He drifts in and out of vocal character and his facial expressions need serious work, but damn funny jokes! I thoroughly enjoyed Walken Vader breaking the fourth wall on the Han/Greedo controversy. If he analyzed each syllable and practiced some more, I bet he could be a master of the Walken side of the Force.

k, I'm going Wednesday Addams on yall, so fair warning if you can't stomach the grotesque. It's just my sense of humor is very dark. This is one of the few times I'll do you a favor by breaking the fourth wall of my videosift persona. Mainly because I enjoyed this video and the concept is really neat; but, I can't help my brain from going where it goes in its logical conclusions. It's tldr so you'll skip it anyway. Doesn't matter to me, first and foremost, I post for me, not you -- though I acknowledge it is public and therefore for the public's consumption, it is so purely for reasons of science:

Is there a section at the Empathy Museum for empathizing with EMT drivers? Seeing dead and dying bodies in every conceivable way on a daily basis. How do you try on those shoes?

A friend of mine who was a technician for many years told me he witnessed dozens of different forms of decapitation and loads of ways a person can lose one or more or all of their limbs; or, how about this one -- a man who squatted over a plunger he had suctioned to the bottom of a tub because he was too much of a prude to buy a dildo, slipped in the tub while he was pleasuring himself anally...

It tore up through his bowels and punctured out of his abdomen. He was still alive but out cold from the shock while his bowels flooded his insides; dead not long after his wife had made the call.

Listening to an EMT driver discuss their years of experience is one of the best ways to empathize with the human condition.

Or here's another good one: Go work in a nursing home and learn what being old and dying is like.

But cool, I get to wear oversized women's shoes... wait, I already do that. Here, empathize with me: wear pumps and stockings for an hour, then chuck tailors and socks for two hours, then pumps, then chuck tailors, then pumps, then chuck tailors.

I'm gonna open myself a true empathy museum in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum. Could you imagine if the Holocaust Museum had you wear the shoes of dead Jews? Would anyone take that seriously? I seriously doubt it.

Aside from alternating between gender-based shoes, my empathy museum will also allow you to interact with people who have low functioning autism and have a discussion with a man who has severe brain damage because his dad was involved in organized crime and the price of not paying a debt on time was that his family got murdered before his very eyes. Lucky for him, only brain damage. Sole survivor. Let him regale you with tales of woes made entirely of spitting sounds and aimless staring.

Empathy's a crazy thing. Makes you want to crawl inside a hole sometimes. But if you emerge sane and ready to TRULY empathize by doing a goddamn thing about it -- and not just proclaim your civil rights and be angry at the injustices of the world and how unfair your lot or the lot of other pitiful humans are -- maybe you'll have what it takes to gain an iota of true humanity. That's what my empathy museum is all about.

Not that I'm against this form of chic empathy. I quite enjoy art installations.

Whenever someone is talking up Deadpool to me it's always: "The references..." (to other comic book movies I didn't care for), "the self-deprecation..." (agreeing with me that some of those movies were indeed shit), "breaking the fourth wall... ooh!" (a dramatic device so old it's Elizabethan... at least). And I'm supposed to be impressed by all that? Meta-, or up it's own ass?
Seems like you need to have watched every other comic book movie to enjoy Deadpool. Both to get the in-jokes no one else cares about, and to have a pile of mediocre crap that this movie can shine next to in comparison.
To me it was just another uninteresting superhero movie but this time with swears.

Monkey Island games were always wacky and difficult puzzles simply because it required you to think of objects in such ways as to break the fourth wall of the game itself. Guybrush and his infinite pocket space.

Also note, these are good games despite their frustrating bits. There were far more frustrations prior to the days where you are given dialog choices, when you were required to type in all of the dialog options using key words. Cough, cough, older Tex Murphy games and just about every text adventure from the dawn of home computers.

I loved those games, but many of them turned into puzzles that maybe one person in the family finally figured out after brute force trying thousands of combinations of objects with each other. I did that multiple times in the original Myst. I think there was one passcode that took close to 10,000 attempts. LOL!

