Favourite film's Openings

I definitely wouldn't go too far and call these opening scenes the best in cinema history, but they are the ones that I remembered and liked.

• The most exciting, meaningful or dramatic ones:

Inglorious Basterds - the interrogation scene, between Hans Landa, a Nazi officer and Mr LaPadite, a French peasant.

Saving Private Ryan - the D-Day battle scenes, especially the soldiers trembling inside boats. The beginning is very powerful, scary and extremely realistic.

Goodfellas - the scene when two gangsters in suits are driving in a car and we hear the noise from the back ot the trunk. We can assume that there's something fishy going on.

Pulp Fiction - “This is a robbery” scene after a conversation between a romantic couple. At first, it seems like s totally meaningless babbling scene, but is a very important moment for the movie plot.

The Dark Knight - the scene of the bank robbery, performed by masked clowns. At the end of the heist, the leader (the Joker) witnesses his associates killing each other.

The Town - very exciting scenes of a bank robbery. There are masked robbers again.

Unforgiven - these scenes don't appear at the very beginning of the film, but they are shown in the first ten minutes or so. When I think of Clint Eastwood's westerns, this role comes to my mind first. I liked the role of William Munny because he was a vulnerable type of a cowboy: instead of dealing with shooting at dusty creepy guys wearing hats, he had to provide for his young children after the death of his life and had to raise pigs to survive. He was a hero whose days of fame were over.

I liked the scenes where he's chasing pigs - they are raw, realistic and different from the heroic western scenes.

• The most visually-admiring ones:

The Tree of Life - the creation of universe, the evolution of species. The most unusual beginning of a movie I've seen. It has nothing to do with the later story.

Gravity - scenes in space, showing Earth in the distance. Just beautiful.

2001: A Space Odyssey - the beginning is mysterious, it opens many questions, it is unusual and beautifully shot. The monolith, apes, the desert…the beginning is really intriguing.

The Wizard of Oz - I don't know why, but the opening scene (before the tornado) is my favorite scene of the movie. Dorothy is running with Toto from Miss Gulch and the changes in the weather emphasize the dramatic tension. Dorothy, Toto and the Kansas countryside are the stars of the movie's beginning.