10 Best Opening Movie Scenes Of All Time (According To Reddit)

Christoph Waltz won an Academy Award for his work in Inglourious Basterds, and he had it secured within the first ten minutes of the movie.

One of the quietest, yet most nerve-shredding scenes ever put to film, the sequence where Colonel Hans Landa interrogates a French farmer and discovers that he's hiding a Jewish family underneath his floorboards is completely and utterly captivating, despite consisting of little more than two men having a conversation.

With Quentin Tarantino's expert penmanship though, a simple setup like this is elevated to the best scene in the movie. And with a true thespian like Waltz selling every single beat, every single line, and the numerous tonal shifts that occur throughout the scene, there's only one word to describe it: perfect.

Incidentally, this opening is also Tarantino's favourite thing he's ever written, high praise coming from a man with such a critically-acclaimed filmography.