Since the rules now allow aliens, what about the alien from Aliens?
If that’s not a great entrance, what is?
And Hannibal Lechter in Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins managed to convey evil just standing alone in a prison cell.
You’d be surprised how often I hear that.
I came in to mention this one, which has to be one of the most impressive entrances.
It’s probably based on pictures that Tesla had taken for publicity purposes:
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1440&bih=708&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=99qYXPyeNs60_Ab92p_4CA&q=Tesla+surrounded+by+electrical+discharge&oq=Tesla+surrounded+by+electrical+discharge&gs_l=img.3...3834.7878..8114...0.0..0.85.1135.19......0....1..gws-wiz-img.kSu0mlaFl8U#imgrc=mC9FlywEC-b7WM:&spf=1553521437843
The thing is, those were double exposures, so he wasn’t really there where the discharges were.
You really must learn how to take a compliment.
Sorry, fixed.
Garbo in Camille.
I always loved seeing this in a theater. There is opening text which contains an archaic use of gay. This causes a few titters and smiles in the audience. The quick cut is to a closeup of Garbo as the title character, filling the screen. There are always audible gasps. Few actresses were as beautiful as Garbo in closeup.
And Charles Bronson in Once Upon A Time In The West
“Did you bring a horse for me?”
“It looks like we’re… it looks like we’re shy one horse!”
“You brought two too many.”
in a lot of cases, the entrance is one where we’re teased with the appearance, and someone seeing the film for the first time might not appreciate why they’re making such a big deal about the entrance.
1.) George Lazenby as James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Lazemby was the first guy to play Bond in the Eon movies after Sean Connery* , so of course they played with showing us his face
2.) Donald Pleasance as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice . Blofeld’s face had been hidden in the previous Bond films, so people wondered what he was going to look like. They gave him a distinctive scar and a bald head. Mike Myers used it as the basis for his Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies, so it’s not as shocking as it once was
3.) Audrey Hepburn in Robin and Marian – Audrey Hepburn hadn’t appeared in a movie in almost a decade before she was in this “mature” Robin Hood drama, which had an impressive cast (Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Nicol Williamson as Little John), and people wondered what she looked like. The camera lingered before revealing her as still pretty damned glamorous.
4.) Boris Karloff as Frankenstein – One of the great reveals. The studio had kept the makeup under wraps – very literally
So people were curious what he would look like. Director James Whale – who had a tendency to throw faces at the audience in this film (look at how Elizabeth and Victor are first presented to the audience) played coy with the face of the monster. You first see him completely swaddled in bandages. Then later “Henry” Frankenstein and Prof. Waldmann discuss him, with the monster off-screen. Then the monster comes to the door, and Henry opens it, to reveal him facing the other way. S-l-o-w-l-y he turns around, then there are two swift jump cuts to give a close-up and a closer-up of that face, with its squared-off forehead, unnatural pallor, stitches and scars, heavy, half-closed eyelids, and the sunken-in cheeks*. When you consider that all the advertising with the face wasn’t out yet, and that the iconic image of the monster still had not been spread around, this must have been an impressive entrance.
*Karloff took out a dental plate to help create that “sunken” look.
*we ignore Barry Nelson’s turn as Bond in the 1950s version of Casino Royale, and all the “Fake Bonds” in the non-Eon version of Casino Royale in 1967
Rhett Butler standing at the bottom of the staircase as he watches Scarlett walk down. Standing there, and breaking into that enormous grin.
Sets the tone for their entire story.
Their appearance at the beginning of A Hard Day’s Night is pretty iconic too–four guys being chased by a mob, a couple of them trip and fall, the lead guy looks back for a sec and then runs on, laughing.
When we first see Christian Bale’s shirtless body in The Machinist.. There’s a murky scene before it where we see his face but you really can’t make him out too well. Then we see him in the stark light of the bathroom and that was so jarring to me I let out an audible gasp.
In The Ring, when we first see Samara as she currently exists, people in the theater screamed their heads off. *That *was an entrance :eek:
WOW!!!
My only exposure to Barbara Stanwyck was on Big Valley (I think that was the name) as a kid.
I don’t remember her looking like THAT. Maybe I was just too young to appreciate her beauty.
I nominate this for thread winner
Orson Wells in The Third Man
Sean Young, as Rachel, in Blade Runner. In that eerie office with the reflected light flickering on the ceiling and the smoggy sunset glowing in through the windows.
Bette Davis - twice - in Now, Voyager:
First, her initial appearance as the frumpy daughter.
Second, her appearance after her radiant transformation.
And, of course, Bette in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
If we include Frankie, we can hardly neglect I am…DRAcula, can we?
Ahem. Three fabs running. Paul appears from behind a newspaper over a minute later.
Screw all these. We’ve overlooked the greatest character entrance in movie history.
Norman’s mother in Psycho. Not only that, but Hitchcock pulled it off twice. In just 11 seconds!
Do you know how many decades it was until I realized Dracula walks through that gigantic spiderweb? :smack:
WAYNE’S WORLD 2 has a gas-station attendant get asked for directions and reply without being terribly interesting. This prompts a response: “Do we have to put up with this? I mean, can’t we get a better actor? I know it’s a small part, but I think we can do better than this.” The director of course steps in, swapping the guy out for Charlton Heston: already reminiscing, in full-on Oscar mode.
“Gordon Street? Ah, yes, Gordon Street. I once knew a girl who lived on Gordon Street. Long time ago, when I was a young man…”