How To Make A Movie Entrance 10 ways to an unforgettable intro Tweet
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7. Milking It As King Kong proved back in 1933, an arrival can become a thing of intimidating majesty with the addition of time and some hardy jungle creepers. Jurassic Park’s T-Rex did likewise. There’s nothing like the rustle of crushed trees and mangled jungle creatures to announce a major player onto the screen. If virgin jungle is out of reach but you do have a desert handy, try emerging from a mirage like Omar Sharif in Lawrence Of Arabia. Don’t be afraid to keep people waiting here – this sequence was originally twice as long – and don’t forget to shoot someone at the end of your schlep, if you still have the energy. Django somehow does, despite dragging a coffin across most of the old West. Jack Sparrow, meanwhile, delivers a real barnstormer in Pirates Of The Caribbean by piloting a sinking boat into harbour without getting his feet wet and Julie Andrew’s Maria famously twirls her way across the Alps in The Sound Of Music. Here, of course, it’s all about building a sense of anticipation. Make like strolling Tony Manero, flying Mary Poppins or clunking Gort in The Day The Earth Stood Still and take your sweet time. Also, bring a death ray.
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1	Sharif Ali
	Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia More
	Posted by TheFlyingDeLorean on Saturday March 23, 2013, 09:52
2	Entrance of the King!
	Aragorn's introduction in the Fellowship of the ring is my all time favourite. Bathed in shadows and smoke, his eyes lighting up under the pipe embers, amazing and very very cool. More
	Posted by spaniel on Friday March 22, 2013, 16:03
3	Horatio shade moment!!
	Mel Gibson a la Mad Max, you get to see his gloves and shades racing in his car until the big reveal as he jumps out of the car and pulls of his shades.Also got to mention Mick Dundee tearing into the bar wrestling a stuffed croc...Amazing entrance More
	Posted by namelessdemon on Thursday March 21, 2013, 17:24
4	Fight Club
	Airplane diagrams. That is all. More
	Posted by Evolved As One on Wednesday March 20, 2013, 19:45
5	Apocalypse Now
	I think Brando's Kurtz should get a mention in the "Harry's Way" section More
	Posted by Dr Science on Tuesday March 19, 2013, 18:00
6	Raising Arizona
	Hi dreams of the arrival of Leonard Smalls. A big wall of flames. A bunny dies. More
	Posted by Dr Science on Tuesday March 19, 2013, 17:56
7	Dolph Lungdren in The Expendables
	"WARNING SHOT!" Technically not a movie entrance, but an excellent entrance to the villains nonetheless. More
	Posted by Evolved As One on Monday March 18, 2013, 15:20
8	Marla Singer. Fight Club.
	"This is cancer, right?" Clasic. More
	Posted by Jasper_29 on Monday March 18, 2013, 12:21
9	Who can top...?
	....swooping in at the last second and catching the love your life as she falls from a skyscraper and then catching a falling helicopter in your other hand, aka: the Superman. More
	Posted by damooc on Monday March 18, 2013, 03:23
10	Harry Lime
	The Third Man all the way! My all-time favourite movie moment. More
	Posted by Mr Gittes on Sunday March 17, 2013, 20:06
11	Rhett!
	Surely the King of Hollywood's grand-camera-swoop-down-the-stairs entrance in Gone with the Wind deserves a mention? More
	Posted by Ijustknow on Saturday March 16, 2013, 20:08
12	More recent...
	Just a suggestion, how about Captain Jack Sparrow's entrance in Curse of the Black Pearl? Sinking ship (which you are not aware of to start with) and a great music score...brilliant. PS Also a fan of Blades entrance at the nightclub, hacking up vampires to Confusion by New Order! More
	Posted by simonjrking on Saturday March 16, 2013, 10:24
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	There's the Dynamic Entry: when the characters come down from the sky More
	Posted by bubblybubbles on Saturday March 16, 2013, 06:39
14	How about....
	The chair swivel? (a la Bond villain) Can't think of loads of instances, but it seems a classic to have someone reveal by spinning 180 in their leather swivel chair! Duh, DUH, DUHHHH! More
	Posted by TheColumnist on Friday March 15, 2013, 16:26

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