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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 2, 2018 1:33:45 GMT
Memorable entrances in movies – those moments where it’s evident that characters aren’t content with merely walking into a scene like mere mortals do, but have to make a ‘grand’ entrance...or at the very least a memorable one. Memorable entrances often seem to involve walking down staircases, such as Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Some enter a scene by opening doors dramatically, such as Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. While others just simply blast their way through, like the Stormtroopers do before Darth Vader enters in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. So, what character entrances stick out in your mind as ‘memorable’? BATouttaheck - Thanks for your words of encouragement a while back in regards to starting a thread like this.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 2, 2018 1:40:28 GMT
I believe this may be our first view of the count. Again with a staircase.
You are welcome. Always glad to see your posts and threads.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 2, 2018 1:47:58 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 2, 2018 1:52:53 GMT
Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia gmta on Lana
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 2, 2018 2:05:19 GMT
"And then I saw her, coming out of the sun, and I knew why Whit didn't care about that forty grand."
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 2, 2018 2:06:06 GMT
A couple favorites (any identifications or comments would be superfluous):
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Post by gunshotwound on Jan 2, 2018 2:08:22 GMT
Katharine Hepburn makes her entrance descending in an elevator in Suddenly Last Summer (1959).
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 2, 2018 2:31:03 GMT
Out of the shadows. Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 2, 2018 2:37:17 GMT
manfromplanetx's inclusion of The Postman Always Rings Twice and gunshotwound's of Suddenly, Last Summer are examples not only of memorable entrances, but of cinematic symmetry in their exits: TPART: the dropped lipstick. SLS: the voice is heard before the descending elevator brings her into view; as the elevator ascends at the end, the voice is heard after she disappears. I know there are other examples of characters who went out the way they came in (even if I can't think of them at the moment), but these are two of the nicest.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 2, 2018 2:46:08 GMT
Shane As in Lawrence of Arabia, we are introduced to the character from a distance -- watched with great interest as he enters the scene.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 2, 2018 3:28:43 GMT
Glinda arrives in a bubble !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 2, 2018 3:31:27 GMT
Pretty unusual arrivals and departures for this lady as well.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 2, 2018 3:36:41 GMT
I believe this may be our first view of the count. Again with a staircase.
You are welcome. Always glad to see your posts and threads. I believe we first see the Count when he picks up Mr. Renfield with his carriage.
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Post by gunshotwound on Jan 2, 2018 3:37:41 GMT
manfromplanetx 's inclusion of The Postman Always Rings Twice and gunshotwound 's of Suddenly, Last Summer are examples not only of memorable entrances, but of cinematic symmetry in their exits: TPART: the dropped lipstick. SLS: the voice is heard before the descending elevator brings her into view; as the elevator ascends at the end, the voice is heard after she disappears. I know there are other examples of characters who went out the way they came in (even if I can't think of them at the moment), but these are two of the nicest. Doghouse I had forgotten about Hepburn's exit. Thank you for the reminder.
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 2, 2018 4:20:47 GMT
Suddenly appearing in the road ahead. The Ringo Kid in STAGECOACH.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 2, 2018 8:09:09 GMT
Fay Wray's introduction to King Kong ________________________________________________________________________ Faye Dunaway listening to Jack Nicholson's dreadful joke in CHINATOWN ____________________________________________________________________________________________ James Stewart at the banquet in his honor in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
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Post by alfromni on Jan 2, 2018 8:27:59 GMT
Katherine Hepburn again - THE LION IN WINTER
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 2, 2018 15:10:25 GMT
Freeze frame in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: -- introducing the adult George Bailey -- and re-introducing James Stewart to audiences who had not seen him on screen in five years.
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Post by HirundoRustica on Jan 2, 2018 19:00:12 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jan 2, 2018 20:15:48 GMT
The opening bank heist in The Dark Knight. Showed us the Joker in all his glory.
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