Proscenium Reveal: Difference between revisions

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'''Note:''' Proscenium reveals can be [[Mind Screw|Mind Screws]] for the audience, especially if they occur late in the proceedings. ([[David Lynch]], we're looking at you.) When citing such cases, consider tagging for spoilers.

== [[Film]] — Live Action ==

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* ''[[Ararat]]'' does this fairly often. It lets the audience watch the movie-within-a-movie just long enough to momentarily forget that's what they're watching, until the camera pans to show the director in his chair, or someone walks on the set to correct one of the actors.

* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' begins with the 20thCenturyFox logo shown on a stage (with the [[Fanfare]] performed by the pit orchestra below), [[Book Ends|and ends with the credits scrolling by on that same stage.]]

* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', like ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', opens in a theater that becomes the movie (only it never returns). And also has a weird example: Baby Doll getting lobotomized... followed by a play in which Sweet Pea in a blonde wig [[Who Writes This Crap|complains about it]] [[Post Modernism|ending with the heroine ending that way]]. {{spoiler|And Baby Doll is still lobotomized later on the picture.}}

* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', like ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', opens in a theater that becomes the movie (only it never returns). And also has a weird example: Baby Doll getting lobotomized... followed by a play in which Sweet Pea in a blonde wig [[Who Writes This Crap?|complains about it]] [[Post Modernism|ending with the heroine ending that way]]. {{spoiler|And Baby Doll is still lobotomized later on the picture.}}

* At the beginning of ''[[Team America World Police]]'', a [[Stylistic Suck|very crude puppet]] is jerked around in front of a laughably-bad background. This was done by the creators to troll their investors, as the film is itself done with puppets; after a few seconds (long enough that, the story goes, one of the investors yelled, "My God, they fucked us!"), the camera pulls back to reveal that the crude puppet is part of a puppet show on the streets of Paris, being worked by a much better puppet.

* [[Scream]] 4 begins with a typical [[Slasher Movie]] opening, with two teenage girls called by a mysterious and threatening stranger... until we see the ''[[Show Within a Show|Stab]]'' title screen and realize that it was actually just an opening to the [[Show Within a Show|movie within a movie.]] Then we see two more teenage girls watching ''that'' movie, and it turns out that ''this'' is actually the opening to the sequel to ''that'' movie... yeah. [[Crosses the Line Twice|It's that kind of movie.]]