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robert altman's satirical noir "the player" about hollywood ends with the antihero being pitched a movie version of his own story, complete with an unlikely happy ending. the long-running musical "a chorus line" dramatizes its own creation, and the life stories of its own original cast members. the famous final number does double duty as the showstopper for both the musical the audience is watching and the one the characters are appearing in. "austin powers in goldmember" begins with an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by steven spielberg. near the ending, the events of the film itself are revealed to be a movie being enjoyed by the characters. jim henson's the muppet movie is framed as a screening of the movie itself, and the screenplay for the movie is present inside the movie, which ends with an abstracted, abbreviated re-staging of its own events. the 1985 tim burton film "pee-wee's big adventure" ends with the main characters watching a film version of their own adventures, but as reimagined as a hollywood blockbuster action film, with james brolin as a more stereotypically manly version of the paul reubens title character. episode 14 of the anime series "martian successor nadesico" is essentially a clip show, but has several newly animated segments based on "gekigangar iii", an anime that exists within its universe and that many characters are fans of, that involves the characters of that show watching nadesico. the episode ends with the crew of the nadesico watching the very same episode of gekigangar, causing a paradox. mel brooks's 1974 comedy "blazing saddles" leaves its western setting when the climactic fight scene breaks out, revealing the setting to have been a set in the warner bros. studio lot; the fight spills out onto an adjacent musical set, then into the studio canteen, and finally onto the streets. the two protagonists arrive at grauman's chinese theater, which is showing the "premiere" of "blazing saddles"; they enter the cinema to watch the conclusion of their own film. brooks recycled the gag in his 1987 "star wars" parody, "spaceballs", where the villains are able to locate the heroes by watching a copy of the movie they are in on vhs video tape (a comic exaggeration of the phenomenon of films being available on video before their theatrical release). brooks also made the 1976 parody "silent movie" about a buffoonish team of filmmakers trying to make the first hollywood silent film in forty years—which is essentially that film itself (another forty years later, life imitated art imitating art, when an actual modern silent movie became a hit, the oscar nominated "the artist"). in the latter two films of the "scream" horror trilogy, a film-within-a-film format is used when the events of the first film spawn their own horror trilogy within the films themselves. in "scream 2", characters get killed while watching a film version of the events in the first "scream" film, while in "scream 3" the actors playing the trilogy's characters end up getting killed, much in the same way as the characters they are playing on screen. in the latest "scream" movie, "scream 4", in the opening sequence, two characters are watching stab 7 before they get killed. also, the characters of stab 7 are watching stab 6. there's also a party in which all seven stab movies were going to be shown. references are also made to stab 5 involving time travel as a plot device.
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