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#6 · Posted: 31 May 2007 13:03
Tintin also sort of breaks the fourth wall to look knowingly at the reader on the cover of The Castafiore Emerald, of course. But you may well be right, labrador road, that the instance at the end of King Ottokar's Sceptre is the only time Tintin does it within the books. I can't think of another one, anyway. If there is another one, though, someone on this forum will spot it!
Snowy sort of seems to be breaking the fourth wall on the last page of Flight 714, as he seems to by looking at the reader directly when he thinks: "I could tell them a thing or two!...But no one would believe me!" In earlier books, this comment of Snowy's would have been in a speech-balloon, but in this book Hergé starts using thought-balloons for Snowy's thoughts (and other people's) for the first time, I think. But even though it's in a thought-balloon, Snowy's comment here seems directed at the reader, because of his outward gaze.
I don't know what the "meta-something" film term you're trying to remember is, tuhatkauno, but in the theatre, breaking out of the action to deliver a line to the audience that the other characters don't hear is called delivering an aside. Asides are perhaps used most frequently in Restoration Comedy (plays of the late 17th century), usually to enable a character to reveal his true thoughts or intentions to the audience, ones which he's keeping from the other characters.
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