Breaking the 4th wall

[illmonkey]

Supersam83 said:

The best has to be Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Breaking the 4th wall was a main plot part in the movie.

It influenced many other movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XgFsitnQw

A slight influence on Deadpool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkKKcJWoFyQ

[Halb]

4x4Tyke said:

Spinning off an idea from the GoT thread. What are your favourite examples of breaking the 4th wall, or if you hate this tell us why.

Fight club uses it creatively for its great reveal and eXistenZ weaves the 4th wall into the layers of the narrative. Deadpool show some great self deprecating humour about the breaking the 4th wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU3Vn3xI-kA

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Thursday 24th August 12:00

https://giphy.com/gifs/actor-tom-selleck-magnum-CK...


how th frig do you present this in the post?

Edited by Halb on Friday 25th August 10:38

[FourWheelDrift]

Halb said:

https://giphy.com/gifs/actor-tom-selleck-magnum-CK...


how th frig do you present this in the post?

Edited by Halb on Friday 25th August 10:38

Do you mean like this?

[Halb]

No-one can break the fourth wall like a comedian master at his height, the best, and most influential I reckon would be Oliver Hardy, that look he would give the audience, post something with Stan, it encapsulates so much

I wish I could find the bit where Phil Silvers tries to get into the crowd at the end of It's A Mad Mad MAd Mad World, that's ace too.

[FourWheelDrift]

I think Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, in fact probably all the silent stars did it. Probably because of their theatre and music hall training, working the audience.

[P5BNij]

Michael Caine in Alfie.

[SpeckledJim]

Margot Robbie in The Big Short.

Memorable to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSPG0TPf84

[Shilvers]

This:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azy6CnsU0sM

[Halb]

FourWheelDrift said:

I think Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin, in fact probably all the silent stars did it. Probably because of their theatre and music hall training, working the audience.

Yeah you're right, Keaton's face....dramady. I thought of Keaton (and CC) when I typed, as well as the myriad of others that no-one remembers, but I didn't like watching them.
The only other silent star that I could watch was Harold Lloyd. In thinking of the famous Ollie look though, this was post sound, which made it all the more. I think Stan and Ollie were the only ones to be big stars in both silent and talkies.

[Lance Catamaran]

Black Dynamite, where one of the characters starts reading his stage directions. Something I never noticed until it was pointed out, but after he does so Dynamite just glances off screen at the director


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoWVRhgEqI

[AnotherClarkey]

Fleabag.

[Pickled]

Another Mel Brooks film, Blazing Saddles - They literally break a wall to break the 4th wall and I'm sure the 4th wall was broken in Young Frankenstein as well.

Alfie (Caine's version)

Didn't Monty Python do it a fair bit?

[FourWheelDrift]

Pickled said:

I'm sure the 4th wall was broken in Young Frankenstein as well.

"Blücher!"



+ many more.

[SpudLink]

Pickled said:

Another Mel Brooks film, Blazing Saddles - They literally break a wall to break the 4th wall and I'm sure the 4th wall was broken in Young Frankenstein as well.

Alfie (Caine's version)

Didn't Monty Python do it a fair bit?

It was pretty standard for Python on TV, but also used it in their films. I think my favourite example is in Meaning of Life, when they apologise for the supporting feature breaking into the main film.

[ajprice]

Amelie

[FourWheelDrift]

A Clockwork Orange, lots of looks to camera.

Cheers.

[Zad]

SpudLink said:

StevieBee said:

louiebaby said:

Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, although I'm still a couple of series behind...

Well done, and only used occasionally.

Done remarkably well. In the last season, you feel you want to punch the screen!

The BBC version from the early ‘90s used the occasional aside to the audience, as a way of making you feel complicit in Francis Urquhart’s machinations.

Very much so



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQPkvKhU4tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29UxcbHbPY

[4x4Tyke]

I never expected so many brilliant examples.

[Halb]

FourWheelDrift said:

Do you mean like this?

Magnum came up in chat today. We were discussing thr golden days of UK tv, which were the crappy days of US telly, the 80s, but we both agreed Magnum stood out as a show that can be genuinely enjoyed today, this was due to it's stars, it's writing

[Beati Dogu]

Airplane it the one that springs to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEXLCOqapWk