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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    No "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November..."?

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    The opening line to Citizen Kane led to one of the great lines my wife has faced since her college days. In the mid-70's, rushing across campus at Mizzou to get the screening on time, my wife said to her friends, "Hurry, the first 5 minutes are the most important." I wasn't even there, but we say that all of time time to her. For her 40th birthday, her best friend from college gave her a copy of Citizen Kane.
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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    my favorite from casino - "When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?"

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    I'm not going to look, but I guarentee this one is in there:

    "As far back as I can remember, all I've ever wanted to be was a gangster".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raisor View Post
    I'm not going to look, but I guarentee this one is in there:

    "As far back as I can remember, all I've ever wanted to be was a gangster".
    First one that showed up.
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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    "Call me Ishmael."

    Or maybe I'm thinking of something else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raisor View Post
    I'm not going to look, but I guarentee this one is in there:

    "As far back as I can remember, all I've ever wanted to be was a gangster".
    That is my favorite opening in all of movies. The atmosphere of how it opened up and him witnessing a murder/the crazieness of it all was directed well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeThierry View Post
    That is my favorite opening in all of movies. The atmosphere of how it opened up and him witnessing a murder/the crazieness of it all was directed well.

    scorsese has a knack for good ones...
    teach tolerance.

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    My favorite was always "Roar" pause "Roar", but it was used in way too many movies.
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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    “Rosebud…” -Citizen Kane

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    That list was super lame. First one I thought of was 'What can you say about a 25 year girl old that died"?

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    Re: 50 Best Opening Lines in Movies

    Not an "opening line", but an "opening scene"...

    My favorite opening scene is from Amistad. Djimon Hounsou's (yes, I had to look up the spelling) rythmic breathing, along with the close-up not identifying what was really going on, other than the desperate sounds of scraping...to be coupled with the contrasts of the darkness and the reflections of light. Spielberg created a masterpiece of an opening scene in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JaxRed View Post
    First one I thought of was 'What can you say about a 25 year girl old that died"?
    Sounds like the beginning of every Law and Order episode.


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