Honourable mention to Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Dingo breaking the fourth wall to discuss the merits of her scene, the narrator getting sidetracked talking about swallows when introducing Scene 24, the fake 'intermission' in the middle of Arthur and Bedivere crossing the Bridge of Death and the final battle scene stopped by the police turning up and knocking the camera. Even the opening credits stop multiple times when the subtitles - and later credits themselves - are overrun by references to the Swedish moose. The Meaning Of Life also grinds to a halt in the middle of the film to point out that it's The Middle Of The Film - complete with a game of Find The Fish.
@@BossReo @Mark Reynolds "Oh anyway - on to scene 24 which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting in which there aren't any swallows although I think you can hear a starli- *_whurgh!_*
-what's this ?? -it's called instant streaming sir, the movie is predicted by AI, rendered and streamed before the movie is finished !!! just imagine the writer/director changing his mind throwing the AI off and they end up following a deleted scene
What about Fight Club? The narrator literally stops the movie dozens of times... including THAT scene when Tyler Durden literally does to the movie what he told he does on his dayjob as a cinema operator?: Including a (ahum) male organ in one of the frames?
I used to work as a projectionist in collage and I was accused of doing just that once or twice. When in reality t only thing going on was that t print I was running was overly used, crappie, and having lots of t sprocket holes wallowed out and frayed.
To think that "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" actually has two different cutaways depending on whether one is watching VHS video tapes (John Wayne) or DVD video discs (Hulk Hogan) is truly unique.
Thxs for clearing that up, because I truly didn't remember that scene with Hulk Hogan because I never owned a DVD player, pathetic I know, I still don't BTW. The John Wayne reference is barely, vaguely familiar, it sad that old brains just don't work like they used to.
What about the Simpson's movie, where Home is left floating on a hear shaped ice flow that breaks and the screen goes dark and says "To Be Continued..." and then it says "Now" and the movie starts up again.
It had loads of fourth wall breaks but I wouldn't say any of them made the movie stop - they were more like the parts in Ferris Bueller or High Fidelity where the character explains things to the audience. The movie isn't actually paused like in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Tank Girl! At the theater when she was knocked out, it was about 5 minutes of black. People were hollering "reel change" before the comic balloon came up that said "this is me knocked out".
In 'the big short' they stop it several times to explain several things about stocks and housing market in very simple language for everyone to understand, some of the best stops in movie I've seen
The Big Short is a great movie, however it is also a documentary of sorts. It looked as though govt & Wall Street were just incompetent until the end when we learn the incompetency is intentional to fleece the tax payers. The same game is going on now, but few can let go of their cognitive dissonance to see.
The Gremlins 2 sequence was actually taken even further in the novelisation of the movie (remember them?) Yeah, long before Tarantino’s recent literary take on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood bookshelves were frequently packed with novelisations of the latest blockbusters. Not only did they offer a fascinating look at the films and, because the authors wrote them based on original shooting scripts, frequently feature sequences that were absent from the final cut but, in the case of Gremlins 2, added a third ‘novel’ take on the intermission sequence that saw the Gremlins take the author hostage in his bathroom whereby Brains, the ‘civilised’ Gremlin from the film, took control of the next passage until the author successfully broke free and once again took over for the following chapter.
I remember in the novelization of "The Last Starfighter", there is a scene that would have added maybe 20 seconds to the film but would have made it much more enjoyable. In the movie, Centauri shows up in a fancy sports car, tells Alex that he (Centauri) is the game's designer and invites Alex to get in the car, which Alex does with no further objection. It's like Centauri said, "Get in the car, kid. I have candy!" and Alex just gets in. In the novelization, after Centauri invites Alex into the car, Alex asks him about the screen layout in one of the higher levels of the game, and Centauri immediately gives the correct answer -- something only the game designer could have done. Only after checking this guy's story does Alex get in, showing that he's not just some dumb hick from a trailer park. Having those two lines in the final cut would have made me much more sympathetic to Alex's character.
Almost every single Mel Brooks film also did this; The Emperor's New Groove, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Tank Girl has an insane comic-book animated sequence that does nothing except reference the source material a little and show them riding their respective vehicles.
"Tank Girl"! An underappreciated fun film that was way better than it had to be. As stated, some of the source material put into the movie and it works just great!
"Gremlins II" breaking the fourth wall with projection-room chaos and threats from pro wrestler Hulk Hogan was amazing -- my favorite part of the film.
The scene is Ghost in the Shell is one of the best things in any movie ever... That music, those images... It's far from an intermission, it's one of the most important parts of the film, and also where she sees someone who looks identical to herself and begins to question her nature. Wonderful film.
I'm sure someone has already written this but that "nearly 3-minute intermission that does nothing" in GTS is actually REALLY important to the Major's character. It's supposed to be a reflection, no pun intended, on her identity within her world. There are some actually great essays/video essays about this film's ideas and feature that section as a crucial aspect of the movie.
I actually got upset that this video got that so wrong… almost everything shown in that 3 minutes had importance and weight. Even the basset hound had a level of importance beyond it being the director’s “trademark”.
