41.   In the very first scene, a biplane seems to sail off the screen and hover over the heads of the audience.

42.   In the first scene the actress playing the maid accidentally dropped a tray of dishes, and, later, several actors forgot their lines.

43.   In the first scene, the furious Monterone storms into court and accuses the Duke of seducing his daughter.

44.   Indeed, Ms. Campion toys with this in her first scene by beginning the film in figurative midstream.

45.   It is apparent from her first scene in the film that Aniston has expunged much of what defines Rachel Green.

46.   Jackson is Danny Roman, a Chicago cop whose credentials as a skilled rescuer are established in the first scene.

47.   It was the first nude scene Bannen had ever done.

48.   Like Adams in that very first scene, you may not know where to look or how to react.

49.   Ms. Carter so thoroughly shakes off her usual refinement that she plays this first scene in a flour sack looking like Little Orphan Annie.

50.   Neeson adopts a contorted expression in the first scene and keeps it pasted to his face throughout, saving him from the chore of acting.