Meeting the Prefect of the CDF does have an agreeable sense of drama about it —
the opening scenes of a film.
The swimming pool has been a central part of Hollywood mythology since the dawn of silent pictures, a truth observed and then turned upside down in
the opening scene of the film classic Sunset Boulevard.
In
the opening scene of the film, Lomax stands over the lone survivor of the latest expedition, a dazed biologist named Lena (Natalie Portman), and demands answers she doesn't know how to provide — and that the movie doesn't really care to.
The actors are really just playing themselves as far as their line delivery goes and the plot really doesn't go anywhere new, especially since
the opening scene of the film rewinds through the entire film, showing every action beat, which was a really bizarre move.
Quickly becoming apparent in
the opening scenes of the film, Demange is reluctant to let «71 become bogged down in the complexity of political context to the conflict.
The opening scenes of the film has a younger version of Wayans» Darryl continuously trying to string together lots of cheesy contraptions to get his antenna TV to work, ultimately only responding when he sticks his foot in the toilet.
In
the opening scene of the film, first - time director Grandage depicts this quite literally, with a bustling Manhattan in black and white — until Wolfe appears.
And
the opening scenes of the film certainly feel right.
I didn't like the idea of flashing back to the rest of the Olympics after that stage was perfectly set in
the opening scenes of the film, in fact they could have edited the film to have the entire hostage - drama portion before the credits, the flip over to Avner and company and not keep coming back to it.
The opening scene of the film comes to N'Jobu and Zuri (performed through Denzel Whitaker on this scene and flashbacks, and Forest Whitaker afterward) making a plan to damage her out.
In
the opening scene of the film, Hawke's pothead dad tells his son that he's adopted in about the most casual way possible, advising at the end that you never know what tomorrow may bring.
In one of
the opening scenes of the film, Richard Gere practices committing suicide with an unloaded gun.
In
an opening scene of the film, one naked hijacker is shown shaving his chest (no direct nudity is seen).
T'Chaka speaks of a «difficult choice» he had to make, which is likely referring to
the opening scene of the film, where T'Chaka is forced to kill his own brother, N'Jobu (Sterling K. Brown)-- father of Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan).
Named for the stunt restaged in
the opening scene of this film, Full Burn pictures an ex-special ops marine set on fire in extreme slow motion, transforming the stunt into a ritualized reenactment of trauma.
Not exact matches
The
opening scene of «Spectre,» the latest James Bond
film, centers on a Dia de los Muertos (Day
of the Dead) parade shot on location in Mexico City.
Dinish is well at home with the GOP crowd «For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an
open sepulchre» (ps.5: 9), but God is «not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness» (ps.5: 5) and so although Dinish and by extension the GOP don't care who they hurt with their lies and behind the
scenes dirty tactics like that silly
film, they are cautioned not to include the name
of God in their wickedness.
Dietl was set to play the mayor
of New York City in a movie
scene being
filmed Saturday afternoon, shortly after his appearance at Council Member Eric Ulrich's Howard Beach campaign office
opening.
During an early screening
of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which
opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end
of the
film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin
scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).
Next up was NASA's Dryden Center, where camera crews once
filmed a
scene for the
opening credits
of the 1960s hit sitcom I Dream
of Jeannie, in which astronaut Tony Nelson (played by Larry Hagman) walks into the center's main building.
In the
opening scene of the 1982
film Blade Runner, an interrogator asks an android named Leon questions «designed to provoke an emotional response.»
The
opening scene, in which the two friends share a Christmas Eve donut because they're too broke to afford one for each
of them, unsentimentally suggests the high - wire act that making a living on the streets can be without the
film ever slowing down its electronica - soundtracked strut.
The
film opens, with one
of its few color
scenes, with a closeup
of a hand lighting votive candles with a match in a pre-war Polish Jewish family's home on a Friday night Sabbath.
The aforementioned
opening shots
of Snape look more like Impressionist paintings than a
scene from a kiddie
film.
