Any genre, any film. Shoot.
The original Star Wars
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Iron Giant
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Just saw the first scene of Jackie Brown with the Bobby Womack soundtrack and that fucking slaps.
Inglorious Bastards basically stands in the shadow of it’s first scene.
Tainted by everything but Tarantino knows how to open a film.
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I know it’s a but obvious but the start of Drive is very cool.
Less obvious; the opening scene of Ronin
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Yup. Came in to say this
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The opening scene of The Matrix (1999) and then the subversion of the opening scene of The Matrix (1999) in The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
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The first person scene in Halloween from the killer’s perspective behind the mask (when he’s still a kid) is the premise for all 2,10874 versions that came after it, and obviously John Carpenter was at his peak there but it’s so weird they never went back to it. Too iconic maybe.
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Jaws is a banger.
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Punch Drunk Love
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2001’s monkey scene? Definitely important but it is a bunch of monkeys.
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The Up montage is the first one that sprung to mind.
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I love how I watched it a few times before I realised, “Hey, the harmonium being dropped off has absolutely fuck all to do with the car crash”. For some reason, that’s really funny to me
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very prescient of our modern day
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Mixed film but the opening of Sicario is well good
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PTA’s got a good track record for this
TWWB basically opens with the 2001 opening except instead of the evolution of apes it’s a lad getting brained by a bucket and becoming a capitalist psychopath
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woman smells of lamp, takes shower
There is no shower scene. You must be thinking of the opening scene of Psycho (1960).
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