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just watched TANGO & CASH, not sure how this film has evaded me until now, I've known about it since it came out

anyway there's a couple of Sylvester Stallone's lines that were obvious attempts to kind of break the 4th wall into 'real life'... One where a character references Rocky and he says something like "yeah well Rocky is a p***y", and another bit where a character mentions danish cuisine and he goes "I hate danish" (clearly a reference to his recent at the time marriage/divorce to Brigitte Nielsen)

VERY corny. but not breaking the 4th wall in the traditional sense of actors looking at the screen or directly acknowledging the audience.

any other examples of this in a movie?

The Devil's Chair (2007) - British horror film. During parts of the film there is a voiceover, and at some point the speaker is addressing the audience directly. He says something like "..and you people currently watching The Devil's Chair on DVD."

It was strange and caught me off guard. They take drugs in the film so I guess it made sense but it was still weird.

Arthur Frayn
https://youtu.be/ezT7P970Bw4

There's a scene in Gremlins 2 where the gremlins get into the projection booth & start playing a '50s skin flick, & then Hulk Hogan starts shouting at the camera.....

The Tingler, the Director makes a brief intro, then when the tingler hides in a movie theater, the screen goes black, and Vincent Price shouts, "Scream! Scream for your lives!"....

Mister Sardonicus, the director pretends to engage the audience with his "Thumbs up/Thumbs down" vote cards.....

Yellow Submarine, The Beatles were so impressed, that they decided to tack on an ending where they chat with the audience about the adventure, & then John says there's Blue Meanies in the theater...

There was an episode of 'night gallery' called green fingers that had a main character, after being driven insane, talk to the audience directly.

How I Won the War
There's a couple of scenes where John Lennon's character addresses the camera, the first to narrate why he apathetically obeys what he knows is a bad order, & the end, after his character gets killed.....
There's also a scene when the Nazi officer that Goobody's been confiding in tells one of his men he's "a civilian now", and the relieved Nazi trooper gives a cynical statement to the camera.....

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
King Arthur starts rough housing Dennis the commune member to get him to shut up.... Dennis starts shouting, "Help! I'm being oppressed!" then points at the camera & says, "You! You saw him oppressing me, Didn't you!"

Smokey and The Bandit:

Bandit hides his car from the police and as the car passes by the camera, he looks at the audience and grins 😎🤣🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndt_84WBxUM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndt_84WBxUM)

 I don't mean traditional breaking the 4th wall, where the characters literally address and acknowledge the audience.

I meant subtler, tongue in cheek lines or things in the film that are clearly knowing references to stuff which is beyond the fictional realm of the movie

in TANGO & CASH, Sly doesn't actually look at the camera and say "I played Rocky... geddit?"

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 has a lot of these moments, especially the Lethal Weapon, Dirty Harry and Die Hard references 😁

What about that scene at the end of Sky High (2005) where Lynda Carter says "I'm not Wonder Woman"?

I've read that there were a few of these moments in Seed Of Chucky, but I've never seen it...

not seen it but yeah that kind of parody type film would be prime territory for this kind of thing I'm sure...


yeah that counts. (as long as she's not saying it into the camera whilst winking ironically)

Watched THE UNBEREABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT last night. An entertaining movie, and they make tons of references to Nicholas Cage movies. I only wish the overall script was more interesting, basically I felt offended like Javi when Cage explained the boring kidnapping plot to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCeAPNfnhTE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCeAPNfnhTE)

Still probably not what Zombie's looking for, but:
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The French Mistake scene, even as a little kid was something of a foregone conclusion, but where the sequence ends with Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) hiding out in Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theatre, and he looks up at the screen.....

I'm watching Beyond the Law (1968) while listening to a radio documentary about Hedy Lamarr that's got that nagging me...

What about that episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun, wherein William Shatner & John Lithgow make mutual reference to Nightmare at 20,000 Feet?

In the HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971 ), John Pertwee plays an aging horror film actor and says-

" That's what's wrong with the present day horror films. There's no realism. Not like the old ones, the great ones. Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, Dracula - the one with Bela Lugosi of course, not this new fellow."
He's referring to Christopher Lee, of course- who just so happens to appear in the film as well!

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday, from back in 1940.

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH breaks it in the sense that he's an actor playing himself in real life. The rest may be fictitious, but as far as we know, he's not.

In BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (1952) the Jerry Lewis wannabe says to Lugosi- "Your that guy from the movies who scares little kids!"

Woody Allen breaks the wall several times during 'love abd death'.

George Lazenby in OHMSS: "This never happened to the other fella"  :bouncegiggle:

Porky's 2: The Next Day
     The leg from A Christmas Story is the same one used in the sword fight scene during the school play, and I think the zombie was supposed to be a reference to Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things.....

 Trading Places (1983) -

Randolph Duke: We are 'commodities brokers,' William. Now, what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products... like coffee that you had for breakfast... wheat, which is used to make bread... pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a 'bacon, lettuce and tomato' sandwich.

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