Editing Story within a story (section)

==== Story within a film ====
The 2002 martial arts epic [[Hero (2002 film)|''Hero'']] presented the same narrative several different times, as recounted by different storytellers, but with both factual and aesthetic differences. Similarly, in the whimsical 1988 [[Terry Gilliam]] film ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'', and the 2003 [[Tim Burton]] film ''[[Big Fish]]'', the bulk of the film is a series of stories told by an (extremely) unreliable narrator. In the 2006 Tarsem film [[The Fall (2006 film)|''The Fall'']], an injured silent-movie stuntman tells [[heroic fantasy]] stories to a little girl with a broken arm to pass time in the hospital, which the film visualizes and presents with the stuntman's voice becoming voiceover narration. The fantasy tale bleeds back into and comments on the film's "present-tense" story. There are often incongruities based on the fact that the stuntman is an American and the girl Persian—the stuntman's voiceover refers to "Indians", "a squaw" and "a teepee", but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle. The same conceit of an unreliable narrator was used to very different effect in the 1995 crime drama ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' (which garnered an Oscar for [[Kevin Spacey]]'s performance).

[[Walt Disney]]'s 1946 live-action drama film ''[[Song of the South]]'' has three animated sequences, all based on the [[Br'er Rabbit]] stories, told as moral fables by [[Uncle Remus]] ([[James Baskett]]) to seven-year-old Johnny ([[Bobby Driscoll]]) and his friends Ginny ([[Luana Patten]]) and Toby (Glenn Leedy).

The seminal 1950 Japanese film [[Rashomon (film)|''Rashomon'']], based on the Japanese short story "[[In a Grove]]" (1921), utilizes the [[Flashback (narrative)|flashback]]-within-a-flashback technique. The story unfolds in flashback as the four witnesses in the story—the bandit, the murdered [[samurai]], his wife, and the nameless woodcutter—recount the events of one afternoon in a grove. But it is also a flashback within a flashback, because the accounts of the witnesses are being retold by a woodcutter and a priest to a ribald commoner as they wait out a rainstorm in a ruined gatehouse.

The film ''[[Inception]]'' has a deeply nested structure that is itself part of the setting, as the characters travel deeper and deeper into layers of dreams within dreams. Similarly, in the beginning of the music video for the [[Michael Jackson]] song "[[Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)|Thriller]]", the heroine is terrorized by her monster boyfriend in what turns out to be a film within a dream. The film ''[[The Grand Budapest Hotel]]'' has four layers of narration: starting with a young girl at the author's memorial reading his book, it cuts to the old author in 1985 telling of an incident in 1968 when he, as a young author, stayed at the hotel and met the owner, old Zero. He was then told the story of young Zero and M. Gustave, from 1932, which makes up most of the narrative.
Then in 2025, The film [[Dog Man_(film)|Dog Man]] is a flim in a comic for the [[Dog Man]] series.