Is there a better opening scene than this in a film ?

[7sisters]

https://youtu.be/e5L617dEXlE?si=aDIIlPG7L4IaaGFP

The transition from those Huey blades to the ceiling fan.. Coppola at his best ?

[PSRB]

https://youtu.be/e5L617dEXlE?si=aDIIlPG7L4IaaGFP

The transition from those Huey blades to the ceiling fan.. Coppola at his best ?

Great movie, always put it on with volume up when wife is away with work.

[WES]

https://youtu.be/e5L617dEXlE?si=aDIIlPG7L4IaaGFP

The transition from those Huey blades to the ceiling fan.. Coppola at his best ?

Great scene - from a film of great scenes without actually being a great film imo. When I watch it I always find myself getting slightly bored as I wait for the next great scene :-\

On a related note, that brings back memories of listening to The End EXTREMELY stoned out of my mind at uni.

The good old days :-(

[redgunamo]

Yep, agreed.

Though, on a similarly related note, I would've been puking my guts out into my lap after a fifty-mile trot up and down the Sarn Helen back in those good old days. This is the end indeed :-|


Great scene - from a film of great scenes without actually being a great film imo. When I watch it I always find myself getting slightly bored as I wait for the next great scene :-\

On a related note, that brings back memories of listening to The End EXTREMELY stoned out of my mind at uni.

The good old days :-(

[Luis Anaconda]

Great scene - from a film of great scenes without actually being a great film imo. When I watch it I always find myself getting slightly bored as I wait for the next great scene :-\

On a related note, that brings back memories of listening to The End EXTREMELY stoned out of my mind at uni.

The good old days :-(
Good description, w. I think I watched it about five time before I made it to the end. First few times at uni, drugs may have been involved

[Luis Anaconda]

https://youtu.be/e5L617dEXlE?si=aDIIlPG7L4IaaGFP

The transition from those Huey blades to the ceiling fan.. Coppola at his best ?

No - there isn't. The opening shot of The Player is one that could rival it - but a touch pretentious perhaps. And of course The Spy Who Loved Me :unionjack:

[redgunamo]

Excellent call on the Union Jack moment. One o' dem where the cinema applauded and gales of whistles flew out. Marvellous.

On a related note, when I was a kid my big sister had an exchange pupil in from St. Quentin. Or St. Etienne. Somewhere like that. Anyways, somewhere in France. At Sunday lunch one time, young Jean-Paul or whatever his name was, holds up a chicken drumstick and says, Bof. What do you call these, hein?

"Bones", says my old man.

"Ah!", says our Frenchman. "James Bones!"

<lols from the fam> <Bemused look from young Jacques>

And verily it came to pass that from that day forth, 007 would be forever known as "Bones", in our house.



No - there isn't. The opening shot of The Player is one that could rival it - but a touch pretentious perhaps. And of course The Spy Who Loved Me :unionjack:

[redgunamo]

"Miami Vice" (2006). Michael Mann at his most Michael Mann. And if you'd never heard "Numb/Encore" before, as I had not, you'd swear it was the greatest, coolest track ever made.



https://youtu.be/e5L617dEXlE?si=aDIIlPG7L4IaaGFP

The transition from those Huey blades to the ceiling fan.. Coppola at his best ?

[Pat Vegas]

Great movie, always put it on with volume up when wife is away with work.

Sounds like another kind of movie.

[Luis Anaconda]

Excellent call on the Union Jack moment. One o' dem where the cinema applauded and gales of whistles flew out. Marvellous.

On a related note, when I was a kid my big sister had an exchange pupil in from St. Quentin. Or St. Etienne. Somewhere like that. Anyways, somewhere in France. At Sunday lunch one time, young Jean-Paul or whatever his name was, holds up a chicken drumstick and says, Bof. What do you call these, hein?

"Bones", says my old man.

"Ah!", says our Frenchman. "James Bones!"

<lols from the fam> <Bemused look from young Jacques>

And verily it came to pass that from that day forth, 007 would be forever known as "Bones", in our house.

:hehe: Excellent story