# greatest entrances in movie history **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469 "2019-03-24T21:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/21 "2019-03-24T22:51:15Z")
Leatherface in texas chainsaw massacre. I think this was his first appearance. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y33Fio8Ghpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/22 "2019-03-24T22:57:25Z")
Darth Vader. I win. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/23 "2019-03-24T22:59:30Z")
[John Wayne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4Q3jtyapc) in _Stagecoach_. He shows up with the mesas of Monument Valley behind him and the camera zooms in, as John Ford says, “This is a movie star.” Chico and Harpo in _[Duck Soup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmScynxUaa8&t=4s)_ And [Groucho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jmc-qY9Rw) in _A Night at the Opera_ Richard Gere as Billy Flynn in _[Chicago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfxoCicKvCc)_. I love the fake out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/24 "2019-03-24T23:01:59Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Darth Vader. > > I win. A towering man striding into view while clad in body armor has a lot going for him. Anthony Hopkins, though, did it as a little guy just standing there in a prison cell. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/25 "2019-03-24T23:06:03Z")
[Leonard Smalls, Biker of the Apocalypse,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0mlMcIOHqE) in _Raising Arizona._ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/26 "2019-03-24T23:08:22Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Darth Vader. > > I win. You might if someone else hadn’t beaten you by a dozen posts.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/27 "2019-03-24T23:17:23Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “Well, that’s funny, because I happen to have Mister McLuhan right here!” > > (_“I heard what you were saying; you know nothing of my work!”_) Very clever. Expands the possibilities. Does the narration of “We were somewhere on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" count? Or “Call me Ishmael” in Moby Dick, with Gregory Peck, which I just saw. I rule that they do. Not related to that, but I thought of one, in Apocalypse Now - “Saigon. Shit. I’m still only in Saigon.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/28 "2019-03-24T23:30:15Z")
[Arnold’s arrival in The Terminator](https://youtu.be/64U0_QtxJMs) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/29 "2019-03-24T23:33:43Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Very clever. Expands the possibilities. Does the narration of “We were somewhere on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" count? Or “Call me Ishmael” in Moby Dick, with Gregory Peck, which I just saw. > > I rule that they do. > > Not related to that, but I thought of one, in Apocalypse Now - “Saigon. Shit. I’m still only in Saigon.” ETA. That is another thread. Greatest narrations in movie history. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/30 "2019-03-25T00:01:06Z")
[Kong](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/videoplayer/vi2615739417?ref_=tt_ov_vi) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/31 "2019-03-25T00:01:55Z")
What about ol’ King Kong? Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster. The spider in the basement in “Incredible Shrinking Man.” Kong-ninja’d, rats! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/32 "2019-03-25T00:09:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Kong-ninja’d, rats! Sorry, thought you were Robot Arm. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/33 "2019-03-25T00:12:02Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > what the hell, anything is allowed. Okay. The shark in _Jaws_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/34 "2019-03-25T00:13:39Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Okay. > > The shark in _Jaws_. The head in _Jaws_. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/35 "2019-03-25T00:17:31Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > How about Harmonica (Charles Bronson) in Once Upon a Time in the West. For that matter, Frank’s entrance is pretty good, revealing as it does that _Henry Fonda_ is going to be the heavy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/36 "2019-03-25T00:19:38Z")
King Louis XVI in _ **Start the Revolution without Me** _: “You told me it was a costume ball.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/37 "2019-03-25T00:20:15Z")
[Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in the first Pirates movie.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdrCPr3gDQ) [Guitar Guy in Mad Max: Fury Road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozmjV_VLYyo) ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/38 "2019-03-25T00:22:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The head in _Jaws_. Characters, not dead heads. No, I remember that, saw the movie when I was 14 or so. To this day, I have never been scared so much by a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/39 "2019-03-25T00:59:22Z")
[Gandalf’s arrival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meK0G3o9mPw) in The Shire. His cart approaches and Fodo says “You’re late!” Slow turn of the head, and the wizard is revealed, peering out from under his hat. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469/40 "2019-03-25T01:31:28Z")
> [@Darren Garrison](#): > > This site tends to be SF-heavy, so I tried to think of a non-SF reference to say before Darth Vader, but I’m not thinking of it quickly, so **Darth Vader.** > [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I forgot a rule. **No aliens, monsters. Humans only** wait… what? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-entrances-in-movie-history/831469.md?page=3)