What is the best opening scene/ sequence of any movie? And why is it the animated Lion King?

  • @Zonetrooper
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    71 year ago

    I am really, really glad that someone else had said this before I got here.

    The opening of ANH is a really great demonstration of minimalist storytelling. Not a moment of design - starship, character, action, nothing - is wasted; every interaction conveys something be it emotion or plot points. And after forcing the audience to sit through the opening crawl, I think that deluge of information is needed - anything less would have lost the audience.