Top 10 Best Opening Lines in Movies

We talked about starting on a high note. Who am I? Are you sure you want to know? Welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Movie Opening Lines. Hello, my name is Forrest Forrest Gump for this list. Taking a look at the most iconic first

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of dialogue spoken in

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, as many of these first

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tie into major plot points and larger themes, a spoiler alert is probably in order for member 10, one hundred thousand. streets by car, there are one hundred thousand streets in the city. known only as the driver our anonymous protagonists entire identity revolves around cars good time on site i give you a five minute window he works as a getaway driver but will only offer his services for exactly five minutes after that you will be alone any Anything happens in those five minutes and I'm yours, no matter what happens, anything happens in a minute on either side of that and you're on your own, do you understand that five minutes may not seem like much and not all escapades go smoothly However, The Driver knows the city streets like the back of his hand and knows how to make himself disappear, which is even better reminiscent of a film noir antihero.

The driver's

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lines say so much about his emotionally distant nature while saying so little, which is appropriate. for a man of few words number nine choose life Trainspotting choose life choose a job choose a career choose a family when you are an addict you dedicate your entire world to one thing and one thing only I chose not to choose life I chose something else and the reasons but all my reasons these reasons when you got your head on the drug addict mark rentboy Renton has been a slave to heroin for years now he's looking to finally pick up something else I'm cleaning up and moving on. and choose life, as Renton states in the poetic

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of Trainspotting, there are so many things one can choose, a job, a career, family, the list goes on and on, above all, Renton encourages his audience to choose life, all the wonderful things that life offers.

It's easy to let it go though when you're convinced that heroin is all you need, you can't stay here doing some heroin and sick, thanks Paul, whatever, the boys go out with Amy, with me number 8, drugs began to take hold. Fear and Hate in Las Vegas we were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs started taking over talking about drugs. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sounds like one big acid trip. I remember seeing something like, "It's fitting that the ral Dukes story begins." Just as the drugs began to take effect, there was suddenly a terrible roar around us and the sky was filled with what looked like huge bats, all flying, screeching and diving around the car from the moment our main characters reached the edge. of the desert.

The film plummets into madness and never takes a 30 minute break, it was going to be so close, in addition to setting the stage perfectly, this opening also captures the essence of our narrator. Duke is constantly making observations and talking as if he were writing a novel in his head, there is nothing in the world more helpless, irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and he knew that we didn't know that that rotten thing very soon, of course, most of his rants are completely ridiculous, the man could only come from a totally crazy mind our energy would simply prevail we had all the momentum we were riding the crest of a wave high and beautiful number seven I'm Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Full Metal Jacket I'm Gunnery Sergeant Hartman your senior instructor few directors know how to open a movie better than Stanley Kubrick Alex's first monologue from A Clockwork Orange continues to give us chills to this day there was me, who is Alex and my three falls In his Pete Georgie and subdued, however, we have decided to highlight the stimulating Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

Full Metal Jacket's introductory speech and my orders are to eliminate all non-hackers who don't pack the gear to serve my beloved car. This film immediately throws the audience into basic military training that can seem as hellish as real combat when you have a ruthless drill sergeant barking orders. Hartman is a relentless force who never stops insulting his cadets from the moment he opens his mouth. it's clear that it will eventually push one of these young worms over the edge number six music or misery hi-fi what came first music oh misery, although pop music is often seen as upbeat and fun, most genres , the songs are surprisingly about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery, and loss.

People are worried about children playing with these guns or watching violent videos. Some kind of culture of violence will take over. No one cares that children listen to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss, so why do we still listen to them? Is pop music the root of all our misery or do we listen to pop music because we are miserable. These are the questions Rob Gordon asks at the beginning of hi-fi you don't have to leave this second you can stay as long as it takes with a love life that sounds like a broken record Rob contemplates whether sad music can be even more harmful than guns toy and violent

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in any case, Rob could definitely use a more light-hearted mixtape.

