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The Truman Show: The Shooting Script
Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner in a made-for-TV paradise. This is the story of his escape.
Rarely has a first-time collaboration between a writer and director produced such a stunning result. In this book, both Niccol and Weir's lively talents and creative force come to light, as each contributes some highly original material to amplify the brilliant107-page shooting script, reproduced here in facsimile. Niccol has given us another version of The Truman Show, in photos and captions—in effect, our very own photo album. For his contribution, Peter Weir chose to let us in on the intricately detailed, often hilarious "backstory," which he wrote as part of his preparation, and eventually shared with the cast and crew during production. Also included are complete cast and crew credits.
Rarely has a first-time collaboration between a writer and director produced such a stunning result. In this book, both Niccol and Weir's lively talents and creative force come to light, as each contributes some highly original material to amplify the brilliant107-page shooting script, reproduced here in facsimile. Niccol has given us another version of The Truman Show, in photos and captions—in effect, our very own photo album. For his contribution, Peter Weir chose to let us in on the intricately detailed, often hilarious "backstory," which he wrote as part of his preparation, and eventually shared with the cast and crew during production. Also included are complete cast and crew credits.
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First published January 1, 1998
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Andrew Niccol
9 books14 followersNew Zealand-born screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol began his career in London, successfully directing TV commercials before moving to Los Angeles in order to make films "longer than 60 seconds." He interested high-powered producer Scott Rudin in his The Truman Show (1998) script, but Rudin was not willing to gamble on a rookie director, particularly when Jim Carrey came aboard, swelling the budget to about $60 million. Peter Weir helmed instead, bringing a complementary vision which lightened the material somewhat, and the clever satire, which followed a cheerful insurance man (Carrey) as he slowly realizes that all the people in his life are just actors in a TV show, opened to critical raves. Since the deal for "Truman" came together slowly, Niccol actually made his screenwriting and directing debut with Gattaca (1997), a superb, well-acted sci-fi movie that raised issues of genetic engineering in a totalitarian environment.
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July 6, 2016
«جهان چيست جز صحنه ى نمايش، و مردمان كيستند جز بازيگران آن؟»
شكسپير
از اگزيستانسياليستى ترين فيلم هاى هاليوودى:
مردى كه لحظه لحظه ى زندگى ش از قبل برنامه ريزى شده، همه ى خاطراتش، احساساتش، اهدافش، همه رو از همون لحظه ى تولد به صورت قالبى و بسته بندى شده از "ديگران" دريافت مى كنه؛ غرق در "ضرورت" ها شده، بى اون كه هيچ وقت "آزادى انتخاب" داشته باشه. و همه دست به دست هم دادن تا مانع بشن كه در اين روند ثابت تغييرى ايجاد كنه: همسرش، مادرش، بهترين رفيقش، پليس ها، تك تك افراد جامعه.
اما بعد، سر به "عصيان" مى ذاره، ديواره ى جهان از پيش ساخته شده ى ضرورت ها رو مى دره، تا وارد جهان "امكان ناضرور" بشه، جهانى كه خودش بايد اون رو بسازه.
از كتاب
كريستف: تنها فرق ترومن با ما اينه كه زندگى ما ضبط نميشه. اون با همون موانعى رو به رو ميشه كه ما هم ميشيم، اون نقش هايى رو بازى مى كنه كه ديگران براش در نظر گرفتن، درست مثل ما. اون هر وقت بخواد مى تونه بره، اگه واقعاً به اين نتيجه برسه كه مى خواد حقيقت رو كشف كنه، هيچ كس نمى تونه جلوش رو بگيره. اما ترومن خودش آرامش اين "زندان" رو ترجيح ميده.
sadly-i-only-watched-the-movie
May 19, 2019یکی از جالب ترین فیلم هایی بود که دیدم
فیلمی دیدنی با موضوعی خاص و جدید
فیلمی دیدنی با موضوعی خاص و جدید
October 9, 2014
میدونید بعد از این فیلم اولین فکری که به ذهنم رسید چی بود؟
این که شاید هر کدوم از ما یک ترومن باشیم و توی یک برنامه ی طرح ریزی شده هستیم
شاید ما هم باید فرار کنیمو راه خروجو پیدا کنیم
این که شاید هر کدوم از ما یک ترومن باشیم و توی یک برنامه ی طرح ریزی شده هستیم
شاید ما هم باید فرار کنیمو راه خروجو پیدا کنیم
August 26, 2018
چطور شخصی همچین موضوع خارق العاده ای به ذهنش میرسه آخه!؟
November 5, 2009
تو دبیرستان داشتم سر کلاس میخوندمش. وقتی تموم شد دلم میخواست جیغ بکشم اما نشد! هنوزم حسرت اون جیغ از سر حسرت تو دلم مونده!
