Favorite character entrances

[Vong]

Movies are made by their characters, and in some cases, the characters have really awesome entrances on screen that either capture the moment or set the mood for the rest of the scene.
What is your favorite character entrance in a film? (provide a picture or video of the moment if you can)

My favorite?

Back to the Future: Part 3
- The future Doc Brown walks on screen with a rifle to where Marty is being hanged by Mad Dog. Doc extends his scope, takes aim, and fires.

Reloads....and says...

"It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at five hundred yards, Tannen, and it's pointed straight at your head!!!"

http://ca.geocities.com/jgilston@rogers.com/doc2.jpg


http://ca.geocities.com/jgilston@rogers.com/doc1.jpg


Such a badass!! :D

[QUENTIN]

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man.

It's the cream of the crop for this topic.

[Lazy Boy]

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West -- gotta love the camera moving from his back, circling towards his face, focusing on those intense blue eyes.

[EVILxxx]

http://z.about.com/d/scifi/1/7/_/M/2/starwars887.jpg

[Monotreme]

http://is3.okcupid.com/users/106/196/10719651384931828754/mt1113519729.jpg

With that slow dolly out... priceless.

[powersauce]

Very fitting as I'm watching this right now especially since it's the entrance of the actor in the movie as well:

http://www.prisonflicks.com/images/48Reggie1.jpg

"Roxanne! You don't have to put on the red light."

[Hannibal21]

QUENTIN already mentioned the best movie entrance of all time, so I guess I'll go with my second choice for this topic....

http://www.filmsite.org/filmfotos/gilda2.jpg

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/images/ae/reviews/gilda2.jpg

[Le_Big_Mac]

Orson Welles in The Third Man
Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Quentin Tarantino in Desperado
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn
Woody Strode, Jack Elam, and Al Mulock in Once Upon a Time in the West
Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West
Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West
Jason Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West
Brad Pitt in Fight Club (when we see him riding the moving walkway and the Narrator mentions "...waking up as different people"...priceless)
Robert Shaw in Jaws
Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future
Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Cybil Sheperd in Taxi Driver
Sean Connery in Dr. No
Ving Rhaymes in Pulp Fiction

[cuckoo2]

Phillip Baker Hall in boogie nights.

[Backstabba]

The two strangers in Strangers on a Train

[DrJellyfingers]

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange

[Monotreme]

Originally posted by cuckoo2
Phillip Baker Hall in boogie nights.
YES.

[BadCoverVersion]

Harry Lime is impossible to top.

Gotta give some props to John Doe in Se7en also.

[zeppelin]

Yea, you're not going to beat Orson Welles in The Third Man. Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West is the one that comes closest, out of those already mentioned. But even that is a somewhat distant second.

However, how has no one yet mentioned Omar Shariff's entrance in Lawrence of Arabia? That is one amazing shot.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
http://z.about.com/d/scifi/1/7/_/M/2/starwars887.jpg

Aye.

[Cronos]

gotta go with Vader, doesnt get any better than that

[Otis Driftwood]

Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs

[Hominid]

Hard to top Harry Lime, But here are some other good ones.

Don Corleone in The Godfather
George C. Scott in Patton
Tom Hulce in Amadeus
Bela in Ed Wood
Tom Cruise in Magnolia
Depp and Del Toro in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ("We were about half way through the desert when the drugs started to kick in")

[Gordon]

All are fucking excellent. Orson Welles in Third Man was terrific, although I think a few do top it. The one that comes to mind as the best would be:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Michaelmyers6years.png

[athf1980]

my top fav. movie entrences in no real order

1. Jack Sparrow entrance in POTC 1
2. Hondo entrance in Hondo
3. Hannibal Lecter-Silence of Lambs
4. Darth Vader first apperence in A New Hope
5. Ringo Kidd-Stagecoach
6. John Doe-Se7en
9. Gollum-The Two Towers
10. Stan, Kyle, Cartman, & Kenny-South Park the movie

[Hominid]

The one possibily better than Harry Lime...

Jessica Rabbit

[Derek237]

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/franken/karloff.jpg

Probably wouldn't have occured to me if I hadn't been over obsessing the movie lately, but Boris Karloff's entrance as the monster in Frankenstein is up there with all the great character entrances. Just a simple and creepy entrance. Good stuff.

