It would have to involve “rolling” a Concorde, then opening the pilot’s side window while flying faster than the speed of sound and firing a flare gun out the window to lure a heat-seeking missile from the Concorde’s jet engines.
Like the classic line from some TV series, “When I flip this switch, all the sounds on this ship will be amplified by a factor of one to the fourth power” ?
You just reminded me of a short story with that exact premise. My memory and googlefu are inadequate to come up with a name or title, but I do remember some other stuff. The protagonist is a detective of some sort I believe on a planet orbiting a star called Hell. The planet doesn’t rotate, so all the habitable zones lie along the equator and there is no law, only anarchy. The people live in hovels and murder, rape, and slavery are de rigeur except within the heavily guarded confines of a few corporation buildings that own everything. The protag gets taken as a slave, I believe at some point loses a hand, some stuff happens and kills some bad guys on a boat heading into the night side of the planet (yes not only is there atmosphere there’s water on this mercury-like planet) and I think it more or less ends there.
There have got to be lots of those huge gravity-defying jumps like they do in The Matrix.
In fact, everybody (even pedestrians on the street) should do it constantly – just to avoid brushing against someone, they leap up and run a few steps along the wall of a building or perform a ginormous leap and somersault over the person. There should be hundreds of people doing it in single shots, for totally mundane reasons.
Think of it this way: we’re making a movie with the intention of having Sheldon Cooper’s head explode before the credits start rolling. If you can do it before the OPENING credits, even better.
Ok, NOW go!
“Be careful, the ice planet is over a million degrees below zero.”
“On the third year of our voyage, we finally arrive at the firmament. Our landing point will be the widest space between the huge pits that hold the stars.”