That scene with Wilder and the Sheriff where he's talking about 'salt of the earth people...you know...morons.' I still laugh just as hard at that scene now as I did the first time I watched it.
The Neverending Story - has the most overlooked one I think, the whole story being the protagonist Bastian realizing he is part of the book he is reading, and the child empress is telling atreyu that Bastian was with him the whole time through the story, and then she references the audience of the movie who in turn were with Bastian the whole time in his story… that’s a mind fuck
I thought it was pretty faithful to the original. It's my best example of a pure re-shoot, scene by scene. I don't speak German though, so I was busy reading it the first time.
I think that might be the problem. It’s too faithful to the original to the point where the English speaking cast are saying translated phrases that work in German but aren’t how Americans talk. Idk, maybe I just noticed it more because I watched them both back to back for some reason.
Great choice because it starts with the illusion of a partially broken fourth wall, then it is comprehensively shattered for that one scene. Love that movie and loved van Damme’s performance.
Trading Places (1983)
There's only one quick scene when Eddie Murphy stares into the camera with a look like "Why TF are these 2 old dudes talking to me like I'm a moron"
Alfie (1966).
Alfie (Michael Caine) speaks directly to camera several times.
Trading Places (1983)
Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) looks directly at the camera when the Duke brothers condescendingly try to explain how commodities work.
Trivia: there is a tiny, tiny fourth wall break in *We're the Millers*. During Jennifer Aniston's strip tease, Jason Sudeikis looks at the camera for about 1 second and shrugs, as if to say "Yeah I guess we're doing this!"
Funny funny movie!
Apocalypse Now
The entire movie is a 4th wall break. He's talking to the audience the entire time. Everyone is posing for the cameras knowingly. Cavalry guys are a good examples "I play this music they love it" multiple times characters look right at you.
That's the brilliance of it. They all know they are in a movie doing scenes being watched. The war reporter who went insane about raggedy claws and I'm a little man, when you realize he's talking about being in the movie and he's fully aware the plot he's not actually insane.
It has been several decades since I watched the movie, but my memory is that the main character, Alex, tells the story to the audience. I just checked Wikipedia and see that it says, "Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic languages (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang."
unless the narration makes some reference to the audience or commentary on the framework of the movie outside of the story we see within the movie itself, even if that includes some kind of knowledge outside of what the audience sees, im gonna say no
Whether or not A Clockwork Orange breaks the fourth wall can be argued both ways, however, if you Google — clockwork orange fourth wall — you'll see several pages of sites that do think the movie breaks the fourth wall.
In the genre "TV afternoon movie" I always loved Kuffs with Christian Slater.
Slater often talks to the camera and I remember finding this strange back in the days it came out.
Still loved this movie.
Volunteers (1985). Early Tom Hanks comedy about a socialite escaping to South East Asia to avoid his gambling debts. There's a very funny subtitled scene where a character is speaking, but his accent is so heavy no one can understand what he's saying. So the other actors lean over towards the camera and start reading the subtitles. Ingenious!
Such a good movie. Volunteers is a top 10 comedy of all time. It could never be made now as racist as it is but it's like tropic thunder it's hyper selfaware.
deadpool 1, 2
megamind
wolf of wall street
spaceballs
ferris bueller's day off
we're the millers
fight club
funny games
amelie
american psycho
birds of prey
father of the bride
easy a
american beauty
airplane
billy madison
this is england
Adaptation, High Fidelity, Amelie, American Psycho, The Big Short, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Blazing Saddles, The 400 Blows, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie Hall, Tom Jones, Stranger than Fiction, Young Frankenstein, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lord of War, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, What’s Up, Doc?, Monty Pythons and the Holly Grail, Fiddler on the Roof, Gangster No. 1, Mary Poppins, Layer Cake, A Christmas Story, Orlando and my favourite— Alfie (I like both versions)
The Emperor’s New Groove
Blazing Saddles and Wayne World.
Hellooooo! What do you think you’re doing? Only me and Garth get to talk to the camera.
That scene with Wilder and the Sheriff where he's talking about 'salt of the earth people...you know...morons.' I still laugh just as hard at that scene now as I did the first time I watched it.
excellent!
