Opening scenes…
Discussion
After popping into the thread of films you have watched the most there are some films that just set themselves up beautifully for what is coming from the start..
Silence of the Lambs…The scenery which looks about autumn time and I feel like I’m breathing out my arse even though it’s Jodie Foster doing all the running…
Jaws…slowly meandering through the kelp and seaweed feeling like something is about to happen quick, also reminds me of my late mother who smoked like a beagle in a lab when she took me to see it …
Silence of the Lambs…The scenery which looks about autumn time and I feel like I’m breathing out my arse even though it’s Jodie Foster doing all the running…
Jaws…slowly meandering through the kelp and seaweed feeling like something is about to happen quick, also reminds me of my late mother who smoked like a beagle in a lab when she took me to see it …
Saving Private Ryan. Perhaps the best battle scenes ever filmed. Honourable mention for Gladiator for similar reasons.
Goodfellas... As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...
Once upon a time in the West... Looks like we're shy one horse. You brought two too many.
Goodfellas... As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...
Once upon a time in the West... Looks like we're shy one horse. You brought two too many.
Housekeeping - Bill Forsyth's ill-fated venture in the US film-making - has a brilliant opening scene.
Housewife in the family 1950ies car hands her fur coat out the window to two kids playing in a field. She tells them to put it under the wheels get the car unstuck from the mud as "she doesn't need it any more."
We get a rear shot of the car driving over the field bouncing along with a distinct sense that something is very askew. The boot lid bounces open. The car makes one final bound and drops down out of view.
An aerial shot shows she's just driven off a cliff.
Brilliant film about her two daughters who then go to live with her equally "disturbed" sister. A story asking why society has to intervene in the lives of those who want to live them in their own peculiar way. One sister wants to live as her Aunt does; the other wants to live the way society expects.
Housewife in the family 1950ies car hands her fur coat out the window to two kids playing in a field. She tells them to put it under the wheels get the car unstuck from the mud as "she doesn't need it any more."
We get a rear shot of the car driving over the field bouncing along with a distinct sense that something is very askew. The boot lid bounces open. The car makes one final bound and drops down out of view.
An aerial shot shows she's just driven off a cliff.
Brilliant film about her two daughters who then go to live with her equally "disturbed" sister. A story asking why society has to intervene in the lives of those who want to live them in their own peculiar way. One sister wants to live as her Aunt does; the other wants to live the way society expects.
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