When I watched Mars Attacks in cinema, about halfway through the movie stopped, and everything went dark, just as the aliens were wreaking havoc all over the planet. For a minute, everyone thought this break was hillariously part of the movie. But when nothing continued to happen, someone noticed that the lights had gone out all over the city. Definately added to the experience of Mars Atacks! Best movie break ever.
The Gremlins breaking the movie was (probably still is) one of my fonded childhood movie expeirences. The sheer insanity of it all and having Grandpa Munster just fills me with after-midnight joy ♥
Return of the Killer Tomatoes (don’t bother with Attack of the KTs) was another example of the stars (including a young George Clooney) stopping the film as it’s run out of money, so there are numerous moments of product placement to raise cash.
Usage of words changes over time. Literally can mean both literally and figuratively. The secondary usage has become common enough to make it into the dictionary (the purpose of which, I will remind you, is not to define words, but to describe their usage).
@@thembill8246 ah, yes... the informal meaning... it just makes me feel like some people 'literally' gave up correcting those that used it the wrong way... haha.
Very shocked to not see Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, or Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Also could have thrown in the either The Muppet Movie or Muppet Christmas Carol
"For now we look through a glass, darkly" That scene from GitS had meaning, for me at least. It's beautiful visually, but it's also potentially sad if you view it through the Majors eyes. I always took it as a visual metaphor for how she was feeling after the conversation with Batou. We get an overview of humanity and the scene ends on a mannequin... That's no coincidence.
There's also a lingering shot of another prosthetic body that looks exactly like the major, further fueling her doubts about her own identity/individuality. This whole sequence is fantastic, and I think integral to the film in the way it puts you in her headspace
Yeah I thought the importance of that scene, aside from being a tone poem, was how it illustrated that the Major was not unique, at least her body was not, as she saw other versions of herself.
My first interaction with this technique was in Emperor's new Groove...you should really do an "another 10 moments that stoped movies " as I've seen more title here in the comments
The GiTS scene is not an intermission at all… it’s Kusanagi experiencing the vastness and meaning of society and pondering her place in it. What it means to be human, etc.
THANK YOU!! Was looking for someone else to see that. Major's whole sense of disconnect from the physical world around her is amplified in this sequence. She's already waist deep in an existential crisis of the self, imagine now seeing your shell as a diner in restaurant windows you've never eaten in and being used as fashion mannequins that stare back at you. This sequence is most definitely character development.
You need to do "10 more" and "another 10 more" because there are so many good ones! How about all the On the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
They did that in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, too. And also had a cameraman’s donut get stabbed during the climactic sword fight. Both Mel Brooks films, along with the aforementioned in the comments, deserve a mention.
If you can, find the earlier adaption "And then there were none" that's the best adaptation they've made so far. Worst would he the ten little Indians with Frank Stallone.
@@JRSofty I prefer the movie. Christie has a pretty bad track record with endings, as she usually Iiked to have a whole bunch or clues towards one person and switch murderers at the end so no one could figure it out. I don't really like that. In this case she realized the ending of the book wasn't a great idea and changed it for the stage play, which became the basis for the book.
Not one mention of a Mel Brooks film? Blazing Saddles’s fight scene breaking into other sets? Space Balls characters looking at the footage to catch up? Men in Tights breaking out the script to give Robin a second shot? None of these were worthy? Also the Wayne’s World ending?
"Man on the Moon" had a good one where Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman started rolling the credits super early in the movie. I got in trouble for adding lighting cues when it was in theaters.
That’s awesome. I’d have totally appreciated it, but I can guess a lot of folks would right it off as “ duh some dumb kid fell for it and turned the lights on”.
The Ghost in the Shell "intermission" scene is not a throw away scene. This moment, of Major Kusanagi traversing the city, does several things. 1) It gives the viewer a look into the surrounding world, one that isn't high-tech and still filled with "people" - reminding the viewer, for the most part - the world is still as we know it. 2) It shows the popularity of Major Kusanagi's cyborg model - helping further the narrative of questioning what it means to be an individual 3) It shows the Motoko Kusanagi as someone other than the Major, if only for a few minutes. She is not a machine that does a job for the government - especially after the dive scene and the doubts/curiosity that raised in Kusanagi.
While watching a film at a local drive-in, the film committed suicide. The people went crazy. One man took an ax from the bed of his pickup a hurled it at the screen. Another one began using his truck's wench to pull the speakers up. All I could say was that the movie was getting better. I told my young children, "This is what happens when movie critics don't like a movie."
Personally… Space Balls, where the villain goes to a shelf for a copy of the VHS tape of the film to find out what happens next. You watch them fast forward through previous scenes, until they get to the part of the movie they are at. Where they are watching themselves watching the video. It’s accompanied by brilliant dialogue of “when did that happen?” Rolling back and forth until one character says “When will then be now?” Only to be told “soon” It is a brilliant moment that my description doesn’t do justice to, so go check it out.
