How To Begin A Movie

According to my research from school, you need a begining, middle, and end.

Monty Python: Not to mention that they start it out by playing "the wrong bloody film."

I remember watching dark knight as a kid and being like, “where’s f**ken Batman!??”, for the first 15 minutes of the film

"As far as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster"

I love it when a film shows you everything you need to know about the character without telling you anything. The joker intro was just about perfect.

A bunch of crazy shit going on and then a freeze frame "That's me. Wondering how I got here?" That's obviously the best way to open a movie.

Regarding the opening sequence of The Matrix, to me, it's even more interesting considering how the Wachowski siblings used it as a gamble. The studio initially granted them a budget of only ten million dollars for the whole movie, although they needed sixty-three million. So what they did was to use the whole ten million they got, just to shoot that sequence with Trinity and make it so good as to convince the studio to grant them the budget they eventually got. So basically the Wachowskis used the opening sequence for its purpose to showcase the kind of movie it's going to be on its own, because they needed to and it worked perfectly.

I think another great example of an opening not mentioned is Baby Driver. It grips you from the first moment and conveys so much without a word.

The opening of the Dark Knight is something special indeed, I love it

I also really like the opening of UP it didnt really have much dialogue but man it hits hard.

LOTR opens with dialogue that basically explains the story. And it is easily one of the best openings.

Inglorious Basterds opening scene will always be the one that sticks out to me as “perfect” … The suspense is like no other and it establishes the character “Hans Landa” in so much detail, all compacted in to a singular opening scene

But don't forget: You need to master the rules before you can break them.

The opening of Logan is like the film maker grabbing a sledge hammer and smashing it in your face, saying “Get ready. You’re in for one hell of a ride.” - The closer look 2018

The opening of How to Train Your Dragon established both many (but not all) of the musical leitmotifs as well as the characters. It's a really good opening.

The dark knight intro and honestly any Christopher Nolan film always has that huge open world feel and I love it

Willy Wonka: Here's a sequence of how a chocolate is packaged. Lord of War: Hold my Beretta.

Up, man. That opening is up there with the greatest opening montages of all time.

How James Bond films didn't get a mention I don't know. They're renowned for their opening scenes.

The opening to The Last of Us tv show, I think, is really good. It perfectly sets the chilling tone of dread and introduces newcomers to the idea behind the show but not in a boring way