Haneke's methods are clear from the
opening: after a long, quiet stretch
of simple credits, followed by an extended black screen as silent as the grave, the
film smash - cuts into its first
scene with a terrifying jolt.
After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the
film's
opening stages are less concerned with setting a
scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense
of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images
of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.
From the
opening scenes, with Marco's crew crouched around a poker game in the back
of a military vehicle, with Wyclef Jean's «Fortunate Son» blaring from the sound system, it is clear that this
film has a political head on its shoulders.
From the
opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the beach, full
of hope and elation, backed by Vangelis's now famous anthem, the
film is utterly compelling.
Forster's manic editing style — at its worst in The Quantum
of Solace (2008)- does turn that
opening street rampage into a blithering mess
of shakycam shots, reverse - swish - swoop pans and psycho - edits, but the
film soon calms down, and there are several strong performances in the quiet
scenes that buffer Lane's ongoing question for answers.
The
film's
opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday with any
of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.
The
opening scene of Dawn
of Justice might have been the single strong point
of the entire
film.
The
film devolves into the cozily predictable world
of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty
of its
opening scenes...
The
film opens with the meteorite crashing into an idyllic
scene — a lighthouse situated on the coast
of a swampy national park.
One
of the
opening scenes of The Accountant consists
of puzzle pieces being dumped on a table, and that's a fine metaphor for the
film....
From the
opening space arrival
scene to the final battle, this
film has it all in terms
of a video feast for the eyes and excitement for the ears.
Credits began following the trademarked
opening of a close - up view
of a match - head igniting, and the lighting
of a sparking fuse, accompanied by a blindingly - fast montage
of action
scenes from the
film - and
of course, Lalo Schifrin's memorable theme music.
The
opening of the new Potter
film (for which you can see an exclusive new image below) will be just one
of several
scenes created to up the on - screen excitement in the latest movie.
From an
opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place
of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour
of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the
film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.
It feels as if there are at least a couple
of scenes missing, including some big set pieces that might have
opened up the
film's world beyond Planet Zero, the Fantastic Four, their dad (or at least Johnny and Sue's dad) and Doom.
The
opening scene of Saverio Costanzo's first English language
film Hungry Hearts defines the meaning
of situational irony.
The
film opens with what I would consider to be one
of the best
scenes in all
of 2013.
They include an alternate
opening of Carol doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more
of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a
scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number
of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the
film,
«Get Out» is not a
film that takes breaks for comedy routines (even if Howery allows a little relief, it's often in the context
of how he's convinced all white people want black sex slaves), keeping us on edge and uncertain from the
opening scene to the final one.
Farrands explains that the original
opening of the
film was to be a nightmare sequence that would've paid homage to Carpenter's classic
opening scene, and he lays bare the Man in Black's intentions to sacrifice baby Stephen Lloyd and in turn transfer Michael's evil into young Danny Strode and then starting the cycle again.
«Deadpool 2»
opens with a bang, and director David Leitch talked to TheWrap about one specific fight
scene at the beginning
of the
film that took a lot
of time and effort.
From the very outset Resnais sets up the theatrical artifice
of the
film with
opening scenes of repetition and staged production design.
Instead, Dredd is a small - scale introductory escapade — outside
of an
opening chase
scene and the sequences set within the Grand Hall
of Justice, the
film confines itself within the concrete interiors
of Peach Trees.
From the
opening scene one can not possibly approach the rest
of the
film with a straight face.
But punchiest (literally) and most memorable
of all the many roles is Farrell's petty criminal Lehiff, particularly his first
scene, which
opens the
film.
The
film's
opening scene takes place approximately three months after these creatures have somehow made their presence known, with the Abbott family — Lee (Krasinski) and his wife, Evelyn (Emily Blunt), along with their three children — scrounging for supplies in an abandoned supermarket, padding around barefoot so as not to alert the monsters
of their presence.