The fake trailers and missing reels is one of the best things about Grindhouse. If you never got to see this in a theater tho WHAT A SHAME. it’s one of my all time favorite movie experiences. MACHETEs trailer is so fucking great and infinitely quotable.
1970 had quite a bunch of film stops. Especially in comedies. Mel Brooks was mentioned several times but Marty Feldman also did it in his "The Last Remake of Beau Geste" by interrupting a fight scene with the used camel's sale commercial.
The scene from Ghost and the Shell also shows many different shells identical to Major Kosignogi [obviously SIC] to drive home the fact that she no longer feels individualistic.
This was a terrific list! Well-researched and wonderful variety in its content! I really appreciate all you guys at What Culture not just doing top ten lists with all modern films. Thank you. And have an amazing day, Jules! You are awesome!
In the 1965 Beatles movie "Help!" In the middle of the movie, a screen with the world intermition comes up....then we are treated to a bizarre sequence of the beatles walking in a park and doing.... something....then there is an end of intermition screen....then the movie continues
Im suprised The Beast Must Die isnt on here theres a literally break so the audience can discuss who they think is the werewolf and why Also the sequence from ghost in the shell deepens what the city looks like how people live and so on and I think the world of ghost in the shell is just as important as the characters
Wayne's World's famous scooby-doo ending should be here, and Birds of Prey has quite a lot of the 'I forgot to mention' scenes, some of which work. One of the great failures of the old version of Pete's Dragon is how they put Helen Reddy's song "Candle on the Water' right in the middle, completely stopping the film to no narrative purpose. I saw a TV version of the movie which improved it greatly by making that song play over the opening credits, rather than the standard Disney overture.
BULLSHIT!!! That scene in Ghost in the Shell is absolutely essential to the core story. It’s central to Kusonagi’s character development. She sees someone with her exact same body, and it juxtapositions with her love of diving. And by the way, of you hadn’t figured it out she love diving because she can drown out the distractions and be left alone with her conscience, which she is obsessed with the nature of.
While unaware of Fatty Arbuckle's fourth wall break, in Buster Keaton's film _One Week_ (possibly his best short film), his wife is shown taking a bath, and she drops the soap outside the bathtub. As she begins to lean forward to retrieve it, she looks up and notices we the audience. From nowhere a hand comes into the frame, covering the lens for a few moments, and as it pulls back and away, the smiling wife is safely back in the tub to scrubbing herself with the soap, also clearly relieved she did not have to expose herself. Also, my favourite Missing Reel in _Grindhouse_ was jarringly cutting from a "love scene" to the zombies outside converging on the building; the sudden juxtaposition literally had me laughing out loud in the theater...
It was, but it wasn’t shown in every territory. I think only some theatres in America got it and Canada definitely did. The rest were shown everywhere.
The very first time I experienced this was in the movie, was in the 1968 comedy "Yours, Mine, and Ours", still one of the best comedies in my opinion. Just after the friend has arranged a meeting between Lucille Ball's character and Henry Fonda's character, the film stops while he addresses the audience justifying his "little white lie."
I absolutely love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. That was hilarious. And I actually sat through Grindhouse in the theater. Even loved the mock movie trailers. I also loved the break in Gremlins 2, which still makes my husband and I laugh.
I actually remember seeing Gremlins 2 in the theatre and when that part happened, everyone looked back and up to the projectionist to see what was going on and the Hulk Hogan part played and there was loads of laughter and cheering! Was a lot of fun
I remember renting gremlins 2. And when they screwed up the tape my dad had a moment of sheer panic thinking the tape (and our VCR) was now ruined. Just as he get to the VCR to adjust the tracking or eject the tape the gremlins appeared making shadow puppets and laughing. My Dad started to laugh and said he had a slight feeling it was going to be part of the movie but still had a major fear moment.
Personal favourite is Black Dynamite when one of the characters hits a stuntman too hard, the stuntman breaks and begins to say 'motherfu_' then theres a hard cut where an entirely new stuntman taking the punch with no problem
One of my favorites is The Big Short, a movie which is based on a true story. There a couple of Fourth Wall Breaks in the film but one of my favorites occurs in a major bank lobby and the characters turn to the camera and tell the viewers the scene didn’t actually play out exactly like this but it works better for the purposes of the movie.
For the second film of your selection, «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», if you accept the song «Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head» you can easily accept the sepia montage! :-) More seriously I had no problem with the montage scene when I saw it. According to IMDB web site there is an explanation: This movie was filmed roughly the same time as Hello, Dolly! (1969), on the soundstage next door. Director George Roy Hill believed that the studio would allow him to film the New York City scenes on "Dolly's" sets, since the two films' daily shooting schedules were totally different. After production started, though, the studio informed him that it wanted to keep the sets for "Dolly" a secret, and so refused him permission. To work around this, Hill had Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Katharine Ross simply pose on the sets and took photos of them. He then inserted images of the three stars into a series of three hundred actual period photos and spliced the two different sets (real and posed) together to form the New York City montage.
