lol now THAT would be funny - there's a name for that.. .I think
it's "hanging the hat" or something? I forget. But it's where a
line references something outside of the show/movie itself that
the audience will know that let's you know that they know what
you know that they shouldn't know. == I like areas where the
"lean" on the 4th wall where you're like, "Wait.. did they just?
Yeah, I think that was meant for us". But nothing beats Ferris's
breaking of the 4th wall. Did you know prior to their changes,
XBox had a rule about NOT breaking the 4th wall for game
developers. Indie XBox developers had a list of rules to follow
- I have a copy somewhere.. they were SO specific, although it
was just a few. Basically you could introduce no elements that
could make the player feel separate from the character they were
controlling... _especially_ not turning around and facing you.
== I *know* I should watch it. I've gotten SO MANY
RECOMMENDATIONS for it.... it's definitely on my list of "to
see". I've 'kinda' avoided it because, at least in the past,
friends that wanted me to see it REALLY REALLY wanted me to see
it.. and that kinda turned me off a bit. I never finished
watching Dune for that reason either. Friends that were raving -
and I get they wanted me to join them in their love of the movie
- but that's why I avoided it. I think I've seen snippets here
and snippets there but never start-to-finish. There's a bunch of
movies on my list like that. Makes me weird I guess smile
emoticon What I do instead is try to get them to tell me about
the movie. If they refuse and insist that I have to watch it to
understand... then it's on my "don't watch yet" list smile
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