December 15, 2018
Amazing!
GREAT!
must read/see!
GREAT!
must read/see!
August 11, 2010
It was nice to re-familiarize myself with the story of THE TRUMAN SHOW. I haven't seen the movie in along time, so reading the screenplay was almost like a new fresh take on it. I could really identify with the character at this point in my life, because just as he feels he is stuck in Seahaven, i feel like i'm stuck where i am. I want to go out there and explore the world and have an adventure just like Truman wanted. So yeah, it was really nice to experience that story again, but this time in a different art form.
March 30, 2019
فیلمش و البته صحبتهای آقای پناهیان در موردش رو توصیه میکنم ببینید
January 20, 2021
Creo que solo tiene valor si eres un fan fan fan de la película.
June 26, 2025
The Truman Show by Andrew Niccol – my other, video note on this is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/... where I have a few thousand other reviews
10 out of 10
The Truman Show offers viewers not just a great Show, but also the opportunity to look at various symbols, identify with the hero, observe various layers, and at a second (third or more) viewing, you notice another aspect that fits the world of today, or on the contrary might have changed, for better or worse
I remember when I was an adolescent – not that some strange feelings related to The Truman Show do not appear today, or was it yesterday – having the feeling that this world moves around me somehow, in a way expressed by Protagoras, the ancient philosopher who said ‘man is the measure of all things, of those that are, that they are, and of those that are not, that they are not’, something to that effect anyway…
Jim Carrey is phenomenal as Truman Burbank, an insurance salesman, allegedly, who has an ordinary life, just like most of us – those living in the west, or in this particular case, Eastern Europe, but still, when set against Sudan, where they have the biggest calamity of the present, on the cover of this week’s The Economist, we are in the ‘developed world’
He has a routine, which reminds me of Aristotle https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/... who said ‘we are what we do regularly, excellence is not an act, it is a habit’, close to the Talmud injunction Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny…’ attributed also to Lao Tzu apparently
This very ritual is one clue that something is wrong, at one point, Truman shows this to his wife - Meryl Burbank aka wonderful Laura Linney, who has to pretend to be an actress who pretends to be a wife, and more overwhelming still, the actress has to be rather pathetic at stages, furious, false, and so much more, in succession
In the car, he points out that in the next moment, a man with flowers will walk by, then a woman with her dog – or something else, I forgot what – and it is all part of a pattern, they go around the block and come back, this is good detective work, for indeed, we see with the hero that there is something weird going on
Weird is now associated with Orange Jesus aka Felon, who has the bigger chance to win the elections on November 4, and become, again, the most powerful man in the world, still an incredible scenario for yours truly, a vicious, disgusting, lying, convicted of fraud, and other felonies individual is about to climb on top of the world…
And for the second time, as if more than seventy million people in the once ‘greatest democracy in the world’ could not see elemental distinctions between good and bad, many deeply religious will vote for Satan - if you believe in that, well, he is as close to Beelzebub as one can get, what wit breaking all the ten commandments and more…
Truman wants to leave this place where he has lived all his life – which, spoiler alert, is the set of the ultimate reality show, a dystopian world- and travel to Fiji, only he is trapped, the travel agency says he has to wait for a month, as he climbs aboard a bus for Chicago, the driver finds the vehicle is defective and passengers must descend
He takes his Ford car, and Meryl, and he tries to drive out of the town, even crossing the river – in order to have him well placed in their Show, which has an immense planetary audience, they have instilled this fear of water, when his alleged father had drowned, all is fake there, parents, spouse, friend, they are all actors
Only once out of the town, they encounter emergency services, for the atomic plant nearby has had an accident – just a measure to stop the main protagonist in the lucrative media program, another false event – and even if the hero walks out, then runs for freedom, they overpower him, and he is back in his old place
His supposed best friend, yet another actor, Marlon tries to soothe the disappointed Truman, and says ‘look, if all this were false, then I would be part of it, your best buddy would be lying too’, words close to what he said I guess, and indeed, he was a liar, paid to do a job which for Meryl becomes too much in one scene
The protagonist is more an more convinced of the lie he lives in – which brings to mind a character from https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/... who looks at the world and says this is Maya aka an illusion – and has a confrontation with his spouse and she has a breakdown
After she had just made some publicity to some coffee, to the puzzlement of her husband (what are you talking about) Meryl is not capable to take it anymore – like the man from Network, mad as hell and could not take it anymore – and she shouts at the camera ‘why don’t you do something’, there are seven thousand cameras for The Truman Show
Ed Haris is magnificent in the role of Christof, the Grand Wizard aka God of the Show, he is the one who came with the script, the idea, manages everything, when the music starts, what the actors need to say to Truman, whom he had taken when he was born, the first to be out in the world live, on television, and then kept him in this arena, cuddled to some extent, protected, but without freedom, something we need to ponder, think about for ourselves…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
