Hi,
does anybody know any other movies where a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world?
To my embarrassment only "Last Action Hero" springs to mind... ;-)
I'm writing a university paper about this topic, so any help is very much appriciated.
Thanks
Hello,
Sherlock Jr. 1924 by Buster Keaton must be one of the first. However, the character walks on screen from reality rather than the other way round.
Pleasantville is kind of the opposite (real world character entering a show), but probably relevant to whatever you're writing. It's also a really overlooked movie.
Videodrome touches on this sort of thing a bit, but is a pretty dark and relatively abstract movie by comparison. It's also not particularly great IMHO.
Fun fact: In both TPRoC and Pleasantville, Jeff Daniels plays a sweet character from idyllic B&W screen fiction who turns to color with exposure to reality.
shareYes blurring reality and make-belief is another topic. Then we could go talking about Truffaut, Godard, Lynch and so on. Even Play It Again, Sam. The French Lieutenant's Woman is another good film. In it reality and fiction get mixed up. Let alone Jean Rouch's sociological documentaries in the 1950's-60's..
shareLast action hero :)
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"being john malkovich" is amazing
if anyone has a long list of these kinda movies please reply to my comment :)
INLAND EMPIRE by David Lynch
shareI think David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" might qualify as well.
There is definitely a film-within-a-film happening inside that movie, although how much of that film bleeds into the fantasy/reality blur is up for interpretation. There's too much going on in that movie to say for sure.
Lamberto Bava's horror movie Demons features a horror movie within the movie which seems to cause an outbreak of demonic possession in the theatre it's shown in.
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