Muzzled Millie

[Henohenomoheji]

yeowch.<br><br>I think she didn't remove it so that we can get the joke. They're aware there's an audience watching, you know.<br><br><br>I love breaking the fourth fifth and sixth walls.<br><br>btw, which walls are the fifth and sixth? just in case they actually do exist and I say something I don't mean to.

[Gizensha]

Presumably fifth would be where something the audience does (directly) effects the outcome (that would be CYOA books, then, and games with multiple endings) and sixth would be a bonified crossover between the fiction and reality. But I'm extrapolating from fourth here.<br><br>It's first, second and third that I've never figured out.

[GhostWay]

The first, second, and third walls are supposed to be the walls surrounding a stage in a theatre. The fourth, or invisible, wall is between the stage and the audience. It is "broken" when the actors acknowledge the existance of the audience.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

That makes sense.

[Richard K Niner]

So, by extension, the fifth, six, and seventh walls separate the audience from the lobby.

[Muninn]

How about we think outside the box (outside the walls?) for a second and imagine the set not as a four sided shape but one with many many sides. Therefore the previous three walls that comprise the stage can be any number equal or above three, and the rest of the "walls" can be any number you want. Breaking the twelfth wall could be a common expression, where a member of the audience directly controls the focus and path of the play, because, though he be seated in the audience, he is actually a performer in the play, but this information is not revealed to the audience.

[Gizensha]

Just had an odd little thought about the fourth wall... Quite an effective stage effect was used in the second part of His Dark Materials... Um. This becomes awkward due to me not wanting to give any spoilers but to actually say what I have to say requires it... Um... Copy/paste the next parragraph if you're not bothered about them into notepad or a wordprocessor, I guess.<br><br><span style='font-size:2pt;line-height:100%'>During the land of the dead area of the books. the rear wall of the stage was a mirror, reflecting the audience. The audience became a mass of dead souls for this scene, surrounding the cast. Cast members came out of the audience and interacted with people on stage from the audience. It was extremely impressive.</span><br><br>However, with one of the first three walls (how are they numbered, 1 2 3 from left to right, or 1 being the back or 3 being the back? Anyway) essentially becoming a second fourth wall, was this breaking two fourth walls or breaking the second (or whatever) wall as well as the fourth wall?