Now THAT’S an entrance!…

Loretta Young always made a dramatic entrance on her TV show with swirling gown and pirouettes. Years later, Ernie Kovacs would spoof that same entrance several times on his TV show with hilarious results...

Bette Davin in "The Letter"

Rosalind Russell, as Auntie Mame, gleefully gliding down the elegant staircase, assuring her party guests that "that darling bootlegger," was on his way with more gin.

The whole entrance scene in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), and where the evil Oroku Saki aka The Shredder first makes his appearance.

I guess, for my generation, growing up and having to see week in and out, Shredder being reduced into a side-kick clown, along with the evil Lord Krang, from Dimension X, and the two played i out in the long running tv-show, as some kind of a ridicilous sitcom couple, who just argued and made fun of each other and so on.
But then to later on, to see this truly bad ass movie version of Shredder for the first time, well, it was just so more menacing and impressive.
From the music, the ligtning, camera angles and how much fear and respect his "students" and Master Tetsu has of their leader, is just truly good cinema.

This version of the Shredder did not make witty remarks and cracked jokes every other second, nor did he run with his tail between the legs, after getting beaten by the Turtles. No, this was something else.
He manipulated and took all these lost and desperate young kids and teenagers under his "wings", in order to help him gain control of the underworld, through crimes and violent attacks on innocents, and in return they would be promised a full time memebership into the foot clan.

For those who grew up when the Turtles were at their absolute commercial and popular peak, the early 90s, this scene was pretty much like our version of the whole epic Darth Vader introduction of a classic movie villain, and I guess that is whom Shredder or at least much of this scene seems to have taken its influence from. 

However, it all went downhill after the great first movie, as the second one toned much of the dark and violent style and dialogue down, and replaced the weapons with toys, food and other silly stuff, and us kids where not stupid, we realized early on that this was not how it was meant to be.
Then came the third one, and it was just all over.
 
Thankfully, the first one is a classic action/adventure of the early 90s, and is probably and most likely the one and only movie that does the original 1980s comics most justice, and the chances of getting a Turtles movie as well made as the one from 1990, is not likely gonna happen any day, sadly.