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- noun Alternative spelling of
fourth wall .
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Examples
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From the get-go, the fourth-wall is slightly broken via narrative of our main character Columbus; this takes the audience one step further into the film.
[REVIEW] Zombieland « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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The brilliant Mr. Show was just an updated Python, complete with non-sequitor segues and fourth-wall destruction.
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks Monty Python: Do the shows still hold up? | EW.com 2009
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No mere Faux Four trifle, the film marked the debut of director Bob Rafelson "Five Easy Pieces" and a fourth-wall clobbering screenplay co-written by a then-unknown Jack Nicholson.
Last Year, Last Chance Steve Dollar 2011
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You sort of hope for a fourth-wall moment here, where the stage goes dark except for a spotlight on Milano, who then takes a seat on a wooden stool and performs some sort of feminist monologue about semi-celebrityhood.
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The reason this is fourth-wall locked is because I'm on the same wall (though not the same route!) as Daphne is, over in cvillette's journal.
[Shadow Unit Fourth Wall Locked.] fat bottomed girls, they make the rocking world go 'round. cvillette 2008
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Larson adds enough touches and fourth-wall winks to the audience to keep the book from being a textbook.
And the other... 2010
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Larson adds enough touches and fourth-wall winks to the audience to keep the book from being a textbook.
And the other... 2010
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Unlike Ferris Bueller, a full translation of Deadpool's fourth-wall break wouldn't simply be him addressing the audience, but instead noting to a viewing audience the genre techniques and cliches that are clearly happening around him and making fun of them.
Movie Deadpool To Break Fourth Wall, Talk To The Audience | /Film 2009
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* If you start your new strip by breaking the fourth-wall, Kris will murder you.
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* If you start your new strip by breaking the fourth-wall, Kris will murder you.
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