I listened to pop music because I was miserable because I listen to number five pop music. The Tyler Durden Fight Club people always ask me if I know Tyler Durden so you know that spoiler warning. what we talked about before, it was mainly for anyone who has not yet seen Fight Club with a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels, this David Fincher masterpiece is known for having one of the greatest cinematic twists ever revealed by Edward Norton's narrator. It's also Tyler Durden, you told us you'd say that too. What's so ironic about this twist is that the narrator basically gives it away with his first line throughout the entire movie, yet the audience doesn't realize it.

I know because Tyler knows. It's not until you watch Fight Club for the second time that you pick up on this clever foreshadowing that makes you appreciate the film even more. We have front row seats to this theater of mass destruction. Number four the first time I saw a dead human being. standby was 12 years old and I was 13 the first time I saw a dead human being standby is about the life-changing moment that marks the transition from a child to adulthood for Gordie LaChance that moment was when he first saw a dead human being It happened in the summer of 1959 a long time ago, but only if you measure it in terms of years, the beginning of the film finds an older Gordy reminiscing about his childhood friendships and the trip that changed their lives forever.

I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock, there were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people, but to me it was the whole world. In addition to engaging the audience, this opening line highlights the bittersweet feeling of nostalgia that makes us long for a simpler time. It happens that sometimes friends come. In and out of your life as a busboy at a restaurant, childhood passes quickly and is easy to take for granted as Gordy completes his memoirs, although he remembers the importance of looking to the future. I will never leave this city in my anything bloody number three I believe in America The Godfather I believe in America America as my fortune made and I raised my blood and American fashion we are all taught to believe in the American dream, although the sad truth is that sometimes the American dream lets us down and the only way to get justice is by looking for someone like Don Vito Corleone and we both faced Buster then I told my wife for justice to be done we must go to Don Corleone II the masterful opening of The Godfather focuses on an Italian man pleading with Vito to kill the boys who disfigured his daughter I don't give you anything questions they have known each other for many years but this is the first time you come to advise Vito in the end he agrees to Do him justice and have the young people horribly defeated Accept this justice is a gift On my daughter's wedding day As The Godfather gives instructions to his executioner, we are forced to contemplate if he is keeping the American dream alive or if he is the reason why the American dream is dead.

I'm trustworthy people, people aren't going to let you go number two for as long as I can remember Goodfellas for as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster some kids dream of being president but Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster this line sums up Henry in a nutshell words Being a gangster was better than being President of the United States like many of the other characters in Goodfellas. He's a selfish sob, he does what he wants and takes what he wants with no regard for those who get caught in the crossfire most of the time. guys, murders had to be accepted, murder was the only way everyone stayed in line, he got out of line, you got beat up, everyone knew the rules in Henry's mind, being a gangster means owning of the world, it was where I knew I belonged and to me it meant being someone in the neighborhood that was full of nobodies.

Henry does indeed achieve all the power and wealth he ever dreamed of. Until his inevitable downfall, an average nobody can live the rest of their life like an idiot, even then Henry is just glad he got a taste of the gangster lifestyle and wouldn't change a thing. Look, the hardest thing for me was leaving life. I was still loving life before we came to our first choice. Here are some honorable mentions. There is an old joke. older women are at a Catskill Mountain Resort and one of them says boy the food at this place is really terrible, the other says I know and such small portions, that's essentially how I feel about life, you can do it, Yes, he didn't call. me to fight him for me you are a love that still rings in my ears the movie must remain in my thoughts yes this is Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles California it is around five in the morning there is the homicide squad complete with detectives and journalists Between the time the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the children of Arias there was an unimaginable era: the number one rosebud citizen Kane sometimes a small word can have the greatest impact of all, in this case rosebud begins what is often considered the greatest film of all time Charles Foster Kane's last word Rosebud sends a journalist on an investigation to discover its true meaning.

He never discovers exactly what Rosebud means, but the audience discovers that personifies the only thing that the richest man in the world could not buy his lost childhood no, I don't think so, no sir. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and lost it maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get him something he lost coming full circle. It's easy to see why Citizen Kane is a masterpiece from start to finish. Do you agree with our list? Well, the opening line of the movie instantly piqued your interest. I'm here to see more entertaining top 10s posted every day.

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