The montage of Ghost in a Shell includes numerous scenes of juxtaposing humans with manikins in mirrored windows and pools of water. So...you guys missed EVERY major theme of the film if you called it 'pointless'
I love Hulk Hogan's fourth wall breaking apology for his behaviour to other viewers of 'Gremlins 2'. It's the icing on the cake for this funny intermission.
You missed space balls, the scene where they watch their own movie to find out what’s gonna happen next lol
how does a comment get highlited? what does that even mean?
Fully expected to see this too. Spaceballs was full of 4th wall breaks, but the fast forward scene was classic!
That was the best
and in that case Men In Tights, when they pulled out the script coz they couldn't figure out how Robin would've lost an archery contest.
@@LeDameMarciana oooh yeah
Honourable mention to Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Dingo breaking the fourth wall to discuss the merits of her scene, the narrator getting sidetracked talking about swallows when introducing Scene 24, the fake 'intermission' in the middle of Arthur and Bedivere crossing the Bridge of Death and the final battle scene stopped by the police turning up and knocking the camera. Even the opening credits stop multiple times when the subtitles - and later credits themselves - are overrun by references to the Swedish moose.
The Meaning Of Life also grinds to a halt in the middle of the film to point out that it's The Middle Of The Film - complete with a game of Find The Fish.
A fish, a fish, a fish, a fishy, oooooh
Get on with it!
Get on with it!
@@BossReo @Mark Reynolds "Oh anyway - on to scene 24 which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting in which there aren't any swallows although I think you can hear a starli- *_whurgh!_*
Why is the tiger in Africa?
No Emperor's New Groove? When the story focuses too much on Pacha and Kuzco literally stops the film and draws all over it with a red marker
Love that part! 🤣🤣
Literally.
That doesn't apply quite as much since the first part of the movie is his story anyway
How could you not mention spaceballs or blazing saddles
NOW. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now
-what's this ??
-it's called instant streaming sir, the movie is predicted by AI, rendered and streamed before the movie is finished !!!
just imagine the writer/director changing his mind throwing the AI off and they end up following a deleted scene
I came here just to say spaceballs but you beat me to it
The exact two missing movies I was here to point out
Yes, they should also mention Robin Hood Men in Tights... "it worked in Blazing Saddles!" 🤣
What about Fight Club? The narrator literally stops the movie dozens of times... including THAT scene when Tyler Durden literally does to the movie what he told he does on his dayjob as a cinema operator?:
Including a (ahum) male organ in one of the frames?
I used to work as a projectionist in collage and I was accused of doing just that once or twice. When in reality t only thing going on was that t print I was running was overly used, crappie, and having lots of t sprocket holes wallowed out and frayed.
It's a, it's a...rocket ship!
To think that "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" actually has two different cutaways depending on whether one is watching VHS video tapes (John Wayne) or DVD video discs (Hulk Hogan) is truly unique.
Now they need new ones for DVD/Blu-ray, and Streaming :D
Thxs for clearing that up, because I truly didn't remember that scene with Hulk Hogan because I never owned a DVD player, pathetic I know, I still don't BTW. The John Wayne reference is barely, vaguely familiar, it sad that old brains just don't work like they used to.
My copy of the VHS has hogan....didn't know anything about Wayne at all.
Cinema/home releases hulk hogan's was set in a cinema/theatre
I didn’t know about the John Wayne cut a way, just saw Hulk Hogan. In the Movie Theater and on VHS. Also the Tv Version too.🧐
What about the Simpson's movie, where Home is left floating on a hear shaped ice flow that breaks and the screen goes dark and says "To Be Continued..." and then it says "Now" and the movie starts up again.
I actually said out loud 'What?!' in the cinema when that happened and made two people laugh 🤣
Surprised Wayne's world wasn't on this list lol
It had loads of fourth wall breaks but I wouldn't say any of them made the movie stop - they were more like the parts in Ferris Bueller or High Fidelity where the character explains things to the audience. The movie isn't actually paused like in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
@@iainjames03 good point
They stopped the movie at the end to choose a preferred ending lol bad ending good ending and of course, Scooby-Doo ending lol
@@MrPainAndSorrow Damn. You're right. I was wrong to disagree lol
Probably too predictable
You forgot Clue. "It could have happened that way, but how about this?" and "here's what actually happened."
They may have chosen to leave it out, because originally in the theatre you only saw 1 of those endings, not all of them.
-Shawn
Tank Girl! At the theater when she was knocked out, it was about 5 minutes of black. People were hollering "reel change" before the comic balloon came up that said "this is me knocked out".
Reading this, it sounds funny as hell.
@@philipwhitcomb5358 it was. One of those "you had to be there" moments.
In 'the big short' they stop it several times to explain several things about stocks and housing market in very simple language for everyone to understand, some of the best stops in movie I've seen
The Big Short is a great movie, however it is also a documentary of sorts. It looked as though govt & Wall Street were just incompetent until the end when we learn the incompetency is intentional to fleece the tax payers. The same game is going on now, but few can let go of their cognitive dissonance to see.
@@retrocausality6159 I think you're right.
I think that in one Asterix move there was intermission not to show "violent fight"
yeah ill be honest theres no way i would've understood that film without that
So where was the cheerleader ?
