Top 5 Opening Scenes.

The Usual Suspects Opening Scene Review.

The Usual Suspects Opening scene is so memorable because the music in the background leaves you interested to watch the rest of the film. Also, the production with the explosion just from a cigarette blows your mind!

Here's a countdown to my favourite opening 2-3 minutes films.


5. The Lion King

This is an interesting opening because the animation of the animals and African landscape help captivate the song. With that, the help of the stage work (the memorable stone rock) and the camera work make you realise there is not limit to animations like this. Finally, my favourite part of the scene is the cubs reaction to the rattle symbolises what children do with their toys and highlights that this is a family film about family.

4. Dark Knight

This is a memorable opening because Batman is the ultimate creature of the night but this first scene is during daylight and makes you question why they are robbing during daylight. This however, immediately hooks you and makes you continue to watch the rest of the film. With that, as each robber kills off the next robber this keeps you hooked in to who will be the last one standing, and it is of course the Joker (spoiler)

  3. What If

This indie alternative rom-com sets the scene right from the start as you see the streets of Toronto and sees two different sides of this potential love by fridge magnets. With the line "love is stupid monkeys dancing in a slapstick hurricane" it helps set his tone of love (at that moment) but is changed when this woman re-vamps the fridge magnets to "we are nothing but dancing light in the restless dream of a roasted pig". These metaphors tells us these different perceptions of love and how they come together at typical events like this scene setting (NewYears)


2. The Help

The opening to this film highlights the struggle of what life was like between white and black people. This maid, tells us her life and the reality of status class and sets the scene of how this film can develop. When the maid tells us her life from the beginning, it looks as if she is looking at the camera, drawing you in at what her life is like now-a-days: a struggle but reality.

1. Gone Girl





This is the most memorable opening scene and in my opinion my favourite. The simplicity of the town, makes you question how can something bad happen to such a quite town or is the town a perception that bad things happen hence why it's so derelict. Also, the first speech intrigues you into the relationship between Nick and Amy Dunne. "I picture cracking her lovely skull unspooling her brain, trying to get answers". It's the most memorable opening scene because the camera angle of the wife looks down on her, symbolising that she is vulnerable to her husband and isn't as powerful in this moment.