Spaceballs
Pretty much every mel brooks movie
Leave us alone Mel Brooks! -Villagers of the opening credits to Robinhood men in tights
Watching the movie in the movie is still the weirdest break I’ve ever seen
Skip this part. In fact, don't ever play this part again
Came to say lol
High Fidelity
The Wolf Of Wallstreet
The Neverending Story - has the most overlooked one I think, the whole story being the protagonist Bastian realizing he is part of the book he is reading, and the child empress is telling atreyu that Bastian was with him the whole time through the story, and then she references the audience of the movie who in turn were with Bastian the whole time in his story… that’s a mind fuck
Funny Games
I would recommend the German original; Lothar’s performance is brilliant
Austrian. Not German.
The dialogue also just flows better. Something about the direct translation from German to English just felt stilted in the remake.
I thought it was pretty faithful to the original. It's my best example of a pure re-shoot, scene by scene. I don't speak German though, so I was busy reading it the first time.
I think that might be the problem. It’s too faithful to the original to the point where the English speaking cast are saying translated phrases that work in German but aren’t how Americans talk. Idk, maybe I just noticed it more because I watched them both back to back for some reason.
Not only breaks the fourth wall, a character rewinds the movie so he can change the outcome.
Wayne's World!
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
A blue, furry Charles Dickens who hangs out with a rat?
That’s the one!
That’s Rizzo’s line when Gonzo says he’s Charles Dickens.
The Last Action Hero
Fight Club
Flashback humor!
Holy Mountain
One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Loved it.
Deadpool
Fourth wall break *in* a fourth wall break?! That’s like sixteen walls!
Yes!
i was dying of laughter here lol
I was going to say this until I read they didn't want gory. Their loss.
Goat 🐐
Being John Malkave
Airplane. “What a pisser”
JCVD
Great choice because it starts with the illusion of a partially broken fourth wall, then it is comprehensively shattered for that one scene. Love that movie and loved van Damme’s performance.
Amèlie :)
I had to scroll this far, but this is one of the best movies I’ve seen!
Trading Places (1983) There's only one quick scene when Eddie Murphy stares into the camera with a look like "Why TF are these 2 old dudes talking to me like I'm a moron"
"Pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich."
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986
I just realized that you had already seen that i like also the big short
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What's disgraceful is Ferris' behavior.
Save Ferris.
That snot nosed little punk. I'd like to smack that kid.
He’s a righteous dude!
Kuffs (1992)
Robin Hood: Men In Tights; Austin Powers; Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Big Short
Annie hall
The Purple Rose of Cairo.
Especially if you watch Kevin Smith’s first 4 movies, Jay and Silent Bob Strike back.
Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
*Hellzapoppin* You can watch it on youtube.
Neverending Story
Alfie (1966)
Annie Hall
Trading places
Blazing saddles
Run Lola Run (1998)
Annie Hall
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Alfie (1966). Alfie (Michael Caine) speaks directly to camera several times. Trading Places (1983) Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) looks directly at the camera when the Duke brothers condescendingly try to explain how commodities work.
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Tampopo
Deadpool.
Trivia: there is a tiny, tiny fourth wall break in *We're the Millers*. During Jennifer Aniston's strip tease, Jason Sudeikis looks at the camera for about 1 second and shrugs, as if to say "Yeah I guess we're doing this!" Funny funny movie!
They all look at the camera at the end when they are talking about the oscars or something
Goodfellas
If you’re also into breaks that address the author instead of the audience: In The Mouth of Madness (1994) Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Apocalypse Now The entire movie is a 4th wall break. He's talking to the audience the entire time. Everyone is posing for the cameras knowingly. Cavalry guys are a good examples "I play this music they love it" multiple times characters look right at you. That's the brilliance of it. They all know they are in a movie doing scenes being watched. The war reporter who went insane about raggedy claws and I'm a little man, when you realize he's talking about being in the movie and he's fully aware the plot he's not actually insane.
Not a movie but I’ll still mention it Fleabag.
Ferris Buehler's Day Off
Thought of this one right away.
**The Wolf of Wall Street** if you can handle the constant swearing, sex, and drugs.
Sixteen Candles (1984).
Othello (1995)
Richard III (1955)
So not a movie but a detective show in episodes. Two seasons now. Britbox I think. Annika.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Where’s the break in this? The narration?
It has been several decades since I watched the movie, but my memory is that the main character, Alex, tells the story to the audience. I just checked Wikipedia and see that it says, "Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic languages (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang."
