Best character entrance?
01-05-05, 01:08 PM
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"I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand that?"
01-05-05, 01:16 PM
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Quint in Jaws -- the original, fingernails-on-the-blackboard version, not the DVD version in the music store (very pedestrian, that one).
The Genie in Disney's Aladdin.
The Queen in Aliens.
Rocky in Chicken Run.
The Genie in Disney's Aladdin.
The Queen in Aliens.
Rocky in Chicken Run.
01-13-05, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by dealer
"I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand that?"
SIR...Yes SIR!!!!!
01-13-05, 01:16 PM
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Darth Maul, James Bond, and Harmonica own this thread!
I'd also like to mention:
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Arnold/Conan/Turning the giant wheel - Conan the Barbarian
Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Quint - Jaws
And of course the best for last:
I'd also like to mention:
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Arnold/Conan/Turning the giant wheel - Conan the Barbarian
Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Quint - Jaws
And of course the best for last:
01-14-05, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by QuiGonJosh
Arnold/Conan/Turning the giant wheel - Conan the Barbarian
Two great entrances in the movie. Conan looking up from the Wheel of Pain, and Thulsa Doom taking off his helmet at the village. Basil Poledouris's score during the two was perfect.
01-14-05, 04:14 PM
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Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. What's unique about this one is that we see dozens of images of Kane at various stages of his life in the newsreel. Then we see him as a child. But then Thatcher relates his exasperation with Kane as a young man, in a series of faster and faster shots, until boom! Kane wheels around in his chair and grins at him. Everything in the first 15 minutes of the film or so works up to that shot, saying, "ladies and gentlemen, here's Orson Welles".
My vote for best anti-entrance: John Hurt as John Merrick in The Elephant Man. Everything in the publicity for the movie lets you know that Merrick is terribly deformed, so you are anxious to see him for the first time. So you see a bit of his face, in shadow, in one scene. Then a bit more in another scene. Then his full face, but he's in the background and isn't fully lit, so you still don't see everything. By the time that you do get a full image of his face, there isn't really a single time that you can point to as being its "unveiling", it's been revealed little by little. I think of it as almost the opposite of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera unmasking scene.
My vote for best anti-entrance: John Hurt as John Merrick in The Elephant Man. Everything in the publicity for the movie lets you know that Merrick is terribly deformed, so you are anxious to see him for the first time. So you see a bit of his face, in shadow, in one scene. Then a bit more in another scene. Then his full face, but he's in the background and isn't fully lit, so you still don't see everything. By the time that you do get a full image of his face, there isn't really a single time that you can point to as being its "unveiling", it's been revealed little by little. I think of it as almost the opposite of the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera unmasking scene.
