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What are some gripping opening lines from films or books, and why do you think they work so well?

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[info]lady_dizzy Writer's Block: Awesome Openers






"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt." Die Verwandlung - Franz Kafka

Actually I don't kn
 
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[info]olgarch Тема дня: Потрясающие вступления
Где-то на Земле есть линия
По одну сторону этой линии те,
Кто хотели победы очень сильно,
По другую - те, кто хотел её чуть меньше
 
God says
[info]ljswritersblock Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
Come on over to [info]ljswritersblock, the new archive community for old Writer's Block questions!
 
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[info]newbiepoet Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"Last night I dreamt I went to manderley..."
~Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
one of my favourite books of all time, such an ingenious plot.

"The night was as black as the inside of a cat&quo
 
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[info]tjfoxx Writer's Block: Awesome Openers


For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a dooms
 
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[info]tatyana_rtv Колонка автора: Потрясающие вступления

Хм, самое странное, что это строки о смерти:
Когда я буду умирать
И верь тебе недолго ждать
Ты перенесть меня вели
 
beach, girl
[info]mrclucks Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
 "Where you're supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arrangments and stuffed mushrooms all over the house.  This is called scene setting: w
 
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[info]boranzohn Writer's Block: Awesome Openers


Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red still tops my list. Opening a book with a chapter entitled 'I Am a Corpse' would really catch your attention. ;)
 
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[info]permanentthief Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--to see if she would swallow a butt whole."

It's fro
 
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[info]1_bibliophiliac Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
Oh my goodness... so many great opening lines, so little time...

I'll stick to printed fiction...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dre
 
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[info]heiress_trial Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"Perhaps we can frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination...gentlemen" Then the chandelier sparks  and"Da da da da da da!!!" the haunting organ melody of the ov
 
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[info]killintheheart Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instument of my mother's death, but becaus
 
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[info]ksana_nino Колонка автора: Потрясающие вступления

Нам не дано постигнуть смысл жизни, ибо он непостижим, нам известно только одно: мы брошены в этот мир, чтобы есть и оставаться в живых до тех пор, пока у нас хватит сил. (Р.Бах "Чайка")

 
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[info]filmfanatic101 Writer's Block: Awesome Openers

-"You killed him!"
-"No...I gave him life"
from Re-Animator..just the best,you hook onto it immediately:)
 
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[info]gothgate Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
 

to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with wind.

Dhalgren, Samuel Delany

#1 on my desert island list.

 
[info]rascalyboy Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
Right, here come a lot. Because I'm an English major, that's why.

"Shaun... Shaun?" - Shaun of the Dead
Grabs our attention, sets up the zoned-out feel of the first act of the movie, and introduces the
 
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[info]superinsane95 Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"Prosper, they can't send you to an orphanage. They can't. You're my brother. We have to stick together. Prosper, please don't leave me."

This is obviously the opening to The Thief Lord. It's a very ch
 
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[info]nelaeni Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice - pretty much sums up the tone and topic of the b
 
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[info]almostloverxx Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
walking away its not the same as running is it
do you know that youve run this in the ground?

and you say take this, this medicine is just what you deserve.
swallow, choke, and die

and this bitter pill i
 
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[info]e_leona Колонка автора: Потрясающие вступления

What are some gripping opening lines from films or books, and why do you think they work so well?

 


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 - Тебя посОдЮт - а ты не воруй!
 
I can be cruel
[info]heartmender6 Writer's Block: Awesome Openers
I can't exactly really remember the lines. But Twilight has some gripping lines. Not in the beginning. The Prologue maybe but not the beginning.
It's a great book.

http://stepheniemeyer.com/

 

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