Describe the opening shot of your top 5 films.

I don't know that this is a definitive top 5, but they're my go-to answers when asked for one.

1. A man and woman sit across from each other in a diner, the man lighting a cigarette with his back to the window.

2. Fade in: A young girl and her dog flee from an unseen antagonist.

3. A young man looks regretfully at the ground as he gets his head shaved to the upbeat sound of Johnny Wright's "Hello, Vietnam".

4. Grainy footage of a riot as a gravelly voice narrates.

5. Dissolve from final opening title to: A distant Gothic style mansion sits atop a large mountain, like an image out of Frankenstein, as a heavy snow falls, before we pull back literally through a window, where an old lady tucks her granddaughter into a comically oversized bed.