10 Times Star Wars Broke The Fourth Wall

5. A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

Few films have ever been able to consistently grab hold of an audience's attention from the very first second of its runtime in quite the way the nine episodes of the Skywalker Saga did.

Silently feeding a line that would become almost instantly iconic, those legendary words of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." soon give way to one of the most rousing scores ever forged and an opening crawl which subsequently sets the stage for the events to come.

Yet, while all these slowly drifting words and grand orchestra undoubtedly set the tone for the operatic adventures that lie ahead, their very existence completely pulverises any notion of there being a fourth wall from minute-one.

Far from jarringly taking audiences out of the action, however, these now legendary floating paragraphs of bright yellow exposition have become a beloved part of the Star Wars cinematic experience and leave a rather disappointing gaping whole when left out in their traditional form entirely, as seen (or not) in Rogue One and Solo's opening titles.