Best opening lines from a Movie, Book or Song?

08-02-2010 03:41PM

best song opening could be NWA

Let's describe a certain female. A female with the disease of character
and attitude. If you will a snob. However in a view of NWA...

Penn · 08-02-2010 03:42PM

Mallrats:

One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck up his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrasing for my relatives and all, but the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So, I run into him a week later in the mall and he's buying another cat. And I says to him: 'Jesus, Walt! What are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck in your ass too. Why don't you knock it off?' And he said to me: 'Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?' My cousin was a weird guy.

chakotha · 08-02-2010 03:42PM

Rounders - "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker."

Morlar · 08-02-2010 03:43PM

Song
Ghostrider by Suicide

ghostrider, motorcycle hero
bebebebebebebe he's lokkin' so cute
sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit

Rollins Band On My Way To The Cage lyrics

On my way to the cage
I'm getting taught a lesson
On my way to the cage
I'm choking on the medicine

I_am_Jebus · 08-02-2010 03:44PM

Or

Song (Spoken)

Love and Death and an American Guitar (aka Wasted Youth) by Jim Steinman

I remember everything!
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
I was barely seventeen, and I once killed a boy with a Fender guitar
I don't remember if it was a telecaster or a stradacaster
But I do remember that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel

Tigger · 08-02-2010 03:46PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

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

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

Amazing.

short well written stories are a much better basis for a screenplay than novells

that book was brilliant

AnonoBoy · 08-02-2010 03:49PM

"Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart."

Absolutely sublime......

mikom · 08-02-2010 03:50PM

Songs........

Hello. How are you?
Have you been alright, through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights That's what I'd say. I'd tell you everything If you'd pick up that telephone.
Telephone Line

Trudging slowly over wet sand.
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen.
Every Day Is Like Sunday

Movie............

TRUCK DRIVER: That's East Proctor, and all about 'ere are t'moors. I go this way.
JACK: Thanks for the ride, sir. You have lovely sheep.
TRUCK DRIVER: Boys, keep off the moors. Stick to the roads, and the best of luck.

American Werewolf In London

Clano · 08-02-2010 03:51PM

:cool:The start of once upon a time in the wild west was pretty epic!!
Barely a word spoke for 20 minutes!!

OutlawPete · 08-02-2010 03:55PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

"Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart."

Absolutely sublime......

Damn you Anono, damn you for making me Google that

Sleepy · 08-02-2010 04:00PM

Film:
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

NothingMan · 08-02-2010 04:00PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Damn you Anono, damn you for making me Google that

Damn you Pete for making me extra curious! Then again i'm extremely happy I didn't know that.

AnonoBoy · 08-02-2010 04:01PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Damn you Anono, damn you for making me Google that

I'm feeling particularly evil today. :cool:

AntoSRFC · 08-02-2010 04:17PM

Clano wrote: »

:cool:The start of once upon a time in the wild west was pretty epic!!
Barely a word spoke for 20 minutes!!

If thats the one by the railway station ye its great.

OutlawPete · 08-02-2010 04:24PM

AntoSRFC wrote: »

If thats the one by the railway station ye its great.

That's Once Upon A Time In West, not sure if that's the one they mean.

Seen that in the IFI last year for the first time - amazing film.

Near three hours long but flys by.

strobe · 08-02-2010 05:51PM

Not really my favourite, just the ones that spring to mind.

Book:
"It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime."

Song:
"Ain't it fun when you're always on the run
Ain't it fun when your friends despise what you've become
Ain't it fun when you get so high
Well...that you just can't come
Ain't it fun when you know that you're gonna die young"

Movie:
"I looked them up. They're aphids. They're in my hair, on my skin, in my lungs. And the pain, Barris, it's unreasonable. They're all over the place. Oh, they've completely gotten Millie too."

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 08-02-2010 05:57PM

song: Steel Panther - Death to all but metal

"Fcuk the goo goo dolls, they can suck my balls!"

Lux23 · 08-02-2010 06:06PM

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

The Catcher in the rye

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Middlesex

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

The Bell Jar

McChubbin · 08-02-2010 06:13PM

Superbad Opening Titles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlX_O4s67Dk

Sin City opening scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17kHj-TNOc

Clano · 08-02-2010 06:28PM

AntoSRFC wrote: »

If thats the one by the railway station ye its great.

Yeah thats it!! the 2 boys have 2 horses with them and your man says they have 1 too many haha

Alessandra · 08-02-2010 06:35PM

I did English in first year of my degree. We read a book called "The Go-Between" and it opened "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there". Always thought it was a great opening.

jumpguy · 08-02-2010 06:38PM

A man in a hat entered the room. He took off the hat. “It's you!” They all said. At the same time like a class speaking to a teacher. “Hahaha Hello gentleman”, the man in the hat said, putting the hat on the table. “And hello ladies he said. Turning to the ladies and lifting his hat politely. “Leave us alone Trent!” The women said. Perhaps it was because the were angry at him for something he had done in the past, a long, long time ago. Or perhaps it was because he was holding a gun at them! The gun came from nowhere. He had got it out of his pocket and now both bullets were aimed at the people.”Say your prayers!” The man said but one of the men grabbed the gun, knocking the table with the hat on it and some other things on the floor. A vase got broken. Now the gun was in the other hands and we would have to wait and see if it was the right hands.

I just couldn't stop reading after that...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-02-2010 06:43PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'm feeling particularly evil today. :cool:

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

Fr Pat Noise · 08-02-2010 06:47PM

"Greetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friends; future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable; that is why you are here. And now for the first time we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that faithful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, my friends, we can not keep this a secret any longer; let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts about the grave robbers from outer space?"

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Corholio · 08-02-2010 06:50PM

Patrick Kenzie: I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those. I lived on this block my whole life; most of these people have. When your job is to find people who are missing, it helps to know where they started. I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. This city can be hard. When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to His children. "You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves"

Casey Affleck's opening monologue in "Gone Baby Gone". Had me hooked from then on in. Terrific.

Hazys · 08-02-2010 06:51PM

There is nothing more beautiful than this opening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQrynJCQO0

mikom · 08-02-2010 06:52PM

Hazys wrote: »

There is nothing more beautiful than this opening:

Snow white, is it?

TheBandit · 08-02-2010 06:52PM

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

George Orwell, 1984

Hazys · 08-02-2010 06:52PM

Corholio wrote: »

Patrick Kenzie: I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those. I lived on this block my whole life; most of these people have. When your job is to find people who are missing, it helps to know where they started. I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. This city can be hard. When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to His children. "You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves"

Casey Affleck's opening monologue in "Gone Baby Gone". Had me hooked from then on in. Terrific.

Haha i looked through the thread to see if somebody had already posted this...i skipped over the last post in the thread!

EDIT: You actually posted as i posted

Nevyn · 08-02-2010 06:53PM

"It starts with a knife in the dark...."

Best opening lines from a Movie, Book or Song?

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