Movies in which movies are made about the characters in the movie.

Last Tango in Paris

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Zelig

Doesnt this happen in The Player

I think at the end, yeah. I think The King of Comedy too (is his memoir adapted into a movie?)

no, i don't believe so

in the player i think it's just that the movie signals at the end that it is now "a hollywood movie" and/or has been the whole time, not that you actually see the earlier part of the story adapted into something. a non-diagetic adaptation if u will

in fact in the final scene it's the real story you see adapt a movie.

The Player (1992) - the ending

oh lol i did forget about that final pitch! still a special case tho imo for "revealing" that the movie itself is a movie, that you have only been watching the movie all along.

american splendor

can't believe this thread forgot the most significant example in film history: austin powers in goldmember

Spaceballs

"revealing" that the movie itself is a movie, that you have only been watching the movie all along.

This is a rich tradition in broad comedies (ie not what the thread title specifies): Blazing Saddles, The Patsy by Jerry Lewis, etc.

holy grail

I'm Still Here

The Holy Mountain

8 1/2

Inglourious Basterds

I think I said in another thread recently (about best endings?) that the patsy did the holy mountain ending first and better

Godard’s La Chinoise and probably some others I’m forgetting right now.

I guess La Chinoise was at least partly about a movie being made about the characters, but it felt like some kind of faux documentary, although it doesn't seem clear to me who the characters are even talking to.

Such a strange movie. The most memorable scene to me was the extended discussion about terrorism between Wiazemsky and Jeanson on the train

trans-europ-express (sort of/maybe)

The sopranos example in the OP reminds me that breaking bad kinda did this with the narcocorrido video. (I could see them doing it for real in the final series of better call saul, with the only allusion to the events of bb being some really cheesy lifetime movie about Heisenberg that jimmy watches on tv in the present day or something)

There's a difference between a movie in a movie featuring the people in the movie and a movie in a movie featuring representations of people in the movie. The latter being what the OP is.

I mean I keep thinking Get Carter but that's not right.

Yeah this is one of those list threads that’s destined to be very short unless ppl go off script cause there are very few true examples