TCM showed one of their promos recently, dozens of snippets of mostly famous scenes from old movies. A couple of them had people falling, and one in particular intrigued me. It appeared to be a man in a suit falling through the air, face down, shot from above, as though falling from an airplane. What movie?
More details would help, but The Hudsucker Proxy had a scene like that - the POV of the shot changes a few times over the course of the scene, but there’s several seconds of it from the POV you describe.
That’s probably it. I don’t remember it appearing as if he was falling from a building, but then it flashed past pretty fast.
Heh. I thought it was going to turn out to be the opening sequence to MOONRAKER, where James Bond doesn’t let a little thing like “not having a parachute” bother him, because he can streamline his slacks-and-blazer-and-turtleneck-clad self to expertly skydive down at that unsuspecting chap who (a) currently has a parachute, and (b) doesn’t realize he’s about to be grappled in free-fall by the world’s greatest killer.
(Tell me again how superhero films are a recent phenomenon.)