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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
Also, "staring-directly-into-the-camera", something Kitano does on every single film... which is like my favorite thing in the world... Did Godard invent that?
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No.
It's called 'breaking the fourth wall' and The Marx Brothers were the first to use it in films that had sound. It's a device that prior to them,
had only been done by filmmakers in silent films --for obvious reasons. Stories were told very differently back in those days.
The language of film was in it's infancy and actors had to literally spoonfeed the audiences into understanding the plot.