The Gremlins 2 sequence was actually taken even further in the novelisation of the movie (remember them?) Yeah, long before Tarantino’s recent literary take on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood bookshelves were frequently packed with novelisations of the latest blockbusters. Not only did they offer a fascinating look at the films and, because the authors wrote them based on original shooting scripts, frequently feature sequences that were absent from the final cut but, in the case of Gremlins 2, added a third ‘novel’ take on the intermission sequence that saw the Gremlins take the author hostage in his bathroom whereby Brains, the ‘civilised’ Gremlin from the film, took control of the next passage until the author successfully broke free and once again took over for the following chapter.
I remember in the novelization of "The Last Starfighter", there is a scene that would have added maybe 20 seconds to the film but would have made it much more enjoyable. In the movie, Centauri shows up in a fancy sports car, tells Alex that he (Centauri) is the game's designer and invites Alex to get in the car, which Alex does with no further objection. It's like Centauri said, "Get in the car, kid. I have candy!" and Alex just gets in. In the novelization, after Centauri invites Alex into the car, Alex asks him about the screen layout in one of the higher levels of the game, and Centauri immediately gives the correct answer -- something only the game designer could have done. Only after checking this guy's story does Alex get in, showing that he's not just some dumb hick from a trailer park. Having those two lines in the final cut would have made me much more sympathetic to Alex's character.
Almost every single Mel Brooks film also did this; The Emperor's New Groove, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Tank Girl has an insane comic-book animated sequence that does nothing except reference the source material a little and show them riding their respective vehicles.
Don’t forget to showcase the song it wasn’t allowed to be on the soundtrack 🤓
That’s interesting.
Men in tights: "wait a minute I'm not supposed to lose, let me check the script!"
"Tank Girl"! An underappreciated fun film that was way better than it had to be. As stated, some of the source material put into the movie and it works just great!
"Gremlins II" breaking the fourth wall with projection-room chaos and threats from pro wrestler Hulk Hogan was amazing -- my favorite part of the film.
That sequence in Ghost in the Shell is super important for understanding the character and themes of the whole movie what do you mean?...
Shut up you fucking weeb
yep i agree with you... people dont understand anime anymore... this channel has become lazy over time...
@@punishersnake4888 piss off
@@adambill8706 Undersranding and appreciating a great film does not make you a "fucking weeb".
Exactly.
The scene is Ghost in the Shell is one of the best things in any movie ever... That music, those images... It's far from an intermission, it's one of the most important parts of the film, and also where she sees someone who looks identical to herself and begins to question her nature. Wonderful film.
We used to say “cool beans” in elementary school in the 80’s
We said that when I was growing up in the early 90's lol.
Can confirm.
I heard it from creed bratton
Yup
90s
No Ferris Buellers day off?
Emperor's new groove?
Deadpool?
Its not escapism when every modern movie is full of politics pointed straight at the audience.
How did you forget Blazing Saddles stopping the film by bursting through it? 🐎
Oh, and you can't forget the genius that is "Run, Lola, Run", can you?
@@consolewench6639 - You have excellent taste!
yes
I'm sure someone has already written this but that "nearly 3-minute intermission that does nothing" in GTS is actually REALLY important to the Major's character. It's supposed to be a reflection, no pun intended, on her identity within her world. There are some actually great essays/video essays about this film's ideas and feature that section as a crucial aspect of the movie.
Here here.
She even sees another person with the same body as hers, causing her to wonder about her existence as an individual.
I actually got upset that this video got that so wrong… almost everything shown in that 3 minutes had importance and weight. Even the basset hound had a level of importance beyond it being the director’s “trademark”.
When I watched Mars Attacks in cinema, about halfway through the movie stopped, and everything went dark, just as the aliens were wreaking havoc all over the planet. For a minute, everyone thought this break was hillariously part of the movie. But when nothing continued to happen, someone noticed that the lights had gone out all over the city. Definately added to the experience of Mars Atacks! Best movie break ever.
I had same thing with one of the Star Wars movies. We thought it was part of movie since the sound kept going.
The Gremlins breaking the movie was (probably still is) one of my fonded childhood movie expeirences. The sheer insanity of it all and having Grandpa Munster just fills me with after-midnight joy ♥
I vote for all the Muppet movies, they broke the 4th wall in every movie.
Definitely!! I really love all the muppet movies, too! (Especially the original, 1976 film. Classic)
"Upstage, lads! This is my only number..." My favourite, most-quoted line from all of them, LOL!
In the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine", they demonstrate how long a minute is, by running animated numbers 1 through 60 each second for the full minute.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes (don’t bother with Attack of the KTs) was another example of the stars (including a young George Clooney) stopping the film as it’s run out of money, so there are numerous moments of product placement to raise cash.
I am concerned with your use of the word 'literally' here.
Usage of words changes over time. Literally can mean both literally and figuratively. The secondary usage has become common enough to make it into the dictionary (the purpose of which, I will remind you, is not to define words, but to describe their usage).
