Heh, I’m surprised this expression was mysterious to so many people. Someone asked about it on Discord too. “The fourth wall” is the wall between characters and the viewer. Normally characters on a TV show would never acknowledge the viewer by mentioning that they’re on a TV show, for instance. If they do, that’s called breaking the fourth wall.
It can be when they acknowledge they are fictional, but it is often more subtle than that. In Shakespeare, the major characters often have speeches where they talk partly to themselves and partly to the audience. As I understand it, the key point is not that the character recognizes that they are fictional, but the character acknowledges that the audience is present. The opening speech by Richard in Richard III (“Now is the winter of our discontent …”) tells the audience what they need to know about the situation, and about the speaker – but it is clearly the character, not an actor playing the character.
The ‘fictional’ aspect does come in too sometimes, as with Puck from the final lines of A Midsummer Nights Dream: “If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber’d here while these visions did appear.” But here again, ‘we’ are shadows, not actors playing these characters.
I think the name of the post should be “Perfect, two perfect.” because they are two perfect beauties.
OK, I’m stupid, but WTF is “4th wall” about? Apart from something to confuse people? Or make them look stupid so others can laugh?
Heh, I’m surprised this expression was mysterious to so many people. Someone asked about it on Discord too. “The fourth wall” is the wall between characters and the viewer. Normally characters on a TV show would never acknowledge the viewer by mentioning that they’re on a TV show, for instance. If they do, that’s called breaking the fourth wall.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakingTheFourthWall
Basically, it is when a fictional character acknowledges that they are fictional.
It can be when they acknowledge they are fictional, but it is often more subtle than that. In Shakespeare, the major characters often have speeches where they talk partly to themselves and partly to the audience. As I understand it, the key point is not that the character recognizes that they are fictional, but the character acknowledges that the audience is present. The opening speech by Richard in Richard III (“Now is the winter of our discontent …”) tells the audience what they need to know about the situation, and about the speaker – but it is clearly the character, not an actor playing the character.
The ‘fictional’ aspect does come in too sometimes, as with Puck from the final lines of A Midsummer Nights Dream: “If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but slumber’d here while these visions did appear.” But here again, ‘we’ are shadows, not actors playing these characters.
Pretty? Definitely yes.
Perfect? No, could make a few improvements.
4th wall break? Feel free!
They really are just too perfect for this, aren’t they?
I personally like 4th wall breaks and I hope that there will be more 4th wall breaking captions in the future, regardless of who makes said captions…
As a huge Deadpool fan, I love to break the fourth wall. Self aware humour is always cool. I’ve been trying to think of more captions that do it.