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A while back I did a post on the last shots of a movie, this post is asking about the first scenes that appear. As with the last scene of a movie, the opening has to be memorable and grab the attention of the audience straight away. If I was to list opening scenes that I liked, I would need thousands of pages. So think to yourself which opening scene is the best in your eyes and the reasons why?
vinnieh 
Like yourself, I would need reams of pages to jot down my favourite opening scene in a film. For the purpose of brevity I’d have to say the opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West. The creak of the windmill, the lazy buzzing of the fly, the sound of Jack Elam rocking in his seat, the water dripping onto Woody Strode’s hat and over it all the wind blowing in the background.Truly epic. 🙂
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Hey there, I’ve just passed you on the Liebster Blog Award:
http://themoviefreakblog.com/2012/08/11/liebster-blog-award
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Feast. It’s hilarious.
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I’ve got a few favourites. My number one is probably incredibly predictable: Werckmeister Harmonies. But I also love the opening scenes of Apocalypse Now, Sans Soleil, Somewhere, Antichrist, Once Upon a Time in the West….
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Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark stick most in my mind. Both have incredible opening scenes.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Thanks, that is an excellent opening
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The opening scene in Once Upon a Time in the West is one of my favorites.
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I tend to like opening scenes that show the end at the beginning, but without you realizing it until the end. Such as Inception.
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I also love good opening title sequences (somewhat of a dying art) — are we counting those? — so pretty much anything by David Fincher. Se7en, Fight Club, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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Thanks for the comment, Se7en has one of my favourite openings.
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Children of Men is a great opening sequences- all seems calm and ordinary when Clive Owen gets his coffee from a shop- but as he walks down the street the same shop expodes and we hear the ringing in his ears! Genius by Alfonso Cuaron!
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Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers
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Not really an opening scene, but the most memorable to me is the opening credits of Enter the Void.
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Lots of great choices mentioned above, but I really like Mike’s suggestion of Once Upon a Time in the West. That opening scene is unforgettable.
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Thanks, yeah it gets my vote as one of the best.
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8 1/2,Amelie,LoA,Wings of Desire
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The openings of Scream and Saving Private Ryan are the only ones I can think of.
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Inglorious Basterds had a great opening.
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The opening scene that is always stuck in my head is the opening scene of “28 Weeks Later”. The most intense scene ever.
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Yeah that is an intense and very creepy opening.
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Opening and Closing of Remember The Titans
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I have to say that the opening scene for Resident Evil: Retribution (the latest one) is pretty impressive. It’s a large scale, slo-mo fight scene in reverse…very good!
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That sure sounds like a great opening. I’ll have to check it out.
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The opening scene of Friends with Benefits is mine favourite… Scene starts and it seems that Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake are taliking over the Phone.. but everything turns out to be different,…..
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I haven’t seen that one but will check it out.
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Dawn of the dead (original), starts off with a static shot of a red wall then reveals fran sleeping against it, sand slowly reveals the chaos of a TV studio at the end of the world. It sums up th eentire tone of the movie the violence and the fall of society.
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Sounds like a great opening.
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Way late to this party, but I gotta go with Punch Drunk Love. Simply amazing.
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I haven’t actually seen that film.
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I recommend it. I did a review of it if you want to read it. http://thatmomentin.com/2014/08/01/punch-drunk-love/
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Thanks for the link, will check it out soon.
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