Sean Connery as King Richard in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Priscilla Presley in The Naked Gun.
- YouTube (first 30 seconds)
…the camera following a a tumblin’ tumbleweed, then heading into a supermarket, while Sam Elliott sets the tone with his absent-minded narration, until we see The Dude, wearing sunglasses, sandals, an open bathrobe, pair of shorts and a bowling shirt, about to buy some half-and-half (by check) for his beloved White Russians…
Grace Kelly in Rear Window. She’s so beautiful, she takes my breath away.
Harold (Leonard Frey) in The Boys in the Band
Come to that, I’ve always thought Derek Jacobi’s Chorus had a great entrance in the Prologue to Act I. Lights a match for the “muse of fire” lines, then flips a guillotine switch to light up a prop-strewn backstage when telling the audience
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o’er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass:
The Chorus’s Prologue is the only passage of Shakespeare that I’ve ever committed to memory, since I left school.
Blade’s arrival in the first *Blade *movie. All the big, bad blood covered vampires becoming terrified when they realize who he is, before he does anything but stand there.
“It’s him!” “The Daywalker!”
Margaret Hamilton (as The Wicked Witch of the West) in The Wizard of Oz (1939):
Bette Davis in *The Letter* (1940): Tatsuya Nakadai in *The Sword of Doom* (1966): Ron Ely as *Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze* (1975)
Good post/username combo there.
Been a while since I’ve seen it but I Nicholas Cage in “Snakeyes” springs to mind.
Each of the Beatles individually in Yellow Submarine.
A more spectacular entrance from The Big Lebowski is Julianne Moore’s as Maude Lebowski.
I thought about that one. Or Bunny’s first appearance.
Jason Isaacs as General Zhukov in “The Death of Stalin”. It is fair to say he makes an impression.
Cool! I just had that DVD mailed to me on Netflix a few days ago. Now your post whetted my appetite for it all the more.
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Grace Kelly in Rear Window. She’s so beautiful, she takes my breath away.
[/QUOTE]Definitely. One of my favorite “desert island movies”, and that scene is all the better to the unexpected first time viewer.
Alex in A Clockwork Orange deserves a mention.
Pssst, hey, your Barbara Stanwyck link leads to the Maude Lebowski clip in your other post.
I’d look up the clip I think you’re trying for, and post a link to help out, but my phone already ate 3 attempts to post a link of my own in this thread.
Great example! Here ya go:
Yeah!
Everyone’s drenched in blood, and Blade is spotless in his leather outfit. Very cool.