After another late-night screening of ‘Deadpool 2’ and a deepened commitment to my belief that Zazie Beetz needs a solo Domino movie, I was interested to find a friend saying she could not stand the Deadpool films because the character spoke directly to the audience. It broke her suspension of disbelief, and reminded her that she was watching “a falsehood,” as she put it, which I can sort of understand. Breaking the fourth wall is always a tough proposition in fiction, but sometimes I find it incredibly charming and effective depending on the story, leading to today’s self-referential query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still loves Tom Robbins tendency to talk to the reader, even if his work hasn’t always aged well, asking: Fourth Wall Breaking: Yay Or Nay?
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Yay in small doses, it gets really old really fast.
Oh, I also think Deadpool 2 is probably the best Marvel movie.
I’m all for it as long as it’s clever. I tend to enjoy scripted entertainment from a writing perspective, so I’m pretty much always aware that I’m reading/watching fiction. With that being the case, I don’t really have much immersion to break.