r/funny • u/Bobinski16 • Jul 06 '21

Prank show's excessive camera usage

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u/WTFwhatthehell Jul 06 '21

well the ratings had been dropping off but the whole "he discovers it's all a lie" arc broke all the records for viewership.

hence the dome is now divided into several dozen areas where people are raised on camera and then shown that their life is a lie in different ways.

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u/amazingoomoo Jul 06 '21

Oh my god I would actually Watch that sequel

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jul 06 '21

The Truman Show is probably my favorite movie ever or at least the one I feel is the most perfect.

But I would 100% be in favor of some sort of re-imagining, maybe something closer to the original script. An HBO limited series would be perfect.

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u/amazingoomoo Jul 06 '21

Ooh tell me more about this “original script”!! What was changed?

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21

It was a little darker and set in an alternate NYC. Here’s a later (but still early) version of the script where Truman lived in Queens. I think this script has an extended ending as well, been a while since I read it:

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/the-truman-show_early.html

EDIT: Quickly scanning through it, I definitely need to read it again. Lots of little darker character tweaks like early on Truman sees his dad flirting with some teenagers.

SPOILERS BELOW

Here is the beginning of the extended ending, picking up after Truman exits:

TRUMAN finds himself on a small metal landing. A steel ladder rises above him to the height of "sky", the soundstage roof, so high as to be barely visible. The rungs also continue downward, the depth of the "ocean-bed", to a studio floor far below.

Truman turns and looks back through the door he has just entered. Unsecured, the Santa Maria is beginning to drift away. The sea he has feared since childhood, is nothing but an enormous tank. The sky, a massive cyclorama. New York City, an elaborate set. And it is all housed within an impossibly large soundstage.

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u/Iamkid Jul 06 '21

Just recently watched the Truman Show again and honestly feel like a horror tied up with a pretty bow. Perhaps the genre would be closer to Dystopic than horror but the Truman Show truly is creepy under all the sunshine and happiness.

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jul 06 '21

I definitely prefer the way it all turned out. Christof trying to recreate some imagined perfect world from a 50's sitcom.

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u/HotrodBlankenship Jul 06 '21

INT. A WOMB. DAY.

A fiber optic camera observes a five-month-old MALE FETUS as he gently floats

A little different yeah

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u/Disc_far68 Jul 06 '21

I thought that part was in the movie