@@thembill8246 ah, yes... the informal meaning... it just makes me feel like some people 'literally' gave up correcting those that used it the wrong way... haha.
Also Hobo With a Shotgun was eventually turned into a full length film
What about Kung Pow: Enter the Fist where they have an intermission half way through the film?
Whaaat no Spaceballs 4th wall movie in the movie scene?!? The most clever “we’re in a movie” bit of all time??? Pshaw! 😉
Very shocked to not see Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, or Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Also could have thrown in the either The Muppet Movie or Muppet Christmas Carol
Mel Brooks only makes terrible movies. They don't deserve to be on this list.
"For now we look through a glass, darkly"
That scene from GitS had meaning, for me at least. It's beautiful visually, but it's also potentially sad if you view it through the Majors eyes. I always took it as a visual metaphor for how she was feeling after the conversation with Batou. We get an overview of humanity and the scene ends on a mannequin... That's no coincidence.
Interesting. That quote is also part of a scripture in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:12
There's also a lingering shot of another prosthetic body that looks exactly like the major, further fueling her doubts about her own identity/individuality. This whole sequence is fantastic, and I think integral to the film in the way it puts you in her headspace
Yeah I thought the importance of that scene, aside from being a tone poem, was how it illustrated that the Major was not unique, at least her body was not, as she saw other versions of herself.
yeah, there was much more meaning to that whole scene.... this guy has completely missed the point if he thinks it was basically "filler" ... smh
@@BoogieManSince1977 Or, it's a provocative statement to foster comments about it.
My first interaction with this technique was in Emperor's new Groove...you should really do an "another 10 moments that stoped movies " as I've seen more title here in the comments
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s monologue in JCVD, breaking the fourth wall was epic.
I think a whodunnit break is entirely appropriate for an Agatha Christie movie
The 1974 movie "The Beast Must Die", which is an adaptation of "10 Little Indians" only with a werewolf, does the same thing.
Fight Club, where both characters talk to the audience as the film melts.
that bit from Ghost in the Shell is some real shit... more evocative than a great many live-action movies I've seen.
Holy Grail and Blazing Saddles, of course. But don't forget The Tingler!
The GiTS scene is not an intermission at all… it’s Kusanagi experiencing the vastness and meaning of society and pondering her place in it. What it means to be human, etc.
THANK YOU!! Was looking for someone else to see that. Major's whole sense of disconnect from the physical world around her is amplified in this sequence. She's already waist deep in an existential crisis of the self, imagine now seeing your shell as a diner in restaurant windows you've never eaten in and being used as fashion mannequins that stare back at you. This sequence is most definitely character development.
Not to mention there are glimpses of others of her "Body" ... which plays back to here wondering if she is real or not.
Spaceballs...how did you leave that one out?
Probably because Mel Brooks makes terrible movies that aren't worth watching.
@@abebuckingham8198 you have no taste! ;-)
Where is Monty Python's: Quest for the Holy Grail?
"And now for something completely different"
Life of Brian, too. The list is utterly fake.
You need to do "10 more" and "another 10 more" because there are so many good ones! How about all the On the Road movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
The moment when the cameraman during a zoom-in breaks a glass window on the set in "High Anxiety".
They did that in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, too. And also had a cameraman’s donut get stabbed during the climactic sword fight. Both Mel Brooks films, along with the aforementioned in the comments, deserve a mention.
that sounds more like 4th wall breaks and not a moment that stopped the movie
@@Erlisch1337 youtube: High Anxiety- Window Scene
it certainly stopped the conversation at the table :P
Technically, it's a dolly, not a zoom. The camera doesn't move when zooming, and therefore wouldn't break the glass.
Where can I find the 10 little Indians movie? Never heard of this movie and I love Clue.
If you can, find the earlier adaption "And then there were none" that's the best adaptation they've made so far.
Worst would he the ten little Indians with Frank Stallone.
You could also read the book! Great story actually
I also recommend the 2015 BBC miniseries adaptation (filmed as And Then There Were None)
@@JRSofty I prefer the movie. Christie has a pretty bad track record with endings, as she usually Iiked to have a whole bunch or clues towards one person and switch murderers at the end so no one could figure it out. I don't really like that.
In this case she realized the ending of the book wasn't a great idea and changed it for the stage play, which became the basis for the book.
im pretty sure there is a version of this with Oliver Reed, i could be mistaken though as i was young when i watched it but was a great movie.
Not one mention of a Mel Brooks film? Blazing Saddles’s fight scene breaking into other sets? Space Balls characters looking at the footage to catch up? Men in Tights breaking out the script to give Robin a second shot? None of these were worthy? Also the Wayne’s World ending?
A lot of those didn’t so much stop the movie in its tracks, just break the 4th wall. Wayne’s World doing multiple endings though I think should count.
"Man on the Moon" had a good one where Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman started rolling the credits super early in the movie. I got in trouble for adding lighting cues when it was in theaters.
That’s awesome. I’d have totally appreciated it, but I can guess a lot of folks would right it off as “ duh some dumb kid fell for it and turned the lights on”.
