# The greatest entrance in cinema history ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186 "2008-04-28T04:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/21 "2008-04-28T13:27:30Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] It would be nice, when suggesting an entrance, if the actual entrance were named in the post instead of just a blind youtube link. Rather difficult to participate when most of the posts are nothing but “look at this one!” [/QUOTE] Good advice; if I were in the edit window, I’d change it. But I ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/22 "2008-04-28T13:38:26Z")
[Greatest Movie Entrances of All-Time](http://www.filmsite.org/entrances.html) Check this list. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/23 "2008-04-28T13:46:13Z")
Clint Eastwood’s ride into town in High Plains Drifter. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/24 "2008-04-28T13:46:37Z")
Does it have to be the characters first appearence in the film? If not then Toth’s entrance into the tent to interrogate Marion and he pulls out his travel hanger in Raiders of the Lost Ark is really fantastic. Maleficent has several great entrances in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Her first appearence with the green flames is really cool and of course her transformation into a dragon is unmatched. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/25 "2008-04-28T13:50:52Z")
Venus in Baron Munchausen [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lfwycQ5e1iY/hqdefault.jpg "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwycQ5e1iY) Arguably NSFW ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/26 "2008-04-28T13:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] [Greatest Movie Entrances](http://www.filmsite.org/entrances.html) Check this list. [/QUOTE] Rhett Butler is a good call, particularly since he is standing at the bottom of the staircase, and the staircase itself is a motif for Rhett & Scarlett’s relationship: He proposes to her after her drunken walk down the staircase, he carries her up the staircase for a night of sex which gets her pregnant, he makes her fall down the same staircase causing her to miscarry, and she collapses on the staircase after he leaves her with “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/27 "2008-04-28T13:55:51Z")
[As far back as I remember I always wanted to be a gangster](http://youtube.com/watch?v=PV0U0KuT8-c) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/28 "2008-04-28T13:56:16Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] It would be nice, when suggesting an entrance, if the actual entrance were named in the post instead of just a blind youtube link. Rather difficult to participate when most of the posts are nothing but “look at this one!” [/QUOTE] Hear hear. It’s a constant irritation to me, too. I agree that Frankenfurter’s entrance - the huge platform heels tapping an insistent rhythm as he descends in the elevator - can’t be beaten. But for a close second, I nominate Cameron Diaz’s entrance in _The Mask_. For all red-blooded straight men, who had never seen her before, that was a knockout moment. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/29 "2008-04-28T13:56:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] It would be nice, when suggesting an entrance, if the actual entrance were named in the post instead of just a blind youtube link. Rather difficult to participate when most of the posts are nothing but “look at this one!” [/QUOTE] The message board software should be rewritten so that people who post blind links are automatically suspended from the SDMB. Then it should generate a message to Homeland Security suggesting that the perpetrator is a foreign agent who should be investigated immediately. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/30 "2008-04-28T14:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] But for a close second, I nominate Cameron Diaz’s entrance in _The Mask_. For all red-blooded straight men, who had never seen her before, that was a knockout moment. [/QUOTE] Good call. She was a star within a second of that scene. Just in case we forget that scene =\> [http://youtube.com/watch?v=UoeEm-IDF-Y](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UoeEm-IDF-Y) That music also makes me think of a Woody Allen introducing his favourite character in all his movies. [His city.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=0o6QKpNK9Cc) ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/31 "2008-04-28T14:02:46Z")
George Scott’s entrance at the beginning of **Patton**. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/32 "2008-04-28T14:08:51Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] It would be nice, when suggesting an entrance, if the actual entrance were named in the post instead of just a blind youtube link. Rather difficult to participate when most of the posts are nothing but “look at this one!” [/QUOTE] Yes, please. Can’t view videos at work. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/33 "2008-04-28T14:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=Clark K] The message board software should be rewritten so that people who post blind links are automatically suspended from the SDMB. Then it should generate a message to Homeland Security suggesting that the perpetrator is a foreign agent who should be investigated immediately. [/QUOTE] Kinda harsh for a first offense (in this thread!), dontcha think? I bet you voted for Pat Buchanan in '00. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/34 "2008-04-28T14:25:11Z")
There’s always good ol’ [T-Rex](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGO7EHOuTwE) from _Jurassic Park_. RR ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/35 "2008-04-28T14:34:19Z")
For an animated example… **Beauty and the Beast** , Belle’s entrance at the top of the stairs in the yellow ballgown. The first time I saw that movie, I was in a theater full of young and not-so-young people, and that moment inspired audible gasps. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/36 "2008-04-28T14:36:27Z")
The first full view of the shark in [Jaws](http://www.filmsite.org/jaws.html). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/37 "2008-04-28T14:47:58Z")
The spaceship in _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/38 "2008-04-28T14:59:21Z")
Perhaps someone else posted [Ursula Adndress](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnsYVmh9Gtg) in some James Bond movie. Great entrance, but you have to admit they were trying too hard. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/39 "2008-04-28T15:03:33Z")
Our first view of Oz in **The Wizard of Oz** ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186/40 "2008-04-28T16:12:50Z")
It might be stretching the rules a little bit, but the first thing that came to my mind was the first public appearance of [Superman](http://youtube.com/watch?v=_aK0ve6qdPg). It’s technically not the first time you see him, since, of course, you see Clark Kent a lot, and you even see Superman at the end of that goofy scene in the Fortress of Solitude, but it’s the first time anybody _else_ sees Superman, and it really is a great scene. One of the few I like in the movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-entrance-in-cinema-history/447186.md?page=3)