sexy beast

[charliecharlie]

what's your best ever opening film sequence?

mine is Ray Winston lying by that pool in the hills behind Malaga, not a care in the world, he's escaped it all,

and... bang... the film starts

and all backed up with Peaches by the Stanglers...

genius

British films rock(tu) (excuse pun, just couldn't quite resist)

ps could not find video clip of opening sequence so hope these two will bring back sweet memories

love you East Dulwich

xxcc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1560000/images/_1564632_film300.jpg

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Stranglers/_/Peaches

[Keef]

DulwichMum will love you for posting that! I always loved the opening of Trainspotting.

[Marmora Man]

Michael Caine in Get Carter would get my vote

Get Carter

[charliecharlie]

are you saying Dulwichmum looks like Ray Winston, Keef?????

Surely not...

http://content6.flixster.com/skin/profile/10/84/29/10842944_profile_mbox_background.jpg

[Annasfield]

TSWLM

[charliecharlie]

oh yes, Annasfield, brilliant...

and I am crazy about the animated graphics/title sequence of Casino Royale...

really wonderful piece, clever and beautiful...

and that's always a good starting point for anything...

http://www.holster.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/artoftitle4.jpg

[Brendan]

I will never forget the first time I saw a man banging to halves of coconut together.

 

[Annasfield]

Really like that song by Chris Cornell too.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

That sounds vaguely pornographic, Brendan. You might want to add a 'w'!

[tommy]

Opening of "Trading Places" - Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" playing to a juxtaposition of Philly waking up on a winters morning

[Keef]

[charliecharlie]

yes yes and yes Keef

In fact anything that's got Ewan McGreggor in it has to be good, I love him

he was brilliant in Shallow Grave

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1328349977/

can't find clip of opening sequence though

anyone?

[RosieH]

Pure class - Orson Welles laying on the tension over a 3 1/2 minute single shot - it's a thing of beauty

[matthew123]

Once Upon a Time in the West

 

[Mick Mac]

Sexy beast is a fantastic film. Love it - it was Ben Kingsley too wasn't it as the nutter. Great stuff.

[SimonM]

Betty Blue....

[charliecharlie]

Yup, Ben Kingsley it was! and what brilliant hard man acting!

I'm sure he was the role model for the Ralph Fiennes bad guy in 'In Bruges'

compare and contrast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIKeMAgsbU

[PeckhamRose]

Beginning of The Player. One long uncut seen. 8 mins I think it was.

And of course the Roger Moore Bond where he does the Union Jack on the parachute thing.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Opening of The Sound of Music. Trite, I know, but makes me go all goosepimply.

[Mick Mac]

Yes CC - Great stuff by Kingsley, great clip - I did not watch all of the Bruges clip as I have not seen the film yet. But to contrast Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast with the sensible withdrawn accountant in Schindlers List shows the breath of his abilities but sexy beast was perhaps his best role - really convincing, almost scary.

Perhaps Brendan Gleeson is Ireland's version of Ray Winstone.

[Keef]

Almost scary? I was hiding behind the sofa!

[Tony.London Suburbs]

If the opening sequence of The (original) Italian Job doesn't fill you with Joie De Vivre then nothing, surely, will..

The film starts with a driver's-eye view of a Lamborghini Miura driving through the Italian Alps as the titles roll. Following the car as it negotiates the turns at high speed, the scenery is cut off when the car enters the darkness of a tunnel and subsequently explodes. The viewpoint changes to the other end of the tunnel, where the remains of the ill-fated Lamborghini are pulled from the tunnel, wrapped around the front of a bulldozer.

Gorgeous views of The Italian Alps, a great car and the wondrous sound of Matt Monro singing "On Days Like These"......

[charliecharlie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z8aLdIejPs&feature=related

I love love that film TLS

nice thing about this thread (says she modestly) is that it reminds me of some great films I would love to see again

[David Mc]

Films I watch again and again:

Brazil

Plunkett & Macleane

Desperate Remedies

The Summerhouse

[Tony.London Suburbs]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z8aLdIejPs&feature

> =related

>

> I love love that film TLS

> nice thing about this thread (says she modestly)

> is that it reminds me of some great films I would

> love to see again

Indeed charliecharlie! its between Switzerland and Italy ; The Grand Saint Bernard Pass.