Best opening lines from a Movie, Book or Song?

OutlawPete · 2010-02-08 13:18:56

So, what opening lines from Movies, Plays, Books or Songs do you think are the best? My choices would be: Book: "It is always difficult to find a beginning." - An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan. Movie: "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Gangster" - Goodfellas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPseYjMNao…

08-02-2010 02:18PM

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So, what opening lines from Movies, Plays, Books or Songs do you think are the best?

My choices would be:

Book:

"It is always difficult to find a beginning." - An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan.

Movie:

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Gangster" - Goodfellas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPseYjMNao

Song:

"Your daddy works in porno
Now that mommy's not around,
She used to love her heroin
But now she's underground"

My Michelle - Guns n' Roses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dBU55S6P0

EDIT: Could people quoting a movie, book or song please say which movie, song or book that it comes from.

Saves people (particualrly me) having to Google it.

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#2 08-02-2010 02:22PM

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/sits back to watch several "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" roll in.

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#3 08-02-2010 02:24PM

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The Lion King - Circle of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc

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Novel - "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

Kafka - Metamorphosis

Movie "****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****! ****!"

Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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#5 08-02-2010 02:30PM

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Call me Ishmael.

But yeah, the Evil Cradling intro is a great one.

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#6 08-02-2010 02:30PM

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Trainspotting - Choose Life

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#7 08-02-2010 02:45PM

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Film and Song - Apocalypse Now and The End.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0DxJVWhGw

"Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter."

Book - "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring." - Animal Farm, George Orwell.

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#8 08-02-2010 02:48PM

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"it was the day my grandmother exploded."

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A man in a hat entered the room.

Someone was goin to go it - might as well get it out of the way.

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#10 08-02-2010 02:55PM

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Movie: When I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away - IDENTITY

Song: Ministry - Rio Grande Blood

And now a message from the President of the United States George W. Bush:
I've adopted sophisticated terrorist tactics
And I'm a dangerous, dangerous man
With dangerous, dangerous weapons
I want to drain the coal resources in America
And foreign sources of crude oil.
I'm a weapon of mass destruction
And I'm a brutal dictator
And I'm evil

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#11 08-02-2010 02:55PM

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From a movie I watched recently..

Ass Invaders 14

Cindy: "Oh you forgot your work tools, why don't you just fuk me instead?"

Great plot actually.. but largely centered around that opening line.

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#12 08-02-2010 02:57PM

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The start of Intermission. Could only find the Spanish version on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCu6dxil5D4

The dialogue was pretty forgettable anyway, since it was what happens that was interesting.

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#13 08-02-2010 02:57PM

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Garth Marenghi: The Told - (TV Show "Darkplace" Episode - "Scotch Mist")

Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and shit. This was the worst day of her life.

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#14 08-02-2010 02:58PM

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''we were somewhere around barso on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.."

Opening line from Fear and Loathing in LasVegas

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#15 08-02-2010 02:59PM

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civis_liberalis wrote: »

The start of Intermission. Could only find the Spanish version on youtube..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EGCC9NNvo

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#16 08-02-2010 03:03PM

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either

Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child.

or

People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.

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#17 08-02-2010 03:04PM

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civis_liberalis wrote: »

The start of Intermission. Could only find the Spanish version on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCu6dxil5D4

The dialogue was pretty forgettable anyway, since it was what happens that was interesting.

FYP:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EGCC9NNvo

The dialogue is brilliant, it's key to the whole scam so it is, especially how semi-poetic he was trying to be!

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#18 08-02-2010 03:04PM

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#19 08-02-2010 03:07PM

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Tigger wrote: »

either

Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child.

that aint the first line (in the film anyway)

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#20 08-02-2010 03:10PM

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I was twelve going on thirteen the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959—a long time ago. But only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world.

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#21 08-02-2010 03:11PM

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Book: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

"Sometimes I wish I had a cat. All I've ever had was a head, and that the seagulls took."

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"We skipped the light fandango"

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#22 08-02-2010 03:13PM

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"Okay, so what do you call yourself? Heh, como se llama?"

"Antonio Montana. And you.. whatchu call your self??"

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#23 08-02-2010 03:16PM

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Riskymove wrote: »

that aint the first line (in the film anyway)

oh

i believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but -- I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a boyfriend; not an Italian.

yeah thas even better

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#24 08-02-2010 03:17PM

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D1976 wrote: »

I was twelve going on thirteen the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959—a long time ago. But only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world.

I don't know why Stephen King writes so much horror.

From that one non-horror book, Different Seasons, three movies were made.

Amazing.

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#25 08-02-2010 03:17PM

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This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

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#26 08-02-2010 03:20PM

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Magnus wrote: »

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

Well, know that you've finished fapping, would you care to answer the OP's question?

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#27 08-02-2010 03:22PM

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Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Well, know that you've finished fapping, would you care to answer the OP's question?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNh1FcuaU00

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#29 08-02-2010 03:30PM

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All the streets are crammed with things
Eager to be held
I know what hands are for
And I'd like to help myself
You ask me the time
But I sense something more
And I would like to give you
What I think you're asking for
You handsome devil
Oh, you handsome devil

The Smiths - Handsome Devil

First thing to spring to mind, for whatever reason.

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#30 08-02-2010 03:36PM

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Although you cuold keep going with the rest of the book. It's all good.

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#31 08-02-2010 03:38PM

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Song.

Fair Warning by Todd Rundgren

You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it
The supreme court won't do it,
The president and the congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the H-bomb won't do it,
The sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it,
And I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it

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