10 out of 10
The Truman Show offers viewers not just a great Show, but also the opportunity to look at various symbols, identify with the hero, observe various layers, and at a second (third or more) viewing, you notice another aspect that fits the world of today, or on the contrary might have changed, for better or worse
I remember when I was an adolescent – not that some strange feelings related to The Truman Show do not appear today, or was it yesterday – having the feeling that this world moves around me somehow, in a way expressed by Protagoras, the ancient philosopher who said ‘man is the measure of all things, of those that are, that they are, and of those that are not, that they are not’, something to that effect anyway…
Jim Carrey is phenomenal as Truman Burbank, an insurance salesman, allegedly, who has an ordinary life, just like most of us – those living in the west, or in this particular case, Eastern Europe, but still, when set against Sudan, where they have the biggest calamity of the present, on the cover of this week’s The Economist, we are in the ‘developed world’
He has a routine, which reminds me of Aristotle https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/... who said ‘we are what we do regularly, excellence is not an act, it is a habit’, close to the Talmud injunction Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny…’ attributed also to Lao Tzu apparently
This very ritual is one clue that something is wrong, at one point, Truman shows this to his wife - Meryl Burbank aka wonderful Laura Linney, who has to pretend to be an actress who pretends to be a wife, and more overwhelming still, the actress has to be rather pathetic at stages, furious, false, and so much more, in succession
In the car, he points out that in the next moment, a man with flowers will walk by, then a woman with her dog – or something else, I forgot what – and it is all part of a pattern, they go around the block and come back, this is good detective work, for indeed, we see with the hero that there is something weird going on
Weird is now associated with Orange Jesus aka Felon, who has the bigger chance to win the elections on November 4, and become, again, the most powerful man in the world, still an incredible scenario for yours truly, a vicious, disgusting, lying, convicted of fraud, and other felonies individual is about to climb on top of the world…
And for the second time, as if more than seventy million people in the once ‘greatest democracy in the world’ could not see elemental distinctions between good and bad, many deeply religious will vote for Satan - if you believe in that, well, he is as close to Beelzebub as one can get, what wit breaking all the ten commandments and more…
Truman wants to leave this place where he has lived all his life – which, spoiler alert, is the set of the ultimate reality show, a dystopian world- and travel to Fiji, only he is trapped, the travel agency says he has to wait for a month, as he climbs aboard a bus for Chicago, the driver finds the vehicle is defective and passengers must descend
He takes his Ford car, and Meryl, and he tries to drive out of the town, even crossing the river – in order to have him well placed in their Show, which has an immense planetary audience, they have instilled this fear of water, when his alleged father had drowned, all is fake there, parents, spouse, friend, they are all actors
Only once out of the town, they encounter emergency services, for the atomic plant nearby has had an accident – just a measure to stop the main protagonist in the lucrative media program, another false event – and even if the hero walks out, then runs for freedom, they overpower him, and he is back in his old place
His supposed best friend, yet another actor, Marlon tries to soothe the disappointed Truman, and says ‘look, if all this were false, then I would be part of it, your best buddy would be lying too’, words close to what he said I guess, and indeed, he was a liar, paid to do a job which for Meryl becomes too much in one scene
The protagonist is more an more convinced of the lie he lives in – which brings to mind a character from https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/... who looks at the world and says this is Maya aka an illusion – and has a confrontation with his spouse and she has a breakdown
After she had just made some publicity to some coffee, to the puzzlement of her husband (what are you talking about) Meryl is not capable to take it anymore – like the man from Network, mad as hell and could not take it anymore – and she shouts at the camera ‘why don’t you do something’, there are seven thousand cameras for The Truman Show
Ed Haris is magnificent in the role of Christof, the Grand Wizard aka God of the Show, he is the one who came with the script, the idea, manages everything, when the music starts, what the actors need to say to Truman, whom he had taken when he was born, the first to be out in the world live, on television, and then kept him in this arena, cuddled to some extent, protected, but without freedom, something we need to ponder, think about for ourselves…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
October 30, 2022
You don’t understand how much I wish this was a book. So trippy and scary I didn’t stop thinking about it for days
July 1, 2025
نمایش ترومن (The Truman Show) ساختهٔ پیتر ویر، یکی از آن فیلمهاییست که از یک ایدهٔ بکر آغاز میکند و آرامآرام تبدیل میشود به یک تمثیل عمیق، شاعرانه، و در عین حال تکاندهنده از وضعیت انسان معاصر. فیلمیست دربارهٔ تماشا، کنترل، وانمودن... اما در بطن همهٔ اینها، داستانیست دربارهٔ بیداری. بیداری از رؤیایی که هرگز انتخابش نکردهای.