"Vice" the movie about Cheney did it too.
Porky's every time I get to the shower scene somehow the movie pauses and rewinds and pauses and rewinds .......
I missed "The Big Lebowski" and "Boondock Saints 2" on this list :)
Life of Brian, also Monty Python, stops mid movie to give a proper lecture on how to say 'Romans go home'.
The Ghost in the Shell "intermission" scene is not a throw away scene. This moment, of Major Kusanagi traversing the city, does several things.
1) It gives the viewer a look into the surrounding world, one that isn't high-tech and still filled with "people" - reminding the viewer, for the most part - the world is still as we know it.
2) It shows the popularity of Major Kusanagi's cyborg model - helping further the narrative of questioning what it means to be an individual
3) It shows the Motoko Kusanagi as someone other than the Major, if only for a few minutes. She is not a machine that does a job for the government - especially after the dive scene and the doubts/curiosity that raised in Kusanagi.
While watching a film at a local drive-in, the film committed suicide. The people went crazy. One man took an ax from the bed of his pickup a hurled it at the screen. Another one began using his truck's wench to pull the speakers up. All I could say was that the movie was getting better. I told my young children, "This is what happens when movie critics don't like a movie."
agreed...why is Spaceballs "when does this happen in the movie" scene not on this list?
Personally… Space Balls, where the villain goes to a shelf for a copy of the VHS tape of the film to find out what happens next.
You watch them fast forward through previous scenes, until they get to the part of the movie they are at. Where they are watching themselves watching the video. It’s accompanied by brilliant dialogue of “when did that happen?” Rolling back and forth until one character says “When will then be now?” Only to be told “soon”
It is a brilliant moment that my description doesn’t do justice to, so go check it out.
@10:00 You don't PAN down, you TILT down.
U forgot that end chase scene in Blazing Saddles
The fake trailers and missing reels is one of the best things about Grindhouse. If you never got to see this in a theater tho WHAT A SHAME. it’s one of my all time favorite movie experiences. MACHETEs trailer is so fucking great and infinitely quotable.
The missing reel for Death Proof was brilliant. Adding it back definitely was a mistake.
There was a werewolf movie in the 70's called " The Beast Must Die", which also had a guess the werewolf segment before the reveal!
I was gonna say that.
1970 had quite a bunch of film stops. Especially in comedies. Mel Brooks was mentioned several times but Marty Feldman also did it in his "The Last Remake of Beau Geste" by interrupting a fight scene with the used camel's sale commercial.
brilliant film, i was disappointed when a new film was released with the name but was not a remake of this classic.
@@bunter6 it was a brilliant film, with some great actors, but the "werewolf" was actually a German Shepherd!
The scene from Ghost and the Shell also shows many different shells identical to Major Kosignogi [obviously SIC] to drive home the fact that she no longer feels individualistic.
This was a terrific list! Well-researched and wonderful variety in its content! I really appreciate all you guys at What Culture not just doing top ten lists with all modern films. Thank you. And have an amazing day, Jules! You are awesome!
Yes of course the one in Funny Games. So iconic!
I literally stopped watching this video when I found out they didn't know what literally meant.
Can't help but think of Wayne's World's multiple endings!
I was looking forward to seeing the commercial breaks in the original Robocop movie make this list. Maybe on the next one 👍🏼
Would Clue and Wayne's World fall into this category with all their alternate endings?
In the 1965 Beatles movie "Help!" In the middle of the movie, a screen with the world intermition comes up....then we are treated to a bizarre sequence of the beatles walking in a park and doing.... something....then there is an end of intermition screen....then the movie continues
Im suprised The Beast Must Die isnt on here theres a literally break so the audience can discuss who they think is the werewolf and why Also the sequence from ghost in the shell deepens what the city looks like how people live and so on and I think the world of ghost in the shell is just as important as the characters
"Ten little....." was original called another racist name. ?Culture should do a video on that as well. Name changes for books and movies.
@@jimthar17 The novel wasn't called Ten Little Indians originally.
@@jimthar17 The original title had the racist N- word in it. The word that some people still use to insult black people.
No Blazing Saddles?
The "Intermission" during Monty Python and the Holy Grail while Arthur is on the bridge.
Wayne's World's famous scooby-doo ending should be here, and Birds of Prey has quite a lot of the 'I forgot to mention' scenes, some of which work. One of the great failures of the old version of Pete's Dragon is how they put Helen Reddy's song "Candle on the Water' right in the middle, completely stopping the film to no narrative purpose. I saw a TV version of the movie which improved it greatly by making that song play over the opening credits, rather than the standard Disney overture.
How is the Spaceballs scene when they are watching themselves on instant VHS not here
BULLSHIT!!!
That scene in Ghost in the Shell is absolutely essential to the core story.
It’s central to Kusonagi’s character development.
She sees someone with her exact same body, and it juxtapositions with her love of diving.
And by the way, of you hadn’t figured it out she love diving because she can drown out the distractions and be left alone with her conscience, which she is obsessed with the nature of.
Exactly what I'm talking about!
