"The Truman World" is not only advanced, but also has eternal reality, because we are now living in a "Truman world". The story of
is also not adapted from a novel, but originally written by screenwriter Andrew Nicole .
His screenwriting works include "Happy Terminal", and he wrote and directed classic movies such as " King of War ", "'s Last Minute ".
The Truman World Writer's Other Works
The original story of The Truman World, written by Andrew Nicol, is darker than it is now, set in New York City, and the protagonist is a teenager. After
was finally determined to be directed by Peter Weir , he suggested changing the story to be light and fun, and recommended Jim Carrey as Truman.
So Andrew Nicole revised the script more than a dozen drafts, and finally formed the plot of this 7x24-hour live broadcast of the reality show. The protagonist also changed from a teenager to an adult, and the problems encountered became a mid-life crisis.
However, Jim Carrey's image and behavior in the film still seem to be "pretending to be tender", like a big boy who has not grown up, because the protagonist of the original story is set at a young age.
"The Truman World" screenwriter Andrew Nicole
when filming, director Peter Weir left a lot of details in order to create the atmosphere of Truman being broadcast live 24 hours a day and a metaphor for the false world. The first hidden but important easter egg of
is the ubiquitous camera.
Audiences who have seen this movie know that Truman was secretly filmed by cameras from all angles.
Although these candid effects are simulated with peeping point lenses, the director and the artist are still very strict, and they placed a lot of hidden camera props without affecting the whole environment.
These props are those little black spots that appear in the environment, which can be seen at the beginning of the movie, all over the Truman house.
His car, neighbor's trash can, and pillars on the roadside, including the "black gem" ring worn by Truman, is actually a camera.
This ring was deliberately arranged by the director to give Truman's father to him when he was drowning, just to make Truman wear it all the time because he missed his father, which would add a camera seat closest to the protagonist.
These ubiquitous black spots explain why Truman is photographed everywhere. The second easter egg in the
film is the house where Truman lived and the entire community. From the very beginning of the
movie, the Truman family's house and his community made a lasting impression on the audience. The whole town of
looks very regular, but it looks both peaceful and rigid, always giving people a faint sense of restraint. The appearance of the
community is very appropriate to the theme of the film, which is the effect the director wants.
took a while to find the location, and the town wasn't easy.
The small town where Truman lives
In the early stage of the film, director Peter Weir couldn't find a suitable shooting location until his wife recommended Florida a small called "Seaside" (Seaside). town.
This small town is located on the coast of Walton County in the northwest of Florida, and is a piece of private land as a whole. The small town of
was founded by husband and wife Robert and Daryl Davis, who also made guest appearances as two passersby that Truman saw when he began to suspect that the world was a conspiracy.
"The Truman World" filming location developer Davies and his wife
The Davies made a cameo in the movie
Robert Davies' grandfather bought 32 hectares of land here as a private holiday beach. After
passed the land to Robert, he and his wife, together with a construction company, several architects and architectural scholars, built the entire town according to the new urbanist architectural concept that was emerging in the United States at that time, and it was completed in about 1985.
The whole town became an early example of new urbanist architecture, won numerous awards in the architectural world, and was the subject of research by architectural scholars.
Because the overall design, planning, and construction of this small town are very deliberate, and it is also private property, isolated from the world.
is like a perfect world created by "God", so it is very suitable for the theme of "The Truman World". The fact that
can find such a location is also the luck of the film, and it has also become the basis for the success of the film.
The relative location of the "Seaside" town in Florida
In addition, the house where Truman lives in the town is also very old, it belongs to the Florida political family Don and Matt Gates. The Gates family, Matt Gates is also now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The house of the Gates family was used for the shooting of the Truman family
The owner of the house Matt Gates
In addition to the easter eggs mentioned above, there are some small details in "The Truman World" that are also very interesting.
For example, we all know that Truman's name, Truman, is a pun, which is very connotative.
And his last name, Burbank, is just as ironic.
The word Burbank comes from "Burbank City" and "Burbank Studio" near Los Angeles.
Burbank is one of the urban agglomerations in the greater Los Angeles area of , and is also the headquarters of many media, film and television cultural institutions.
such as the familiar NBC, Disney, ABC, Warner , DC, etc. are all located in this city.
Hollywood Media Center Burbank
The office area of some film and television media companies located in Burbank
So the name Truman Burbank is made up of "real people" and media industry landmarks, which means that he is a person created by the media and created by the media. Manipulated "real people".
In addition, "The Truman World" is a TV program, and viewers can also see a lot of placement advertisements in it.
These advertisements are naturally brought out in life scenes by fake characters around Truman, mainly by Truman's wife.
Similarly, Truman's Pony Malone has always been the face of the black-packed beer.
Every time he talks to Truman, he brings this beer and deliberately shows it to the camera.
So the bar we see in the real world in the movie also only sells this beer, the bar's bartender and the audience are big fans of "The Truman Show" and they also buy the product on TV. The
movie also has an interesting easter egg, which is the scene where Truman goes to a travel agency to book a ticket.
Truman has never bought a ticket before, but now he especially wants to go to Fiji .
So the program team unlocked a new scene for Truman, which is the travel agency.
But the travel agency scene was prepared in a hurry, the actors who came in even forgot to take off the napkins when they put on makeup.
This detail also reminds the audience that the world where Truman lives is actually a "reality show" program, and everyone is acting with Truman, the only "real person".
Many viewers thought the final scene of "The Truman World" was particularly touching.
Truman overcomes his fear of the sea and breaks through the bad weather created by the show team to reach the end of the world.
This scene is the director and screenwriter paying tribute to the British author C.S. Lewis 's children's novel "The Chronicles of Narnia".
has this line at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in the Chronicles of Narnia series:
A ship sails to the end of the "known" world and encounters the sky - a blue wall with a The door to the "other" world.
This scene at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is visualized by The Truman World. After
Truman said the classic line "Good morning, good afternoon and good night", he turned and walked towards the ending of another world. The ending of
touched the audience in the movie, and also touched countless of us who watched the movie.
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