ترومن بربنک (جیم کری)، مردیست ساده و خوشقلب که در شهری آرام زندگی میکند. اما از همان لحظهٔ نخست، تماشاگر میداند او در یک نمایش ساختگی عظیم به دام افتاده: شهری شبیه بهشت، اما کاملاً مصنوعی؛ مردمی ظاهراً مهربان، اما در اصل بازیگرانی حرفهای. ترومن تنها کسیست که حقیقت را نمیداند. و همین، قلب تراژیک داستان را شکل میدهد: وقتی کل جهان، برای تو صحنهایست، چگونه میتوانی به خودت برسی؟
فیلم، گرچه به ظاهر یک درام فانتزیست، اما در لایههای زیرینش نقدی تند و درخشان به فرهنگ رسانهای، نظارت، و مصرفگرایی دارد. شخصیت کریستوف (با بازی اد هریس) خالق و کارگردان این جهان مصنوعیست؛ کسی که خود را بهنوعی پدر، خالق، و خدا میداند. او ترومن را "محفوظ" نگه میدارد از خطرهای جهان، اما در واقع او را زندانی کرده، در قفسی بیمرز و بیدیواره. نگاه کریستوف، نگاه دوربینهای بیشمار است؛ نظارتی آرام و بیوقفه، که نه با خشونت، بلکه با «محبت» و «امنیت» عمل میکند. و این، دقیقاً شباهت عجیبی به دنیای واقعی ما دارد؛ دنیایی که در آن، سلطه نه با زور، بلکه با نمایش اعمال میشود.
جیم کری در یکی از متفاوتترین و موفقترین نقشآفرینیهایش، چهرهای انسانی و ملموس به ترومن میبخشد. ترکیبی از طنز، خلوص، و تدریجیترین نوع بیداری. لحظهبهلحظه، او نشانههایی میبیند که جهانش ترک برمیدارد: افتادن نورافکن از آسمان، بازیگران فراموشکار، تکرارهای بیپایان روزمرگی. اینها سیگنالهای بیداریاند. و فیلم، باظرافت، مخاطب را بهجای قضاوت ترومن، با او همدل میکند. ما نیز با هر لحظه، بیشتر حس میکنیم در جهانی جعلی زندگی میکنیم، جهانی پر از روایتهای ازپیشساخته، انتخابهای دروغین، و امنیتهایی که آزادی را بلعیدهاند.
و نقطهٔ اوج فیلم – برخورد ترومن با دیوارهٔ آسمان و خروج از در – نه فقط پایان یک داستان، بلکه استعارهایست از انسانی که خود را مییابد، حتی اگر به قیمت تمام چیزهایی باشد که تا امروز حقیقت میپنداشته. شاید این یکی از فلسفیترین پایانهاییست که هالیوود به خود دیده. ترومن در را باز میکند، بیآنکه بداند بیرون چه در انتظارش است. اما انتخاب میکند. و همین، او را آزاد میکند.
فیلم در سنت آثاری چون «1984» و «ماتریکس» ایستاده، اما بهجای خشونت یا تکنولوژی، با لطافت، طنز و حس صمیمی زندگی روزمره، نقد خود را پیش میبرد.
ترومن بربنک (جیم کری)، مردیست ساده و خوشقلب که در شهری آرام زندگی میکند. اما از همان لحظهٔ نخست، تماشاگر میداند او در یک نمایش ساختگی عظیم به دام افتاده: شهری شبیه بهشت، اما کاملاً مصنوعی؛ مردمی ظاهراً مهربان، اما در اصل بازیگرانی حرفهای. ترومن تنها کسیست که حقیقت را نمیداند. و همین، قلب تراژیک داستان را شکل میدهد: وقتی کل جهان، برای تو صحنهایست، چگونه میتوانی به خودت برسی؟
فیلم، گرچه به ظاهر یک درام فانتزیست، اما در لایههای زیرینش نقدی تند و درخشان به فرهنگ رسانهای، نظارت، و مصرفگرایی دارد. شخصیت کریستوف (با بازی اد هریس) خالق و کارگردان این جهان مصنوعیست؛ کسی که خود را بهنوعی پدر، خالق، و خدا میداند. او ترومن را "محفوظ" نگه میدارد از خطرهای جهان، اما در واقع او را زندانی کرده، در قفسی بیمرز و بیدیواره. نگاه کریستوف، نگاه دوربینهای بیشمار است؛ نظارتی آرام و بیوقفه، که نه با خشونت، بلکه با «محبت» و «امنیت» عمل میکند. و این، دقیقاً شباهت عجیبی به دنیای واقعی ما دارد؛ دنیایی که در آن، سلطه نه با زور، بلکه با نمایش اعمال میشود.
