>> when the script breaks the 4th wall?

[zombie no.one]

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?

[claws]

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.

[LilCerberus]

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.....

[LilCerberus]

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...

[Morpheus, the unwoke.]

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

[LilCerberus]

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.....

[LilCerberus]

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!"

[Trevor]

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

[zombie no.one]

 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?"

[Trevor]

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

[LilCerberus]

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?"

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

[LilCerberus]

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

[zombie no.one]

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

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

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

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

[Gabriel Knight]

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.

[Trevor]

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

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

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