Breaking the 4th wall

[4x4Tyke]

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

[SpudLink]

The one that springs immediately to mind is in Trading Places, when they are giving Eddie Murphy the idiot’s guide to how the stock market works. It’s only for a moment when he looks directly at the camera.
I like 4th wall breaks that are an exception in an otherwise standard comedy format.

[louiebaby]

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

Well done, and only used occasionally.

[XslaneyX]

Very good album

Shame the band are no more.

[StevieBee]

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!

[StevieBee]

Wayne's World...1 and 2

Any of the Austin Powers films.

[Mutley]

My 2 favourites are;

Christian Slater in Kuffs
Harvey Korman in Blazing Saddles

[Number 97]

Ferris Bueller

[Eric Mc]

Hamlet's soliloquy.

[SpudLink]

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.

[FourWheelDrift]

Spaceballs

[FourWheelDrift]

Lovejoy.

[prand]

Miranda?

[mp3manager]

The Young Ones

Neil, the bathroom's free! Unlike the country under the Thatcherite Junta!

[Cyder]

It's done well in the Wolf Of Wall Street.

[ukaskew]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, when Affleck turns to the audience and asks who would actually pay to see the movie Me and the wife went to see it at the cinema 3 or 4 times, great fun.

[GCH]

[Jimmy Recard]

SpudLink said:

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.

I haven't seen the Kevin Spacey one, but the way it was done in the BBC version was very good. It gave the feeling that Sir Francis was confiding in you and plotting with you, as you say.

[TheChampers]

Hywel Bennett in Shelley is a great example of this. There was also the added bonus of Belinda Sinclair; and yes, I'm getting oldish.

On stage Knee High use this device to great effect; I loved Dead Dog In A Suitcase (And Other Lovesongs)

[Supersam83]

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