someonecompletelyrandom

Essentially, yes. But the forth wall is only broken if the character actually speaks to the audience, or if he breaks character or mentions that what the audience is seeing is staged. If he's simply thinking out loud or something, suspension of disbelief isn't comprised and the wall isn't broken.

It's just a funny phrase too, sounds so epic. XD

Thom Yorke

Yeah there's more than one way to do it. You can do it by speaking directly to the audience or, like Conan said, break character or mention that something is staged.

A couple paraphrased examples (that I couldn't find on youtube):

Boston Legal - A character makes a passing remark to another character: "Hey, where have you been? I haven't seen you at all this episode."

Flight of the Conchords - Murray: "Why are you always doing that, Jemaine? You're always making these smart alec comments."
Jemaine: "I think that if someone were to watch this they would appreciate my dry sense of humour and find it funny."

EvilChuck

I used to love in the Roadrunner cartoons when Wile E. Coyote would look straight at the viewer, usually while falling from a great height after another plan has failed...



At about 15 seconds in, creases me up every time.

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djchameleon

Ah okay, thanks for the explanation and clearing up the differences.

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Inuzuka Skysword

It isn't really comedic, but I enjoyed the final scene of Alejandro Jadorowsky's Holy Mountain, in which he breaks the fourth wall. It works pretty well with the theme, and the fact that the ending completely jumps out of nowhere.

Sparky

Not related to movie

but there was a issue of the flash comics where he ends up in our world and has to talk to the writers of his comic about how to get back home. It was trippy as ****.

Bulldog

I love this scene:



Very Alfie-esque, ergo cool.

Just a shame the rest of the movie goes sharply downhill afterwards...

Thom Yorke

Worst example:

Burning Down

Wow. He's just saying random shit. Plus the jacket and boots are horrible.

djchameleon

lol I agree!

I loved his attitude towards teaching kids chess and then it just seems like the rest of the movie doesn't relate too much to the intro scene.

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