{"id":23449,"date":"2011-07-06T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=23449"},"modified":"2011-07-06T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:47:48","slug":"50dmc-8-favorite-opening-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/50dmc-8-favorite-opening-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":"50DMC #8: Favorite Opening Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"50-Day-Challenge-08\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-23643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08-290x128.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08-454x200.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full list of questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt: <b>What is your favorite opening sequence?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">A<\/span> great opening sequence can either set the stage for a great movie or set an impossibly high bar that the rest of the movie can&#8217;t hope to live up to. I have many favorite opening sequences of both types; even those of the second type kind of gather a life on their own as that great opening sequence of a forgettable film. But at this moment, I will choose the opening of <em>Manhattan<\/em> as my favorite, and it happens to also be the beginning of a great film.<\/p>\n<p>The opening sequence of <em>Manhattan<\/em> blends three fabulous things into a whole that perfectly defines the film to come. Beautiful black and white photography of New York City with George Gershwin&#8217;s &#8220;Rhapsody in Blue&#8221; underneath, and Allen&#8217;s Isaac speaks over image and music talking about New York. But after a phrase, it turns out Isaac actually writing, trying to find the perfect opening for his novel about a New Yorker &#8211; as he goes through various options, shifting things to change the tone or the style of the piece (which, as he knows, will determine the tone of the whole novel), we not only understand more about New York City and about Isaac and about his relationship with New York, but about the kind of film we&#8217;re going to see, and the kind of people, always concerned about how they fit into their intellectual and cultural milieu, that will inhabit it. And then Isaac decides on his opening and lets Gershwin and New York reach their simultaneous climax.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyaj2P-dSi8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50 Day Movie Challenge asks one question every day, to be answered by a few paragraphs and a clip, if possible. Click here for the full list of questions. Today&#8217;s prompt: What is your favorite opening sequence? A great opening sequence can either set the stage for a great movie or set an impossibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2145,1574],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/50-Day-Challenge-08.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23419,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/50-day-movie-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":23449,"position":0},"title":"50 Day Movie Challenge","author":"Jandy","date":"June 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This challenge has been going around on Facebook and a friend is doing it on his blog, too. Since I'm not that much of a Facebook person, and am always looking for good blogging motivation, I thought I'd take up his idea and do it here. 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So\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tf-feat-Star-Wars.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":866,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/action-movie-eye-candy-the-matrix\/","url_meta":{"origin":23449,"position":3},"title":"Action Movie Eye-Candy: The Matrix","author":"Jandy","date":"December 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark suggested that I atone for my previous elitist post by posting an eye-candy action movie sequence. 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