"What's your favourite opening line in a movie?" Topic

Please note, it isn't What's the opening line for your favourite movie. Nothing to stop it coming from a really bad film.

Klytus, I'm bored.

There goes our salvage guys.

"In the First World War and for the first time in the history of man…" from the intro to the 1953 version of "War Of The Worlds"(spoken by Paul Frees).And after the opening credits,Sir Cedric Hardwicke's"..in the middle of the 20th century.."narrative. Similarly,Morgan Freeman's updated version in the remake.

Who's there?

Saigon. I'm still only in Saigon….

"Are we still shooting people?"

"Hey baby. Lets go upstairs."

Or…

"What I would like to do today is get your version of what happened"
"You mean the truth"

or.

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…"

Lean and hungry. Still Nothing?

I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead body.

"If they move, kill them"-The Wild Bunch

"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." – Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

"I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm." – The Third Man

"Tradition!"
--Fiddler on the Roof

"Some people lose their faith because God doesn't show them enough…….I lost my faith because He showed me too much…"-The Prophecy

-Who are you?
-We are three wise men.
-What?!
-We are three wise men.
-Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o'clock in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me.

Pat

"On the 23rd Day of the Month of September in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence, and this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places…"
Little Shop of Horrows – 1986

" This is our land. A land of peace and of plenty. A land of harmony and hope. This is our land. Oceania."

1984 – the 1984 version with John Hurt.

Another being

"Saigon……." from Apocalypse Now.

My name is Ash and I am a slave. Close as I can figure, the year is thirteen hundred A.D and I'm being dragged to my death. It wasn't always like this, I had a real life, once. A job.

technically not the opening dialog but the opening narrative:
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."

"Well I'm not saying I've been everywhere or done everything . . ." Big Trouble in Little China

"The world has changed. I feel it in the water."

"The duellist demands satisfaction. For him honour is an appetite." The Duellists, natch.

Or

"Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of." Conan (Big Arnie version).

"Long ago, the Duke of Milan commissioned a little known artist to erect a mammoth statue of a horse. The time was 1481. The artist was Leonardo da Vinci. The guy on the donkey's just a guy on a donkey."

"I had known Betty for a week" – Betty Blue

"This is the universe. Big, isn't it?" – A Matter of Life and Death

"Next subject: Kowalski, Leon. Engineer, waste disposal. File section: New employee, six days" – Blade Runner (First spoken lines by the announcer in all versions, I think).

Oh, 'opening line'… not 'opening scene'… hmmm…

I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi…

"Any one o' you lily livered, bow-legged varmints care to slap leather with me?!" – Yosimite Sam from the Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. – Spoken by the Stranger

The world is changed,I feel it in the water,i feel it in the Earth………..Galadriel in The Lord of The Rings.

Call me Ishmael – Moby Dick

I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand this? – Full Metal Jacket

She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on. We'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em – Wizard of Oz

and

You're only wasting your time writing speeches like that. Why worry about the people and their problems? Think of your own. – The Devil and Daniel Webster

Not "the" opening line but the end of the opening dialog. " I asked for a mission, and for my sins they gave me one"

"Marley was dead to begin with."

Okay. But if I'm gonna be your attorney, there are a few things that I have to know that, uh, still don't make any sense to me. Like, um, you really believe in magic?

"Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jewelled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!"

Conan The Barbarian.

"I don't believe in God but I fear him".
"I believe in God but I fear Keysor Soaze".
The Usual Suspects

or

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Four Weddings and a Funeral

"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.
Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooters, the fastest runners, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.
Now, we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know, by God I, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against, by God, I do. We're not just going to shoot the bastards; we're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun bastards by the bushel.
Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty.
The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.
Now there's another thing I want you to remember: I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose.
Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you: "What did you do in the great World War II?" You won't have to say, "Well, I shoveled in Louisiana."
Alright, now, you sons-of-bitches, you know how I feel. Oh… I will be proud to lead you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere.
That's all."

Star light star bright I wish I was a thousand miles from here tonight.

Near Dark

"People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden"

A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year 10191…

The "Apocalypse Now" line already quoted:

Saigon. S***t, I'm still only in Saigon.

"Say, any of you boys smithies?"

I have a few:

"He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew."
-Lawrence of Arabia

"Emily, I have a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor. But marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse." – Duck Soup

"The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone."
- Airplane

"…Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." – Patton (someone beat me to it)

"I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand this?"
- Full Metal Jacket (oops, someone beat me to it)

"Saigon. S--t! I'm still only in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle…" (someone beat me again)
- Apocalypse Now

"What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett. The war is gonna start any day now, so it won't affect college anyhow." – Gone With the Wind

"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, Dear Father."
- It's A Wonderful Life

"Apaches, Captain! The hills are swarmin' with 'em."
- Stagecoach

"There's an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.' The other one says: 'Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly." – Annie Hall