Films and shows which tell the story of how they themselves were produced

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info⁩ to ⁨moviesandtv@lemmy.film⁩

In The Office (US version) it is revealed that the mockumentary does exist inside the universe. Dunder-Mifflin is even interviewed as stars of the show and Pam has a thing for the boom mic operator.

Netflix’ Tick tick boom is based on an eponymous theatre play, which told the background story of the shows creative process. It’s mein character is a fictions version of the creator.

Season 4 of the Arrested Development revolves around Michael getting release rights from the family members to create a show based on the story. He even hires a fictitious version of Ron Howard who is the real show’s director.

Marvel’s Shehulk ends with the main character discussing the production with a fictionalised version of Kevin Feige.

These are for examples that I could come up with from the top of my head. Can you think of any other?

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456c737465720a@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Spike Jonzes’s Adaptation shows Charlie Kaufman writing the screenplay for the movie in itself.

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- tmyakal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And Kaufman’s twin brother writing an arguably better screenplay.
  
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  - 456c737465720a@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The race of horse versus bike!
    
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- Nihilore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Adaptation was my first thought, one of my favourite movie
  
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  - 456c737465720a@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes!
    
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ISOmorph@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Didn’t Stargate have a show inside the show called Wormhole Extreme or something like that? And Peter DeLuise who directed Stargate was the director on the fake show as well.

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davefischer@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The entire Muppet Movie is about going to Hollywood to make The Muppet Movie.

And of course, the ending of Holy Mountain.

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CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Seinfeld has an arc where Seinfeld writes a show about his own life, aka the show we’re watching. clip

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OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Japanese film One Cut of the Dead: I don’t want to explain too much, but if you want a movie that takes this concept to the furthest degree then you should check it out.

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- Nihilore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes! This movie is brilliant
  
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jonesy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One Cut of the Dead is one that comes to mind, you can watch the zombie movie at the start, and then the rest of the movie is the crazy things that went on in the background to make the movie. It’s a lot of fun.

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grooving@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Astroid city by wes anderson is very meta. The lead talks to the director in the movie asking about his motivation etc.

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Haus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I thought it was interesting that Modern Family was sort of presented as a reality show, but as far as I can remember, they never showed any of the crew/interviewers.

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nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Oh, also the Human Centipede trilogy. I haven’t seen it, but my understanding is

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the second film has the first one in its universe, then the third one includes the second film and immediately leads up to the first one again

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- Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The third one also includes >-the director of the series, Tom Hopper, being invited to see the “real life” human centipede, only to be horrified by what his movies inspired in “real life.”-<
  
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garold@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Muppet Movie is all about the Muppets meeting and trying to get to Hollywood to become movie stars. At the beginning and end you see the Muppets in a theater watching their own movie.

Actually a lot of other Muppet content is similarly meta.

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davefischer@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Funeral Parade of Roses is intercut with interviews with the actors.

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kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wow…meta overload! 🤯 So mainstream is Postmodernist self-reference that it’s no longer even recognized as such, it’s almost banality. Maybe the owls really aren’t what they seem after all?

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GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Trailer park boys regularly address the film crew. In one of the later seasons Tom Arnold plays himself as a superfan of the show, and geeks out over the characters

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Clerks 3 is about Kevin Smith’s heart attack and then making of a movie very similar to Clerks.

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