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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 13, 2023 17:15:06 GMT
"The one that I immediately think of is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
He even tells us at the end to "Go Home.""
Yeah, possibly my first personal experience with that sort of thing. I can't remember now if it's that one or some other John Hughes movie where an exasperated character, struggling for a reply to something said that he finds preposterous, takes a second to glance at the audience as if saying "It's him, right?" I want to say it's when Cameron tells Ferris nothing good happened on the day the movie takes place, but I might be getting it mixed up with another movie.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 14, 2023 16:12:57 GMT
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) -- happens a few times in this film
There is the "Get on with it" scene, in which Dingo, Zoot's twin sister, asks the audience if the scene should have been cut, even though she believes it to be better than some of the other scenes. This is when other characters address her through the break she's made in the fourth wall to entreat her to get on with it.
(No video here -- some not-G-rated dialogue)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 14, 2023 16:16:29 GMT
Yeah, possibly my first personal experience with that sort of thing. I can't remember now if it's that one or some other John Hughes movie where an exasperated character, struggling for a reply to something said that he finds preposterous, takes a second to glance at the audience as if saying "It's him, right?" I want to say it's when Cameron tells Ferris nothing good happened on the day the movie takes place, but I might be getting it mixed up with another movie.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 17, 2023 2:37:56 GMT
What's Up, Doc? (1972) -- Ryan O'Neal looks to the audience and begs for "HELP!" when Barbra Streisand introduces herself as his fiancé, Eunice.
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 17, 2023 7:19:18 GMT
What's Up, Doc? (1972) -- Ryan O'Neal looks to the audience and begs for "HELP!" when Barbra Streisand introduces herself as his fiancé, Eunice.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 17, 2023 14:03:46 GMT
I don't like that I enjoyed this movie. It makes me think less of myself. |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 17, 2023 14:21:38 GMT
History of the World: Part I (1981) -- A couple times, Mel Brooks tells us it's good to be the king.
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Post by vannorden on Mar 19, 2023 22:17:17 GMT
One of the most overt examples of breaking the fourth wall has to be from Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), notably in the scene when Allen's waiting in line with the "pontificator" dismissing Fellini's Satyricon (1969) and Juliet of the Spirits (1965) as "indulgent." An exasperated Allen even whips out Marshall McLuhan! A great moment of self-reflexivity in cinema.
Also, no one breaks the fourth wall quite like Maurice Chevalier. He and Jeanette MacDonald do it several times in the Lubitsch musicals, especially One Hour With You (1932).
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 20, 2023 15:43:36 GMT
And another one good at breaking that wall------
Sepiatone
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 28, 2023 15:54:10 GMT
I don't mean to muck up your thread, but I have to add... Some of my favorite fourth wall breaks are in the bloopers and outtakes from films. And of course from television The Carol Burnett Show became famous for their fourth wall breaks. We all tuned hoping for a doozie each week. The clip Vicki speaks of below is at the very end of this 13 minute reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5C6Xp3pwAVicki Lawrence on an infamous blooper on "The Carol Burnett Show" - EMMYTVLEGENDS This was the shortest little sampler reel I could find of a couple of breaks |
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 28, 2023 17:49:30 GMT
There are a few scenes of breaking the fourth wall in the 1965 movie "Ship of Fools." From memory, I don't think it was effective in this movie. Instead, it only served to break the narrative flow and spoil the illusion that you were "watching" the lives of the people on the ship. It's still a good movie, but its use of the "fourth wall thing" detracted overall.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 28, 2023 20:12:04 GMT
I don't mean to muck up your thread, but I have to add... Some of my favorite fourth wall breaks are in the bloopers and outtakes from films. And of course from television The Carol Burnett Show became famous for their fourth wall breaks. We all tuned hoping for a doozie each week. The clip Vicki speaks of below is at the very end of this 13 minute reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5C6Xp3pwAVicki Lawrence on an infamous blooper on "The Carol Burnett Show" - EMMYTVLEGENDS This was the shortest little sampler reel I could find of a couple of breaks Really Girrrl, at the end of each clip you're given choices of other clips, related and not related to choose from and this was among them.  Sepiatone |
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Post by kims on Mar 28, 2023 22:40:11 GMT
There are a few scenes of breaking the fourth wall in the 1965 movie "Ship of Fools." From memory, I don't think it was effective in this movie. Instead, it only served to break the narrative flow and spoil the illusion that you were "watching" the lives of the people on the ship. It's still a good movie, but its use of the "fourth wall thing" detracted overall. I recently watched SHIP OF FOOLS. I can't think think of the actor's name who is a dwarf (apologies I don't now the correct term to use) he breaks the fourth wall. At the end he says what does this have to do with you?-Nothing. I've felt like a dunce for years because I don't get the point of his last speech. You're right it's a good film, but the fourth wall bits distract. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 30, 2023 16:28:33 GMT
>Really Girrrl, at the end of each clip you're given choices of other clips, related and not related to choose from and this was among them. For me it isn't one of their best bust-ups so I went with the smallest mixed tapes I could find. Most of the compilations out there are very long and I didn't want to clog up this Movie thread with too much TV material. And so back to movies.... I'm not sure if this one really qualifies as Fourth Wall. There is probably another term for a reverse fourth wall but I am not familiar with it. I do love it though - brilliant and so memorable....Buster Keaton stepping into the movie screen. Sherlock Jr. (1924)  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Mar 31, 2023 1:30:44 GMT
Allan-a-Dale (Roger Miller) in Robin Hood (1973).
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