Your favourite opening film scene

"One Cut of the Dead", a great Japanese zombie horror comedy. The first scene is all one 30 minute take. Actually I'd recommend it to Scubes, if he looks at this thread.
 
Apologies going to have to cheat here, not a film, The World at War - Episode 17 - Morning.

Wind blown dunes, an empty beach, tide coming in. Laurence Olivier narrating.

"Winston Churchill to the defeated French people .... Good night then: sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause.........
After 4 long years that dawn was about to break, the invasion of the continent was at hand"

Roll the haunting music.
 
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chickenrunner said:
Apolgies going to have to cheat here, not a film, The World at War - Episode 17 - Morning.

Wind blown dunes, an empty beach, tide coming in. Laurence Olivier narrating.

"Winston Churchill to the defeated French people .... Good night then: sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly upon all who suffer for the cause.........
After 4 long years that dawn was about to break, the invasion of the continent was at hand"

Roll the haunting music.
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And at the end - those in Paris who for years had fought in the resistance finally got revenge on their captors - Lawrence Olivier` tells of "horrific violence" against the Nazis as they fled Paris.
The last scene is a woman who grabs the rifle off a German lying in the road - shot by a Parisienne sniper - and handing it to a fellow Frenchman.
Then the final frame freezes black and white...
"......Morning had finally come"....
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I was thinking Private Ryan - you really feel its you on the beach with bullits whistling round your ears and then the scene where the American GIs in a rage kill the Nazi Boy after he surrended.
 
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