[therealjohng]

Even though I knew it was coming, I would have to say that Harry Lime in The Third Man is the greatest entrance ever for a character in film.

[Vong]

Originally posted by therealjohng
Even though I knew it was coming, I would have to say that Harry Lime in The Third Man is the greatest entrance ever for a character in film.

Wow, I have to see this movie since its almost on everyone's lists. Can you find a clip of this entrance?

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by zeppelin

However, how has no one yet mentioned Omar Shariff's entrance in Lawrence of Arabia? That is one amazing shot.

Good point, that very well may be the second best ever.

Unless "The Star Child" counts as a character, but I tend to think of it more as a special effect.

Originally posted by Vong

Wow, I have to see this movie since its almost on everyone's lists. Can you find a clip of this entrance?

I'd strongly urge you NOT to watch a clip of the entrance. Much of the power and strength of the scene comes from its context in the film, out of context it is impressive perhaps, but probably not mind-blowing. Just go rent The Third Man, any serious movie lover must come to see that film at some point in their lives.

[notchreturns]

Willy Motherfucking Wanka

Gene Wilder style

[Badbird]

Nicolas Cage in Face/Off - not getting out of the car with the wind blowing... that comes later. He shoots Travolta in the intro, but his real entrance is when he's dressed as a priest at the LA convention center and grabs that choir girl's ass. Hilarious.

Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing - the most preposterous intro ever. Slow motion, drawing her sword and turning around, so we get a nice close up of her ass AND her tits in one shot ( a monet shot?).

Matthew McConauhey in Reign of Fire - riding a tank, stradling the turret like the barrel is his giant, America, dragon killing dick.

Peter Weller in Robocop 2 - His police car gets blown up and shot a million times by some gun theives. As it burns, he casually gets out and blows everyone away.

Aslan in Narnia - for over an hour everyone is talking about how great and noble and fearsome he is. Then he finally emerges. I got goosebumps.

[XCoRyX]

Its nothing serious or groundbreaking,but Phillip Seymour Hoffmans entrance in Boogie Nights as Scotty is absolutely hilarious...one to be seen...

[zeppelin]

Originally posted by Derek237
Probably wouldn't have occured to me if I hadn't been over obsessing the movie lately, but Boris Karloff's entrance as the monster in Frankenstein is up there with all the great character entrances. Just a simple and creepy entrance. Good stuff.

That is a pretty damn good entrance, but like you said, one that doesn't immediately occur to you unless you think about it.

But that one reminded me of another great entrance from a classic horror movie: Max Schreck in Nosferatu. Certainly one of the creepiest entrances I can think of. For that matter, Willem Dafoe did an excellent rendition of it in Shadow of the Vampire. Just to see how spot-on he was is quite stunning, and therefore a great entrance in itself.

I guess I could also mention Bela Lugosi's entrance in Dracula, but eh. I think it's been parodied so many times by now that it's lost much of its power.

Oh yea, and here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet either: Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. I just love that one. He starts talking in the shadows, and then he just does this thing where he jerks his head up so that one beam of light shines right on his face, and all of the tension building up around the mystique of his character throughout the movie is fulfilled in that one moment.

[Jim Law]

The T-Rex in JURASSIC PARK deserves a mention. As does Ash in ARMY OF DARKNESS. I smell a Ten Spot coming here.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Originally posted by zeppelin
But that one reminded me of another great entrance from a classic horror movie: Max Schreck in Nosferatu.

Are you talking about his entrance as the Count or

his entrance as the monster:
http://www.creaturescape.com/godsandmonsters/nosferatu/nosferatu.jpg


Indeed, very creepy.

[Vong]

Originally posted by Jim Law
The T-Rex in JURASSIC PARK deserves a mention.

I think all the dinosaurs in the movie have great entrances...especially the raptors...but good call on the T-Rex...when I first saw that on screen at 10 years old, it freaked the shit out of me!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/JurassicParkTREX.jpg/240px-JurassicParkTREX.jpg

[zeppelin]

Originally posted by XCoRyX
Its nothing serious or groundbreaking,but Phillip Seymour Hoffmans entrance in Boogie Nights as Scotty is absolutely hilarious...one to be seen...

There's another member of that cast that makes quite a memorable entrance too.