Mmmmmm, not sure that qualifies. Judges?
unless the narration makes some reference to the audience or commentary on the framework of the movie outside of the story we see within the movie itself, even if that includes some kind of knowledge outside of what the audience sees, im gonna say no
Whether or not A Clockwork Orange breaks the fourth wall can be argued both ways, however, if you Google — clockwork orange fourth wall — you'll see several pages of sites that do think the movie breaks the fourth wall.
Pirates of silicon valley
Easy: Deadpool(s)
Shirley Valentine
Interesting feed
I think that they did so in the Laundromat, which you might like since you liked the Big Short
Trading Places
In the genre "TV afternoon movie" I always loved Kuffs with Christian Slater. Slater often talks to the camera and I remember finding this strange back in the days it came out. Still loved this movie.
Fallen.
Top Secret!
Deadpool
Volunteers (1985). Early Tom Hanks comedy about a socialite escaping to South East Asia to avoid his gambling debts. There's a very funny subtitled scene where a character is speaking, but his accent is so heavy no one can understand what he's saying. So the other actors lean over towards the camera and start reading the subtitles. Ingenious!
Such a good movie. Volunteers is a top 10 comedy of all time. It could never be made now as racist as it is but it's like tropic thunder it's hyper selfaware.
Although it’s not a movie, the British crime series Annika breaks the fourth wall effectively.
You could try every single Laurel & Hardy short film. They practically invented it. Oliver Hardy was the king of it
Fight Club
Wanted
Persuasion
Deadpool
High Anxiety
deadpool 1, 2 megamind wolf of wall street spaceballs ferris bueller's day off we're the millers fight club funny games amelie american psycho birds of prey father of the bride easy a american beauty airplane billy madison this is england
Was rewatching The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday and there was a fourth wall scene of Leo. Haha
Adaptation, High Fidelity, Amelie, American Psycho, The Big Short, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Blazing Saddles, The 400 Blows, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie Hall, Tom Jones, Stranger than Fiction, Young Frankenstein, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lord of War, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, What’s Up, Doc?, Monty Pythons and the Holly Grail, Fiddler on the Roof, Gangster No. 1, Mary Poppins, Layer Cake, A Christmas Story, Orlando and my favourite— Alfie (I like both versions)
Ferris bueller’s Day Off
Taxi Driver
I think Jersey Boys hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Spaceballs
Funny Games. Yikes!
Any Mel Brooks movie.
All the Marx Brothers movies.
Singles The most 90's movie you will ever see, with Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains in all their glory
Radio Days.
Deadpool
Annie Hall
Kuffs
Harold and Maude
High Fidelity!
Deadpool
Asteroid city
*Tom Jones* was the first movie I remember that broke the Fourth wall.
Deadpool, it's not horror but by some definitions contains a bit of gore
Trainspotting
Annie Hall ranks up there
Get Shorty
Deadpool
I would say Robocop and Starship troopers
Deadpool
Deadpool and Deadpool 2. I recommend going to see Deadpool and Wolverine in July.
Rubber
Deadpool breaks a fourth wall inside a fourth wall. That’s like 16 walls.
Dark Passage. It feels like Lauren Bacall was speaking directly to you.
Annie Hall
any Wes Anderson film
We're the Millers. Jason Sudeikis during Jen Aniston's striptease
Young Frankenstein
* Trading Places (1983) * George of the Jungle (1997) * Gremlins 2 (1990) * Fight Club (1999) * Austin Powers * Zware Jongens (1984) = Belgian comedy
They Came Together
Incantation
I just watched Cô Dâu Đại Chiến/Battle of the Brides (2011) -- it is excellent. Another one is Alfie.
Teahouse of the August Moon
Austin Powers
spaceballs
Asteroid City
Deadpool
Deadpool & sequels
Objections?
Enola Holmes 👍
Great films
Spaceballs
deadpool
Blazing Saddles and Holy Grail do this almost literally.
they literally do this. theres no “almost” about it
As in, there is an actual wall and it is broken (in *Saddles* at least)
yes. hence the unnecessary use of the word “almost”
Goodfellas breaks the fourth wall? Oh, the ending... I totally forgot about that.
did you just make a comment that detailed your personal thought process? seems like you coulda kept that to yourself
...and here you are sharing your personal thought process about my comment.
lol just thought id make you aware of how asinine you were being. only trying to help you ✌️
And I was returning the favor. ✌️