!
I can't believe I don't have a copy of this on DVD yet!
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY introductions of the main characters with a freeze frame.
Three men go into a barber shop. There's gun fire and Tuco comes crashing out of a window!
Freeze frame on Tuco "The ugly".
The man with no name has left Tuco tied up and is leaving. Tuco curses him (as only Tuco can
). Man With No Name turns round and says..."Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life."
Freeze frame "The good".
I can't remember what Angel eyes (The Ugly) scene was!
I can't believe I don't have a copy of this on DVD yet!
Go and buy one IMMEDIATELY!
(Angel Eyes is "The Bad" isn't he?)
I like the freeze-frame technique of introducing characters. It's used to good effect in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I thought of a good one on my way to work today, but I can't think of it now...
PS. What rules?
EDIT
I remembered it -
Hannibal Lecter's entrance (if you can call standing in a prison cell an entrance) in Silence of the Lambs.
Also, Mr. Wolfe's entrance in Pulp Fiction:
(Angel Eyes is "The Bad" isn't he?)
I like the freeze-frame technique of introducing characters. It's used to good effect in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
I thought of a good one on my way to work today, but I can't think of it now...
PS. What rules?
EDIT
I remembered it -
Hannibal Lecter's entrance (if you can call standing in a prison cell an entrance) in Silence of the Lambs.
Also, Mr. Wolfe's entrance in Pulp Fiction: