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The Truman Show.

  • 21-08-2013 11:21pm
    #1
    ardle1
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    Thought I'd throw this out there, would anyone like to see another 'The Truman Show' type of movie. I personaly would love to see one. Obviously based on the original,but not necessarily carbon copied.


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  • #2
    FortuneChip
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    I'd much rather watch The Truman Show to be honest.
    I don't see how a remake could add anything to it.
    It was a satirical take on television, and people's obsession with reality TV.
    Not much has changed outside the movie since it's release in that regard, so it's very much as relevant as it was.
    There's no need to add a new skin over the basic premise, I'd happily watch the movie as is.

    If you're looking for a movie with a similar theme, "Simone" could take your fancy. It's a lesser movie, but it does push the satirical side further than The Truman Show did, while still offering some entertainment.


  • #3
    ardle1
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    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I'd much rather watch The Truman Show to be honest.
    I don't see how a remake could add anything to it.
    It was a satirical take on television, and people's obsession with reality TV.
    Not much has changed outside the movie since it's release in that regard, so it's very much as relevant as it was.
    There's no need to add a new skin over the basic premise, I'd happily watch the movie as is.

    If you're looking for a movie with a similar theme, "Simone" could take your fancy. It's a lesser movie, but it does push the satirical side further than The Truman Show did, while still offering some entertainment.

    It was a satirical take on television, and people's obsession with reality TV, I agree with what your saying, but wouldn't it be great if it was written from a paranoid schizophrenic point of view, if you see where I'm coming from!


  • #4
    Mickeroo
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    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I'd much rather watch The Truman Show to be honest.
    I don't see how a remake could add anything to it.
    It was a satirical take on television, and people's obsession with reality TV.
    Not much has changed outside the movie since it's release in that regard, so it's very much as relevant as it was.
    There's no need to add a new skin over the basic premise, I'd happily watch the movie as is.

    If you're looking for a movie with a similar theme, "Simone" could take your fancy. It's a lesser movie, but it does push the satirical side further than The Truman Show did, while still offering some entertainment.

    I thought it predates the reality tv explosion more or less? Seems more relevant now than it did when it first came out.

    Carrey's best performance after Eternal Sunshine imo. Remake would be pointless.


  • #5
    ardle1
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    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I thought it predates the reality tv explosion more or less? Seems more relevant now than it did when it first came out.

    Carrey's best performance after Eternal Sunshine imo. Remake would be pointless.

    No No not a remake, but something along those lines, it could be very bleak
    or hilariously funny!


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    ardle1 wrote: »
    It was a satirical take on television, and people's obsession with reality TV, I agree with what your saying, but wouldn't it be great if it was written from a paranoid schizophrenic point of view, if you see where I'm coming from!

    Maybe it would be worth you checking out Charlie Kauffman's Synecdoche, New York, maybe i should too as it's been far too long. Not based around television but a play, and possibly the most elaborate ever presented on screen. It bears quite a different tone than The Truman Show, but is a strong movie about blurring the lines of reality and fiction, and the consequences of doing so. Phiilip Seymour Hoffman is the lead in it and for me it was a intriguing and challenging watch.


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  • #7
    Mickeroo
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    ardle1 wrote: »
    No No not a remake, but something along those lines, it could be very bleak
    or hilariously funny!

    I'm not sure what you're getting at to be honest. You want a satire of reality TV but have it different in toane to the truman show? One that's either all out comedy or else really bleak? And also has no relation to the truman show apart from the themes it would cover?


  • #8
    krudler
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    watch EDtv, it's about someone being made a reality tv star but is more of a straight comedy than The Truman Show is.


  • #9
    roanoke
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    google : The Twilight Zone: Special Service


  • #10
    GorillaRising
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    We're all Truman. Google is Ed Harris and the companies that are selling to us are the audience. :D


  • #11
    Birneybau
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    Nah.

    It's pretty perfect, leave it alone, don't sully it.


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  • #12
    miralize
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    I had to do it for the Leaving Cert, ruined the film for me.


  • #13
    Nerdkiller1991
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    miralize wrote: »
    I had to do it for the Leaving Cert, ruined the film for me.
    Hmmm...did you go to St. Flannans? Because we too had to watch the movie and discuss about it for English.


  • #14
    miralize
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    Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »
    Hmmm...did you go to St. Flannans? Because we too had to watch the movie and discuss about it for English.

    No, its a part of the Lc Curriculum (for 2008 at least)


  • #15
    Nerdkiller1991
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    miralize wrote: »
    No, its a part of the Lc Curriculum (for 2008 at least)
    Ahhh. I see. Thought you might have, seeing how close you are to it.


  • #16
    Femme_Fatale
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    Wow, studying The Truman Show for the LC - sweet. I didn't study any movie for the LC. /grouch

    One of my fave films ever; director is one of the best there is IMO.

    Isn't Pleasantville along similar lines?


  • #17
    InchicoreDude
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Wow, studying The Truman Show for the LC - sweet. I didn't study any movie for the LC. /grouch

    One of my fave films ever; director is one of the best there is IMO.

    Isn't Pleasantville along similar lines?

    I had to watch it a lot in German for my leaving cert and didnt see it English until a few years later. Never appreciated as much as I should have at the time (difficult when you only understand 1 in every 10 words!).

    did My Left Foot for English in the leaving.


  • #18
    WoollyRedHat
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Wow, studying The Truman Show for the LC - sweet. I didn't study any movie for the LC. /grouch

    One of my fave films ever; director is one of the best there is IMO.

    Isn't Pleasantville along similar lines?

    Yeah, which is an even better film, a real gem.


  • #19
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    Reality TV shows have changed though than they were when the Truman Show came out. For a better and more satirical take on the whole Big Brother/reality TV show thing, then watch Dead Set.

    I'd love a bleak/horror movie based around the likes of Jersey Shore. Only where each character dies.


  • #20
    miralize
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Reality TV shows have changed though than they were when the Truman Show came out. For a better and more satirical take on the whole Big Brother/reality TV show thing, then watch Dead Set.

    I'd love a bleak/horror movie based around the likes of Jersey Shore. Only where each character dies.

    All at once. And it last 5 minutes.


  • #21
    Sad Professor
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    Films really shouldn't be part of the English curriculum. English teachers just don't understand cinema and are incapable of analysing films aside from their content.


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  • #22
    WoollyRedHat
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Films really shouldn't be part of the English curriculum. English teachers just don't understand cinema and are incapable of analysing films aside from their content.

    It is often done as part of Cultural context or literally something, where there is a question on a play, a book and a film, with comparison requested.

    But I agree.


  • #23
    CastorTroy
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    Series 7: The Contenders
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251031/

    or Live!
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810945/

    are 2 movies that take reality tv to an extreme


  • #24
    Nervous Wreck
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    Add zombies and you've got Charlie Brooker's Dead Set.


  • #25
    briany
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    Truman Show is a much nicer film than could be realistically made today because we're all so jaded with reality TV that for a mockery of it now is much more likely to be a cynical indictment of public obsession and how far producers are willing to go to produce ratings ala Series 7 : The Contenders. I realise that The Truman Show is mocking those things as well but it's coming from a really warm, innocent place whereas now it's bound to feature your archetypal 'sneering tosser' and be generally a lot colder.

    Maybe Carrey's best film overall. One of those ones that's just going to be better remembered with each year.


  • #26
    johnny_ultimate
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    I always found it vaguely ironic that we studied Il Postino for English in the Leaving Cert. I do think film needs to be on the curriculum somewhere - preferably a dedicated subject, or some sort of more general media studies with a focus on aesthetics and practice not just 'themes' and 'cultural context'. Alas, it has to do as an optional afterthought in English given the generalised nature of our education system.

    Oh, and The Truman Show is great.


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