There is a deleted scene in the film where they discuss replacing Truman. Basically they bring in a new “Truman”, film both of them, then the original Truman dies, and the show only follows new “Truman”.
I assume if Truman were heading down a path where he needed to be replaced they’d do something similar.
They would actually kill him?
They do actually nearly kill him in the movie. Paul Giamatti’s character protests about this and refuses to cooperate when Ed Harris’ character wants a full-blown hurricane at sea to try and get Truman to comply
Other people have already mentioned it but they literally raised him to be the ideal happy go lucky person.
Sure he figured it out, but there is no way he would become a sociopath with all the love and attention they gave him.
I think they control the ecosystem so much he couldn’t. They’d always have a cop or two on duty to stop him or keep him in line or probably just remove whatever demographic he’s targeting
Sometimes people just decide for evil.
i mean
i was in two hit and runs today. two! at nonconsecutive intersections. while stopped. the bastards hit the same mirror. it still works, it’s just missing the plastic fairing now because some jackass decided to split lanes and plow into my mirror. and then another jackass did. like what the hell. if you’ve ever gotten a sign from the universe to go back to bed.Me too, I also sleept poorly.
I choose sleep.
Truman Show but it turns out he is anserial killer would be a fun teist story.
Anon should probably put down the crack pipe…
He would go to jail, it would make the logistics of the program much easier.
I am actually now surprised they did not push for something like that to save money.
Didn’t work for My Name is Earl!
They were saving it for the late season rating slump.
Viewership would probably drop, and the product placement embedded in the show that funded the whole program would be difficult to do in jail.
Not really since Truman would have no concept of what jail was other than what they tell him it is. They could make jail be a 24/7 infomercial that he has to perform and he would believe it because it is literally all he knows.
You’re probably right about the viewership though since a large part of the appeal seemed to be the parasocial relationship with a man who was presented as a decent and relatable guy.
Jumping the shark and downsizing the operation is more realistic.
The movie was before the realityshow boom, the least realistic part is everybody being hooked up in a such static show. They would have tried different things to keep the ratings, actually him being a molester would have given a hike to the ratings, maybe also offering him to join a gang in jail, or giving him missions to kill other people.
Product placement is the least of my worries, give me any product I will shoehorn it in a jail environment.
Shark repellent.
Easy: breakout attempt, needs to cross shark-guarded moat around the walls.
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The Truman Show didn’t have commercial breaks or ad reads. People in his environment may speak highly of a product (sometimes to a suspicious degree), but they only spoke to people inside the simulation. The products had to naturally fit into his environment.
He’s also been raised to perceive the world as Christof (Christophe? Kristof? Ed Harris’ character) designed it. So ubiquitous product placement would not have felt strange to him, or even people overly talking about a product, because he’d have nothing to compare this behavior to. Not until he began to suspect things, which is when he confronts his wife (“who the hell are you talking to?”)
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What I’m saying is that the show would have evolved to do more ads.
“Trueman’s jail is a converted fsctory, we can put ads on the wall from when it was a factory.”
– Truman Show Producers
I feel the actual answer is the show would have simply made sure no children were ever anywhere near Truman. They controlled every aspect of his life, after all.
They also raised him. It’s not like sexual predators just appear out of nowhere.
Idk when I came out as gay, or in my parents eyes, a child molester. They asked if I was touched as child by a priest or family friend. Of course they were wrong, I was just born this way.
I really need to start posting on an anonymous acct
“Say what you like about Christof, at least he didn’t molest Truman as a kid, leading to him becoming a sexual oredator himself.”
I know it was typo, but the mental image of a sexual orator pleased me greatly, “Four score and, how You doin’?!”
Imagine if he was a sexual orabator all lookin in the mirror like oh yeah you like that beard don’t you oh what you want I should take off this hat General Lee mmm (strokes beard) call me Mr President then well talk meet u at appopatjx nnngh
That really was an interesting movie
The craziest thing is that it’s not based on a book. Ths cultural capital of the 90s absolutely baffles me - so many profound but original movies! For a good 7-10 years, Hollywood wasn’t Hollywood’ing
90s is my favorite era of cinema. I love that a look of a little film grain but everything is still really clear.
And they didn’t try to make some stupid sequel, even though it was a big money maker. Amazing!
IDK. I could see a sequel making sense. After Truman leaves, the dome is still there and all the infrastructure still exists. Why wouldn’t they just go again with another kid? Hell, maybe that just becomes part of the show’s appeal. You know they’re going to figure it out eventually, and all the drama is on seeing how long that takes and what the reaction will be. You wouldn’t even have to use many of the same characters.
Now Truman himself going back in the dome? That would be stupid.
If you got today’s Jim Carrey to do a sequel where he’s disenfranchised by the world, where Truman has had his coattails ridden by porn stars and politicians and celebrities all alike, because he’s the most famous man on the planet, until they all got tired of him, and just left him alone in a strange world that he’s completely and totally unprepared for, having been raised in a 1940s nuclear family-esque society his entire life…
Then Christoph’s successor, Paul Giamati, comes and finds him in a bar one night and says, we’re doing the Truman Show again. Do you want to come back and be the new Truman’s father?
The whole show comes from Truman getting to re-experience everything that he went through from the other side, and figuring out how to rationalize that and make the best of the situation as he guides his child and protege through life in the Truman Show universe with Elan, then it could be a very good movie.
There’s a lot of allegory that it could rely on as well, Plato’s allegory of the cave, what it would mean to go back in the cave once you’ve seen the light outside, what it would mean to intentionally be an actor, creating a false reality for an innocent person to experience.
And what would happen if the new Truman, at the age of 19 or 21, suddenly realizes the truth of the situation, and everything goes off the rails again, and the original Truman is forced to decide whether to help his protégé either escape the show, and go through the same experiences that he had gone through outside of the dome, or to somehow convince him to stay, because now, with 30 years of experience, the original Truman knows better.
It could also play on the idea of older people with more experience knowing things that younger people do not, even though the younger people feel right and true and convicted of their convictions.
In short, I’m saying it might be worth a try. It just depends on the quality of the writers and the vision of the story.
And if you wanted the story to take a dark turn, Paul Giamatti could have arranged for a woman to sleep with Truman and then steal his semen so that the new Truman would actually be the original Truman’s genetic child, and that could be revealed towards the end of the movie for that one last twist of the knife as they come to the grand conclusion of whether you should escape Plato’s cave when you know the cave exists.
Yes a sequel would be such a crap idea, but I would love to see the concept explored more in depth. A good ol’ TV series would have worked, or a book
I think any attempt to continue that story would have been bullshit, like a continuation of Titanic. It came to a conclusion, let it be.
I know, i mean that i would have liked another media exploring the same concept. We have a story but not an in depth exploration of what it was like for Truman to grow up in a televised reality
The level of risk Hollywood is willing to take on today is very low due to streaming. There is more competition for people’s attention and money.
They would rather take an IP that they know is popular than to take a risk on something unknown.
Throwing to the Plan B ad read at the end was a wild choice
