Editing Meta-reference (section)

=== Film ===
''[[The Truman Show]]'' is a movie that contains a high degree of meta-reference. Truman, the protagonist, is unaware that he is part of a reality TV show, but the audience knows about the artificiality of both Truman's life and, by extension, the movie that is being watched. This is underscored by putting emphasis on the production process of the fictional reality TV show, which makes the audience aware of the same features being used in the movie at the time of watching. Further examples of meta-reference in the movie include spotlights falling from the sky seemingly out of the blue, or a raincloud which is curiously only raining on Truman following him around on Seahaven Beach. Both instances point to the artificiality of Truman's life as well as the film itself.

Other examples include films by [[Mel Brooks]], such as ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', which becomes a story about the production of the film, and ''[[Silent Movie]]'' is a silent movie about producing a silent movie. Additionally, ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' and its sequels frequently showed characters referring to the movie script to see what should happen next.