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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!_*
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'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
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.
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
"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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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!
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?
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
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.
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.
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 ♥
"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”.
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.
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.
The Sum of Us is one of the best ones I've seen. The scene where Jack Thompson is in a coma and his son (played by Russell Crowe) is talking to him. Then it pauses for a second and the complete comatose Thompson sits up, narrates for a bit, then goes back into his comatose state. It was so well done that it's almost like seeing a mannequin come to life briefly.
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
“Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” was filmed at the same time as “Hello Dolly” and the New York set was built for Dolly. Director Hill used the set to film a New York sequence for BC/SK but was then told he couldn’t reveal it before HD was released. Any film on the NY set had to be scrapped. So they went back and took still photos of Butch, The Kid, and Etta on the NY set and pasted these images into real period photos of New York.
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?
That segment in GITS is possibly my favorite part of the film. You get a wider perspective on the city, see what's happening in the normal course of events. I especially like when she sees herself at a table through a window and realize she's not the only one who has that prosthetic. Has kind of a creepy feeling to it.
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.
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."
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.
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.
I still remember the song from that Butch and Sundance scene too, it was Raindrops Keep Falling on my head. It was so out of place it just felt strange. I mean the film was released before I was born so I saw it as a child and I remember looking at my dad confused and asking what was going on and him just said "Yep, this is a strange bit". It didn't help much, but all these years later and rewatching it, its about the best I can come up with too.
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.
A better Bergman example would be "The Passion of Anna."The film occasionally breaks from the narrative and cuts to documentary-style interviews with the main actors, as themselves, each discussing their character's mental state over the course of the film.
Huge thumbs up for including Gremlins 2. No clue they changed the scene for the VHS release. When watching it on TV (Sci-Fi, TNT, etc. in the US) the theatre scene is included not the VHS version.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I still love Gremlins 2's cut away scene, the fact that as the events if the movie are going on around them as they are watching the movie with us always amuses me.
Not reall a show stopper, but as a projectionist a heart-stopper. In the musical "Xanadu", when the cast goes to the clothing store to get Gene Kelly's character some "glitz", at one point Kelly stomps his foot and the film frame rolls up into the next shot. When I ran my test screening before opening night, I was in the theatre watching it and when that happened, I got up to run back to the booth in a panic. As I turned back to check the screen at the door, it dawned on me that it was a part of the shot, not the film jumping to break in the projector. I left a note for my other projectionists so they wouldn't get surprised.
I gotta say thanks to Jules for his inspiring words at the end of each video. I remember a couple months back I was depressed watching RU-vid and after your video you said things will get better and keep smashing life because we all deserve happiness. That made me feel great. Like the universe was telling me to be happy 😊
Gremlins2; I was visiting a friend in the project booth of a multi-cinema and watching the movies through the little windows while standing near the projectors. After about a minute of watching Gremlins 2 this scene come up and I immediate thought "Oh No, What have I screwed up!". I quickly looked over at the rotating film platters and saw that the film was still rolling so everything was OK I guess. I was very relieved when the movie resumed normally but the initial scare really got my adrenaline going.
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 must say , the most surprising ?? maybe to me, but most comfortable moment of this video, was the end when you yourself spoke to us the audience !!! it was very comfortable and Thank You !!! you are cool !!!
