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fourth wall
[ fawrth wawl ]
noun
- the imaginary, invisible wall, as across the front of a stage, that separates the world constructed by a play, movie, television show, video game, or literary work from the actual world inhabited by the audience.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fourth wall1
Idioms and Phrases
- break the fourth wall, to violate the conventional separation between the world of a play, movie, television show, video game, or literary work and the world inhabited by the viewer:
The actor鈥檚 periodic asides to the audience break the fourth wall and elicit much-needed laughs.
Example Sentences
What I love is that he breaks the fourth wall and it鈥檚 like, 鈥淚鈥檓 not real. OK? I鈥檓 not real. So, it鈥檚 you. It actually can鈥檛 be me because I don鈥檛 exist.鈥
For a brief second, the fourth wall of Godwin鈥檚 production is breached.
In the middle of Episode 3鈥檚 opening recitation of 鈥淭his is a true-ish story based on a lie,鈥 Phoenix Raei, the actor playing Hek, a PR crisis manager, starts to rattle off, 鈥淪ome names have been changed and characters invented which is鈥︹ before halting to stare through the fourth wall instead of just talking to it.
Breaking the fourth wall is an ancient thing, especially in European theater.
Fans of the show had plenty of notice, though, even if in the middle of 鈥淭he Finale鈥 Demetriou's Nadja breaks the fourth wall to seemingly address everyone watching at home.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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