Or how about games that had dead ends but didn't alert the player? Cough, cough Maniac Mansion. People could die, but as long as one person was left alive, the game never ended, even though only the bad endings are left. But it's not like modern games, some of the bad endings were themselves puzzles, and some deaths lead to a half good and half bad ending, like winning a lottery and then having a character abandon the plot altogether because he/she is rich and then THE END.

Those were the days. None of this FNAF shit -- which is really what deserves the infamy of terrible, convoluted puzzles...

Before video games became as massively popular as they are today, it wasn't always a requirement to make your game easily solved and you were not always provided with prompts for failure or success until many grueling hours, days, months, sometimes YEARS of random attempts. How many families bought a Rubik's Cube versus how many people solved it without cheating and learning the algorithms from another source?

Go back hundreds or thousands of years and it wasn't common for chess or go or xiangqi (the most popular game in the entire world TODAY) to come with rules at all, so only regions where national ruling boards were created will there be standardized rules; so, the truth, rules, patterns, and solves of games have traditionally been obfuscated and considered lifelong intellectual pursuits; and, it's only a recent, corporatized reimagining of games that has the requirement of providing your functional requirements and/or game rulings so as to maintain the value of its intellectual property. I mean, look at how Risk has evolved since the 1960s -- now there's a card that you can draw called a "Cease Fire" card which ends the game, making games much shorter and not epic at all. Easy to market, but old school players want the long stand offs -- I mean, if you're going to play Risk... TO THE BITTER END!

This is the BEST (doom) metal video ever produced. Fourth wall breaking and sinister! My favorite era of Candlemass.

The lyrics of the song are played out in the music video and go beyond the fourth wall into the sinister rhythm of metal music itself -- head banging and dancing in place are the effects of an entranced metalhead now "Dancing and singing to my fiddle".

Brilliant song. Brilliant video -- especially in October. *horrorshow

All hail the Messiah Marcolin!

*promote

Can't you see the devil in me
Just take a look in my eyes
I will play for you this wicked melody
It's magic will reach for your soul

It burns inside, no place to hide
This strange tune possesses your mind
It comes over you and the nightmare is true
You'll enter the realm of the dark

You are bewitched
You are bewitched

Bewitched, be delight, you'll reach the night
Dancing and singing to my fiddle
So take my hand, and understand
That no one will see you again

You are bewitched
You are bewitched

I am the master of the enchanted tune
I'll play for your joy, for your soul, for you doom
My fingers they dance upon the strings like fire
Weaving a spell of my burning desire

Sing with me, meet your destiny
Set yourself free to the magic
So come with me, my kingdom to see
Believe me you're captured my friend

You are bewitched
You are bewitched
You are bewitched
You are bewitched

I was a 15 year old boy that wore dresses, disliked superhero comics, played in a band, and competed in academics. When I was 30 I started reading superhero comic books (obsessively) but I still wear dresses.

Perhaps one day you will discover your superhero chi. It is never too late.

Deadpool on the other hand is a mostly childish, yet mindbending and fourth wall breaking character that spans the comic book multiverse beyond even Marvel comics, having a direct counterpart in DC that is less wacky, both of which reference each other incognito through narrative.

There's quite a bit of fun science fiction going on simultaneous with the 15 year old boy jargon, based in more than just the silliness of the comics themselves, but the politics of comics writers and artists. Far more interesting than the even more popular Star Wars B.S. happening this Christmas, which I think is a six year old boy demographic.

This was a really fun game. It's hard to see what a lot of them are in the video, and if you haven't played the game a few are confusing out of context.
I dislike the effects that were fourth-wall breaking, but most of the rest were awesomely scary. My favorites were always the beating on the door immediately after you closed it, and the subtler ones like the statue in the hall.

Spoof of House of Cards. Very great TV show staring Kevin Spacey on Netflix. Kevin plays the House Majority Whip, a Representative from Georgia who was supposed to become the Secretary of State when the President won, but got passed over, the show follows him, lots of breaking the fourth wall... amazing show. Worth the price of Netflix alone. That said, yeah, a description should have been put in...

