John Wayne in Stagecoach. Not high-tech or all that fancy, just classic.
I’ve gotta post one for Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke:
A half-lit parking area, a man shown from shoulder down, circling one of many parking meters. He turns, tightens an enormous pipe cutter, makes another circle. He decapitates one, the dull clank of its falling and rattle of change, and carefully sets the head back upon the curb so it won’t block the spot before moving on to the next. At length, he half sits, half collapses onto the ground, in some stage of inebriation, opens another beer with an opener kept on a chain around his neck. A car pulls up and he squints and throws up a foreshortened arm as if to ward off the headlights. The cop challenges him, speaks unseen, safe in the darkness, and the man responds with “that Luke smile of his.”
Talk about setting up a movie.
Disclaimer-Written from memory, so may not be precisely accurate…especially the bit regarding the foreshortened arm.
Good call. For your viewing pleasure.
Well, this might not be deemed to count as a ‘great entrance’ exactly, but how about Psycho and the figure who, ahem, interrupts Marion Crane’s shower? Certainly pretty memorable and dramatic.
Both Newman and Redford get great ‘entrances’ in Butch Cassidy, in the sepia-tinted introductory segment. Newman looks fantastic when we first see him checking out the bank. Redford doesn’t exactly ‘enter’, since we just see him sitting down playing cards. But he’s majestically cool, and he rules the whole scene even though he barely says a word.
Clint Eastwood riding out of the desert heatwaves inHigh Plains Drifter.
The entrance of the survivors and the descendants of the survivors that were on Oskar Schindler’s List as they came triumphantly, joyously over the top of the hill at the end of the movie.
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Well, this might not be deemed to count as a ‘great entrance’ exactly, but how about Psycho and the figure who, ahem, interrupts Marion Crane’s shower? Certainly pretty memorable and dramatic.
Since we are talking about Psycho, how about the entrance of the guy’s mother near the end of the movie?]
Salma Hayek from ** From Dusk 'Til Dawn**.
Thank you and goodnight.
Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia.
Very good call. Often noted as evidence that Ford knew what Wayne’s future held in store; there’s no question that that is an intentionally starmaking entrance.
Robert Duval in ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’.
An entrance and an exit at the same time, since his face isn’t revealed until he steps out from behind the door at the end of the movie.
Ocean’s 11 opening of the body shot of George Clooney. You know that this guy is doing anything he can to get out on parole and he is lying through his teeth.
Introducing Rueben in Ocean’s 11.
Original intro for Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon
I cannot find the one that we get the real intro to Martin, but I always thought it was pretty good at summarizing the crazy-ballsy level that Riggs was.
The Monarch’s minty fresh entrance to…his accountant’s office?
The Long Good Friday, Harold’s Entrance.
He owns that airport. Or at least he walks like he does.
Or not.
I’ll cast a third vote for Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia. I also like Grocho Marx’s entrance as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup.
Darth Vader in Star Wars.
I can’t beat Rita Hayworth or Darth Vader, but just to add to the list…
The Gimp from Pulp Fiction made quite a memorable entrance.
Ahnuld, as he looks up from the Wheel in Conan the Barbarian.
Tremendous.
I’ll fourth this, especially since I had already found an image.
It’s about as different an entrance as could be imagined from the one in the OP.