Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire VERY EFFECTIVE MOVIE OPENINGS.

I've always thought that this opening for Twelve OClock High was one of the most effective movie openings I'd ever seen when I first watched it on "big screen" when it had just been released. I still think that. FWIW, one of the novelists and screenwriters was Sy Bartlett, who flew in B17s over France and Germany during WW II.

It was also filmed when there were still plenty of serviceable B17s available for filming. Enjoy.



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L.W.

I've always thought the first ten minutes or so of Mad Max (the Nightrider chase) was one of the best introductions to a world and a character ever.

Another great one was the opening scene of Jaws.

Dammit, Leanwolf. 2 hours and 17 minutes.

Playing on my big screen now, I think I can do it. zzzzz

They don't make movies like this anymore

Dean Jagger delivered a sublime performance in the opening few minutes.

Hard to beat saving private Ryan for opening scenes…

Yep, a lot of story in that film. How did you like the opening?

As an aside, 20th Century Fox did a spin off teevee series in the early 1960s. The story editor was a friend of mine, William "Andy" Anderson. He flew B17s in WW II and B36s in the Korean War. He also wrote a novel that was made into a movie with Gene Hackman. It was titled Bat 21. Later he also wrote a column about RVing for a magazine called Trailer Life. The editor of that magazine, Bill Estes was/is an old college friend of mine. We've done a lot of elk/deer, etc., hunting together. He's retired from T.L. and lives in Prescott, Arz. Andy Anderson died about 20 or so years ago.

FWIW.

L.W.

Hitchcock's 'VERTIGO' opening sequence - fits the bill.

I also liked out of Africa, dances with wolves had that scene set in the war where Costner rode out into the open.

Hatari had some good scenery.

He pulled me in too. I had not seen it in maybe 35 years. It was worth the late night. Great movie.

Good writing is good writing and this is perhaps one of the best introductions to a movie. The opening scene in “Unforgiven” when the lonely homestead is shown at sunset…




She was a comely young woman and not without prospects. Therefore it was heartbreaking to her mother that she would enter into marriage with William Munny, a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition. When she died, it was not by his hands as her mother might have expected, but of smallpox. That was 1878.

Agree

"2001 - A Space Odyssey."

Star Wars

And the closer,,

3:10 to Yuma, original.

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