Live Poll: IMDb Poll Board: Favorite Movie Opening Scene

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/mediaviewer/rm1152070400/

Opening scene of Touch of Evil

Btw, I'm pretty sure  Saving Private Ryan, as indicated by the synopsis, begins in a cemetery and not on the D-Day.

An American flag back-lighted by the afternoon sun gently flaps in the breeze. The camera pulls back to reveal the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on the English Channel in the north of France. An elderly man (Harrison Young) approaches the cemetery and walks among the rows of gravestones, which are mostly marble crosses, with an occasional Star of David marking the grave of a Jewish soldier. He is accompanied by his wife, his daughter and her husband, and three teenage granddaughters. He searches the crosses and stops at a specific one, where he falls to his knees, crying. His family walks up behind him and tries to comforts him. The camera slowly zooms in on his face, stopping at an extreme close up of his eyes.

Lion King (1994)

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The Dark Knight 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/mediaviewer/rm1143248896/

Another Day of Sun

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3783958/mediaviewer/rm4126813952/

The intro at the train station, when the bad-squinting Member of Frank's Gang  catches the fly with the muzzle of his revolver in the burning sun.

2001, the space ballet, no explanation required.

The Dark Knight, the clown-heist.

Undoubtedly, 2001 Space Odyssey. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/mediaviewer/rm3840268801

Hon. Mentions:

A Clockwork Orange

Up

I remember looking at the opening scene of The Graduate in film school as an example of how to start a film. Sadly can't find a picture of it. this is as close as l found: 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/mediaviewer/rm437009920/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/mediaviewer/rm2109187073/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/mediaviewer/rm1891083265/

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando (1985)

@BonaFideBOSS,

For your consideration:

Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/mediaviewer/rm3835004160/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/mediaviewer/rm2302712064/

The Matrix

@BonaFideBOSS 

This is the only picture I could find of the opening scene from the pictures of the movie. But if there is a better option, you can add it.

How long is an opening scene? I'm going to have a hard time figuring this one out. First thought Baby Driver ... or i was influenced by coincidence that YouTube happened to have recommended that opening scene earlier this morning.

Would Up (2009) qualify if it's a 10-minute scene? Glad someone already mentioned The Dark Knight. Don't put anything down for me yet. I'm still trying to figure my nomination out. It's not like the IMDb advance search can suss out my feelings on this particular question.

Bump.

Congratulations, @BonaFideBOSS!

IMDb Poll Board: Favorite Movie Opening Scene

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I just wanted to point out that including the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan while acknowledging that the scene doesn't really open the film while rejecting The Last Scene of the Joker in your IMDb Poll Board: Favorite Batman Scene poll suggestion because it is "more about the Joker than Batman." is to me a double-standard.