Dir. Tom Stoppard. By Tom Stoppard. Perf. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss. Cinecom Entertainment Group, 1991. a normal person watching the movie probably thinks "Oh, they just broke the fourth wall." If you think about it, no. Of course you can argue both sides of the coin. Some might say it's just a coincidence that they said that. If you think about it, the title says they're dead, nothing else. Looking back they knew they were dead. In the film the players acted out the scene