I'm not a film maker but a cinephile, and from what I gather you have two of the exceptions correct. Another is when breaking the fourth wall or if a character is also a narrator (eg Rango).
In reply to this comment by TheFreak:
Sooooo...

I know there are some film makers on the sift. Somebody explain to me the rule on looking at the camera. I got the idea from somewhere that you were supposed to look off to the side of the camera rather than directly at it, in order to not freak the viewer out.

From this video it looks like there are two exceptions?

1. When the camera respresents the frame of reference of a character.
2. When you WANT to freak the viewer out.

Am I pretty close?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will Smith' to 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will Smith, fourth wall' - edited by xxovercastxx

>> ^nach0s:
I would add #11: "The misunderstanding". Over-used in television more than movies, this happens when one character and the audience knows a certain fact, but another character in the scene doesn't, and has a misunderstanding that is often milked for WAY too long as you're sitting there thinking "WHY DOESN'T CHARACTER 'A' TELL CHARACTER 'B' WHAT THE REAL INFO IS, AND CLEAR THIS SHIT UP, DEAR CHRIST."

Actually, one of my favorite lines from Friends was "Oh, I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding." Until they said that, I never realized that EVERY episode of Three's Company had essentially the same plot. One could argue shows like CSI have the same plot, but it isn't the exact same people doing the crimes.

Secret Talk is merely the film version of the dramatic aside, where a character steps to the side of the stage and talks directly to the audience. Usually this is an internal monologue, but there are a few places where two characters should be audible, given the circumstances, but it is assumed that they are not.

Far more egregious, IMO, is unnecessary tension created when a secret talk occurs that the audience isn't in on, especially when there are other secret talks that include the audience.

As for the 360, there's a reason why it's a relatively new innovation--cameras are small enough to allow for rapid movements without a HUUUGE crew in the wings to support each shot. A 360 shot is meant to defy the expectations of the viewer. While it doesn't completely eliminate the Fourth Wall, it suggests a freedom of perception and movement. I'd imagine AVGN would have had a problem with the opening of Citizen Kane, as, in short order, everyone was mounting a camera on a crane and breaking the 2-D plane that had limited films up to that point. Was it overdone? Sure, but like everything else, it got boring and was put away until someone had a really NOVEL use for it, and dusted it off.

And it should also be noted that there's a 'trip' in The Book of Eli that doesn't result in a complete loss of balance.

>> ^glomer8888:


You're not supposed to break the internet fourth wall!!!!

Very interesting how strong the British accent was still so apparent only 70 years ago. I wonder at what point it was completely eradicated. (It is isn't it?)

Also interesting how they broke down the fourth wall: "I'm going to talk right through the screen to you..."

These super ancient videos giving us a glimpse into advertising techniques and, to a lesser degree, life back then fascinate me to no end. Reminds me of shorpy.com (the 100 year old photo blog).

>> ^NicoleBee:
Y'know, as a game, I could not be less interested in Metal Gear Solid.
But its quirkiness and willingness to completely eviscerate the fourth
wall gives it a thumbs up in my book.. I was watching my brother play
it and found the cut scenes and bits of its humor to be highly
entertaining.
As for these EA battlefield games. Ehn. Most of
their attempts to inject some soul into this franchise seem very
artificial... I mean, I played 2142 a little with roomates, but
everything just seemed so generic and lifeless.
And they're
also developing a 'wacky cartoon' version of a wargame for the
franchise as well. Wonder where they could have gotten that bit of
inspiration from..



I agree. EA is all about re-hashing and spitting out games with no regard to quality, replayability, and support. They have produced quite a few games that could've been GREAT, but fell terribly short by buggy games filled with exploits and laughable mistakes.

The metal gear series isnt the bestest thing ever produced either, but it is well produced, extremely thought-out, and very entertaining. Hideo Kojima's work has been and will be copied for years to come.