Comment on Anon thinks about Truman

• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just like this new double headed toilet brush, the Goug-O-Matic Pro 3000 Plus fits naturally into the male urethra. Look how naturally it slides in and latches on, allowing for one to relieve one’s bladder and clean around the house!

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      • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I literally choked reading this. S tier content sir/ma’am

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What I’m saying is that the show would have evolved to do more ads.

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      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Trueman’s jail is a converted fsctory, we can put ads on the wall from when it was a factory.”

        – Truman Show Producers

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    • FrChazzz@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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• cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Shark repellent.

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    • needanke@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Easy: breakout attempt, needs to cross shark-guarded moat around the walls.

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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