I was here to make sure Gremlins 2 was covered, and you didn’t disappoint!
I was here to make sure you thumbed up your own comment immediately after posting it, and you didn't disappoint!
@@LeviBulger I came back to make sure I actually hadn't *and* got confused ... we should both be satisfied now XD
While unaware of Fatty Arbuckle's fourth wall break, in Buster Keaton's film _One Week_ (possibly his best short film), his wife is shown taking a bath, and she drops the soap outside the bathtub. As she begins to lean forward to retrieve it, she looks up and notices we the audience. From nowhere a hand comes into the frame, covering the lens for a few moments, and as it pulls back and away, the smiling wife is safely back in the tub to scrubbing herself with the soap, also clearly relieved she did not have to expose herself.
Also, my favourite Missing Reel in _Grindhouse_ was jarringly cutting from a "love scene" to the zombies outside converging on the building; the sudden juxtaposition literally had me laughing out loud in the theater...
Wasn't Hobo with a shotgun another fake trailer that became a film?
It was, but it wasn’t shown in every territory. I think only some theatres in America got it and Canada definitely did. The rest were shown everywhere.
The very first time I experienced this was in the movie, was in the 1968 comedy "Yours, Mine, and Ours", still one of the best comedies in my opinion. Just after the friend has arranged a meeting between Lucille Ball's character and Henry Fonda's character, the film stops while he addresses the audience justifying his "little white lie."
Lion King 1.5 when I believe it's Pumba sits on the remote and changes it to infomercials.
I absolutely love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. That was hilarious. And I actually sat through Grindhouse in the theater. Even loved the mock movie trailers. I also loved the break in Gremlins 2, which still makes my husband and I laugh.
I actually remember seeing Gremlins 2 in the theatre and when that part happened, everyone looked back and up to the projectionist to see what was going on and the Hulk Hogan part played and there was loads of laughter and cheering! Was a lot of fun
Same! Was totally looking back to see what happened!
THE MIDDLE OF THE FILM in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life.
I remember renting gremlins 2. And when they screwed up the tape my dad had a moment of sheer panic thinking the tape (and our VCR) was now ruined. Just as he get to the VCR to adjust the tracking or eject the tape the gremlins appeared making shadow puppets and laughing. My Dad started to laugh and said he had a slight feeling it was going to be part of the movie but still had a major fear moment.
I did the exact same thing when I first rented the movie.
Promised much and delivered very little. This appears to be a few ‘chosen’ films from a vast number that are out there that do it so much better.
Wait... Is that Robert Picardo aka Holodoc aka Schweitzer at 6:44?
That first one reminds me of “the beast must die”. It does the same thing. Except it’s a werewolf break.
Deadpool should do this, my goodness that would be a nice treat and a call back too the comics...
Deadpool does the rewind while quite literally telling the audience exactly what he is going...
No Spaceballs??? No Blazing Saddles???
Surprised you didn't include Spaceballs for the "when will then be now?" scene.
Personal favourite is Black Dynamite when one of the characters hits a stuntman too hard, the stuntman breaks and begins to say 'motherfu_' then theres a hard cut where an entirely new stuntman taking the punch with no problem
Black dynamite is amazing
I threw that shit before i walked in the room!
A number of old movies had "whodunnit breaks" like the one in 10 Little Indians. "The Beast Must Die" and "Homicidal" are a couple of other examples.
One of my favorites is The Big Short, a movie which is based on a true story. There a couple of Fourth Wall Breaks in the film but one of my favorites occurs in a major bank lobby and the characters turn to the camera and tell the viewers the scene didn’t actually play out exactly like this but it works better for the purposes of the movie.
I definitely expected Ferris Bueller’s day off to be on this list
Really?! No mention of Spaceballs?
There is an actual intermission in Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai." (1954 I think.)
For the second film of your selection, «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», if you accept the song «Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head» you can easily accept the sepia montage! :-)
More seriously I had no problem with the montage scene when I saw it. According to IMDB web site there is an explanation:
This movie was filmed roughly the same time as Hello, Dolly! (1969), on the soundstage next door. Director George Roy Hill believed that the studio would allow him to film the New
York City scenes on "Dolly's" sets, since the two films' daily shooting schedules were totally different. After production started, though, the studio informed him that it wanted to keep
the sets for "Dolly" a secret, and so refused him permission. To work around this, Hill had Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Katharine Ross simply pose on the sets and took photos
of them. He then inserted images of the three stars into a series of three hundred actual period photos and spliced the two different sets (real and posed) together to form the New
York City montage.
In Star Trek 4 when we stop and watch footage from Star Trek 2 explaining the genesis device.
The montage of Ghost in a Shell includes numerous scenes of juxtaposing humans with manikins in mirrored windows and pools of water.
So...you guys missed EVERY major theme of the film if you called it 'pointless'
Unrelated, but man, when you realize how differently robert downey jr and val kilmer have aged since making kiss kiss bang bang!
I love Hulk Hogan's fourth wall breaking apology for his behaviour to other viewers of 'Gremlins 2'. It's the icing on the cake for this funny intermission.