When watching a film at the cinema, the experience is often punctuated by people stumbling in late, shifting around in their seats, unwrapping sweets and being generally distracting. But sometimes, an opening scene is so attention-grabbing, so unashamedly bombastic, that everyone can't help but calm down and watch.
The opening scene is crucial in setting the tone for a movie. When it begins well, the first few minutes can be truly iconic, able to exist as a piece of short film in its own right – I'm thinking of Pierce Brosnan in GoldenEye, bungee-jumping down a dam and fighting off a small army before jumping into a free-falling plane. Or how about the beautiful four-minute montage at the start of Pixar's Up?
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