Tell Us About A Director Cameo In A Movie That Most People Aren't Aware Of
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Have you ever watched a movie, and noticed something, or in this case someone, distracting and thought to yourself, "Wait. Is that the director?!"
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Well, recently, Reddit user u/TheChainLink2 had this epiphany when they noticed director John Landis's cameo in his 1981 film An American Werewolf in London:
"The man who gets hit by a car and thrown through a window in this shot is the film's writer and director John Landis making a cameo."
So, that got me thinking. What's another fun director cameo in a movie you know of?
For example, many people know Alfred Hitchcock famously made cameos in nearly all of his feature films. Here he is in Rear Window:
And there are also less subtle cameos by directors like Steven Spielberg in The Blues Brothers (which he did not direct, but cameo-loving John Landis did).
Then, there are the not-so-popular cameos by M. Night Shyamalan, who should probably stick to directing rather than acting, as his turn in Signs exemplifies:
But I wanna know mooooooore.
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