Here's the classic three and a half minute opening shot of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil:
Great opening shot, although I can't stand the rest of the movie. If you're not familiar with the movie, that's star Charlton Heston as a Mexican police officer named Ramon Miguel Vargas.
And here's John Travolta as Chili Palmer in Get Shorty (one of my favorite movies) discussing some interesting trivia about Touch of Evil:
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