What’s your favorite type of opening shot for a movie? Is it when they drop you in the middle of their world and expect you to catch up immediately? Is it when they slyly insert a spoiler that you don’t realize is important yet? Or maybe it’s when they neatly bookend the film with the beginning and end of the movie having the same scene. My favorite is when it’s a mysteriously gorgeous shot of the world of the film. Like in Blade Runner.
Here is CineFix’s list for the top 10 best opening shots of all time (and the style the scene is done in):
Long Take – Touch of Evil
Long Take – The Player
Long Scene – Flowers of Shanghai
Movie Microcosm – Day for Night
Movie Microcosm – Fight Club
Space – Contact
In Media Res – Star Wars: A New Hope
Beautiful – Apocalypse Now
Beautiful – Raging Bull
Symmetry – The Searchers
