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Post by dianedebuda on Sept 11, 2023 15:13:07 GMT
There's a good Thelma Ritter movie Isn't good and Thelma Ritter movie redundant?
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Post by I Love Melvin on Sept 11, 2023 16:22:48 GMT
This is kind of a complicated moment in Rear Window, because Raymond Burr is technically looking out at Jimmy Stewart (and Thelma Ritter, which made me think of this), even though he's looking directly into the camera, which puts the viewer in a weird kind of no-man's-land in the middle, which I would say still obliterates the fourth wall. The pov is through Stewart's camera lens, so in that case we're Jimmy Stewart, so where is the wall if we're looking right at each other? Anyway, it's so scary.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Sept 15, 2023 2:30:26 GMT
Arrivederci, Baby! (1966) has numerous breaks in the fourth wall. Rosanna Schiaffino starts it off right at the beginning with a wink at us (about 1:07). Tony Curtis has numerous good ones throughout the film as well. I especially like the end when he yells at us, "What are you looking at? Get outta here!" and slams shut the windows.
It's Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Nancy Kwan. What could go wrong?
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Post by BunnyWhit on Nov 17, 2023 21:07:15 GMT
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
As Helene Hanff, Anne Bancroft does a fair amount of breaking the fourth wall in this film. It's quite effective. The most impactful scene though is nearer the end when both Helene and Frank, played by Anthony Hopkins, have an extended conversation. They speak and reply back and forth through the viewers. I love it.
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 17, 2023 21:21:02 GMT
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
As Helene Hanff, Anne Bancroft does a fair amount of breaking the fourth wall in this film. It's quite effective. The most impactful scene though is nearer the end when both Helene and Frank, played by Anthony Hopkins, have an extended conversation. They speak and reply back and forth through the viewers. I love it.
Excellent movie and an excellent book, too.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 1, 2024 21:03:32 GMT
And Then There Were None (1945)
At the beginning of the film, the gentlemen gather in a sitting room and introduce themselves to each other. They do this through a break in the fourth wall, allowing them to introduce themselves to viewers as well. There's some other business later in the film....but no spoilers here. It's nicely done. (The scene begins at 6:00.)
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Jan 2, 2024 9:06:53 GMT
Groucho does it a few times in ANIMAL CRACKERS, such as the “Strange Interlude” section, but my favorite is later in the film. Groucho tells a lame joke then talks directly into the camera: “Well, ALL the jokes can’t be good. You’ve got to expect that once in a while!”
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Post by marysara1 on Jan 4, 2024 9:07:07 GMT
Sometimes the filmmaker uses it for hints. In the latest Dr. Who movie a character Mrs. Flood tells the audience you don't see many Tauris. (She's not supposed to know what one is)
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 17, 2024 3:13:08 GMT
In the closing scene of See How They Run (2022), Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) directly address the audience.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 12, 2024 3:58:17 GMT
The Ruling Class (1972)
The final thing the 13th Earl of Gurney (Harry Andrews) will ever do is to directly address viewers during his "artistic" behavior at the start of the film. He was nutty as a fruitcake. But just wait till you see the 14th Earl.....
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Post by I Love Melvin on Feb 12, 2024 22:46:21 GMT
I just watched Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023) and, without explaining too much (because I can't), it's structured as a play being workshopped, but which becomes fully fleshed out scenes in a stylized landscape, then reverts back to behind-the-scenes. Anyway, Bryan Cranston functions as a narrator who directly addresses the audience, ostensibly the theater audience but really the movie audience as well. Or something like that. Other characters break the fourth wall as well. And Santa brought me the Criterion release of the David Byrne movie True Stories (1986), which features David tooling around a small Texas town in his convertible acting as narrator/tour guide, constantly addressing the camera. Love that movie.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 12, 2024 23:23:42 GMT
In pure Coen Brothers style, Buster Scruggs (Tim Blake Nelson) talks to us quite a bit in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
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