The fourth wall is a phrase used to describe the "wall" between the audience and the actors. Most films do not break this "wall" because it completely changes the mood of a film. However some films do get their main actors to break the "fourth wall" and it can set a completely different mood. Waines world is a classic film that breaks the fourth wall. The Waines world is a comedy, and it starts off with the main character Waine talking to the camera, telling you what they are doing. He introduces his friend Garth. Throughout the film it is only Waine and Garth (best friends) that talk to the camera and break the fourth wall. At one point someone talks to the camera but Waine tells him that only he and Garth are allowed to talk to the camera.
The film also has a subtle irony, in that in Waines world, they are in their own TV show, so the film is about them in their own tv show.
There are many other films that break the fourth wall, each with their own differences, but the breaking of the fourth wall does add just adds a nice difference to all the normal films.
Other films that break the fourth wall include:
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Spaceballs
- The Muppet Movie
- Airplane
- Blazing Saddles
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Garfield
- All the Monty Python films
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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