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DonnachaOne 12-04-04 01:23 AM

Best character entrance?
 
Sometimes, a good entrance or introduction is all you need to get the audience gunning for or sympathizing with a character. What are some of the best entrances you've seen on screen?

I just thought of this while watching Blade. Fantastic scene in the techno "bloodbath" club; amid the blood-soaked vampires, there's Blade, clean as a whistle. The vampires ready themselves while some murmer"That's him!", "It's the daywalker!"... and then he starts kicking. major. vampire. ass.

Now THAT'S an entrance. Told you all you need to know, and was great in doing it.

Rivero 12-04-04 01:33 AM

http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/1058/592/lo/co1.jpg


http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/1058/592/lo/co3.jpg


http://media.movieweb.com/galleries/1058/592/lo/co2.jpg

DonnachaOne 12-04-04 01:35 AM

Rivero, you just shot up three notches in my book.


Which puts you at notch THREE, but hey... that's higher than most posters here

dyerjp 12-04-04 02:27 AM

leatherface in the original texas chainsaw massacre

chente 12-04-04 02:47 AM

Harry Lime in the Third Man.

FinkPish 12-04-04 03:09 AM

Jack Sparrow.
Willy Wonka.

ckolchak 12-04-04 05:34 AM

Indiana Jones (ROTLA)
Rhett Butler (GWTW)
Quint (Jaws)

Giantrobo 12-04-04 05:54 AM

Frank N Furter... Rocky Horror Picture Show. :up:
Darth Vader...Star Wars
Lolita...Lolita
The Wicked Witch...Wizard of Oz

Amator 12-04-04 07:21 AM


Originally posted by chente
Harry Lime in the Third Man.
Exactamundo!

http://www.filmmonthly.com/Noir/Arti...heThirdMan.jpg

The Nature Boy 12-04-04 08:05 AM

I like Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. Amps a good movie into the realm of greatness.

DonnachaOne 12-04-04 08:41 AM

Max Cady in the remake of Cape Fear.

You don't see his face as he gets his stuff together and leaves his cell. Then he walks out... towards the camera... and doesn't slow down...

MSD 12-04-04 08:55 AM

All the characters in The Good The Bad And The Ugly.

OldBoy 12-04-04 09:39 AM

http://www.channel4.com/film/media/f...lien_xl_05.jpg

The Infidel 12-04-04 10:16 AM

I have some favorites from my movie collection. Some may not be so grandiose, but at the very least made a cool first impression, especially if accompanied by a cool line:

Brandon Lee rising from the grave in The Crow
Daryl Hannah walking up to the Statue of Liberty buck-naked in Splash
Arnold in T2
Jack Black walking in the record store playing air guitar in High Fidelity: "Holy Shiite! What the fuck is that?"
Sean Connery as Ramirez in the first Highlander
Shrek kicking open the outhouse door at the beginning of the movie
John Forsythe as Bill Murray's old boss in Scrooged: "Wooooooo-wee! That was a good one!"
Michael Clarke Duncan stepping off the prison truck in The Green Mile
Kelly LeBrock's entrance in Weird Science: "So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?"

DVD Smurf 12-04-04 11:44 AM

http://blofeld.qbranch.se/~maal01/To...rai/SEVEN7.JPG Toshirô Mifune in Seven Samurai

http://www.a-point.org/photo/theseventhseal.jpg Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) in Seventh Seal

RyoHazuki 12-04-04 11:52 AM

Christian Bale in Equilibrium shooting those guys in the dark.

Mondo Kane 12-04-04 12:35 PM

http://koti.mbnet.fi/rs901536/shobary/ouatitw/harm1.jpghttp://koti.mbnet.fi/rs901536/shobar...itw/frank1.jpg
http://www.bizarreingredients.co.uk/.../ichi/ich2.jpg
http://cdn-channels.netscape.com/gal...dbabes/lg1.jpg
http://www.kestrelsnest.net/fnm/grap...rangelove2.jpghttp://www.newshax.com/uploads/img3e90fcd0a954b.jpg

My most favorite character entrance of all would have to be Juan in Fistful of Dynamite, but pics don't do that one justice.

tommyp007 12-04-04 01:04 PM

http://www.prospero.nildram.co.uk/im...enshot/dn2.jpg

and the legend begins.

Hiro11 12-04-04 01:25 PM

A winnar si yuo. Best two entrances in any movie.

How about:
Max's introductory montage in Rushmore (JV triathalon)?

IDrinkMolson 12-04-04 01:44 PM

Nightcrawler in X-men 2.

PopcornTreeCt 12-04-04 05:08 PM

Bogie in Casablanca. There is no equal.

DonnachaOne 12-04-04 06:10 PM

More of an exit than an entrance... ;)

Maxflier 12-04-04 07:24 PM

http://www.dmeb2.org/pictures/duel/maul_intro2_lg.jpg

http://www.dmeb2.org/pictures/duel/maul_intro3_lg.jpg

http://www.dmeb2.org/pictures/duel/maul_intro6_lg.jpg

http://www.dmeb2.org/pictures/duel/dm_challenge3_lg.jpg

ViewAskewbian 12-04-04 07:35 PM


Originally posted by Amator
Exactamundo!

http://www.filmmonthly.com/Noir/Arti...heThirdMan.jpg

This was mine as well. One of the best, if not THE BEST, entrances in film history.

SeanValen 12-04-04 07:39 PM

Timothy Dalton's hair blowing in the wind like some wolf as his fellow agent falls to his death in the living daylights, and the most dangerous bond of them all is seen by audiences, capturing the scene.


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