Comment on Anon thinks about Truman
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 days agoAnd 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.
I don’t know 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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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