جیم کری در یکی از متفاوتترین و موفقترین نقشآفرینیهایش، چهرهای انسانی و ملموس به ترومن میبخشد. ترکیبی از طنز، خلوص، و تدریجیترین نوع بیداری. لحظهبهلحظه، او نشانههایی میبیند که جهانش ترک برمیدارد: افتادن نورافکن از آسمان، بازیگران فراموشکار، تکرارهای بیپایان روزمرگی. اینها سیگنالهای بیداریاند. و فیلم، باظرافت، مخاطب را بهجای قضاوت ترومن، با او همدل میکند. ما نیز با هر لحظه، بیشتر حس میکنیم در جهانی جعلی زندگی میکنیم، جهانی پر از روایتهای ازپیشساخته، انتخابهای دروغین، و امنیتهایی که آزادی را بلعیدهاند.
و نقطهٔ اوج فیلم – برخورد ترومن با دیوارهٔ آسمان و خروج از در – نه فقط پایان یک داستان، بلکه استعارهایست از انسانی که خود را مییابد، حتی اگر به قیمت تمام چیزهایی باشد که تا امروز حقیقت میپنداشته. شاید این یکی از فلسفیترین پایانهاییست که هالیوود به خود دیده. ترومن در را باز میکند، بیآنکه بداند بیرون چه در انتظارش است. اما انتخاب میکند. و همین، او را آزاد میکند.
فیلم در سنت آثاری چون «1984» و «ماتریکس» ایستاده، اما بهجای خشونت یا تکنولوژی، با لطافت، طنز و حس صمیمی زندگی روزمره، نقد خود را پیش میبرد.
April 25, 2023
El show de Truman es una película entretenida sobre Truman Burbank, quien poco a poco sospecha que su vida es protagonizada por actores y transmitida para el consumo de millones de personas mundialmente. Además de ser una comedia dramática, es un excelente mensaje y un ejemplo de que para salir de la "caverna" no se necesita fuerza física, sino mental. A veces, aceptamos la realidad tal y como nos la presentan, sin cuestionar que quizás esta no es del todo cierta o sincera. Recomiendo esta película para todo público.
May 24, 2021
What I liked best was Weir's "A Short History of The Truman Show" which provided backstory to help actors better understand the world of the show and Niccol's "photo album" which augmented that backstory.
What I disliked most was Niccol's overuse and misuse of adverbs such as "suddenly" and "abruptly".
What I disliked most was Niccol's overuse and misuse of adverbs such as "suddenly" and "abruptly".
December 22, 2020
Fantastic screenplay. I’ve always been a massive fan of the film and the whole concept of the this. There are a few extra bits in the screenplay not featured in the film which made it even more exciting and I’m quite sad they didn’t feature. Recommend it if you enjoyed The Truman Show
April 17, 2022
A television producer films a boy's life from the time he is a baby. The entire town he lives in is aware that this is a tv show, all except Truman. As he tries to escape the island he is stopped by insecurities. Will he figure it out? will he go on to find a real life?
March 3, 2024
3.5 - Solid screenplay. The movie is really, word by word, exactly the same. Apparently, most of the standards of writing screenplays have changed, since this one kinda brushes off certain things (the "we hear", "we see", etc.), but heck, do what you want as long as it WORKS.
July 5, 2024
Es uno de esos pocos ghuiones que nos traen una historia completamente nueva sobre lla mesa, pues la gran mayoria reutilizan las anteriores con cambios de escenarios y personajes para aparentar originalidad.
August 6, 2025
i read a very early version of the film, which was EXTREMELY different from the final one that we see on our screens! much darker. i see why they changed what they did, but it was very interesting to see how it started out.
December 15, 2025
An extremely thoughtful friend gifted this to me before I even knew it existed, and I AM OBSESSED, I love it so much. My favorite movie, this is such a cool look behind the scenes at the making of it and the script itself.
December 17, 2017
فیلمش رو دیدم و عالیه و ترسناک شاید
February 16, 2019
Is it real?
Another version of matrix!
Another version of matrix!
February 2, 2020
A few additional scenes made this a worthwhile read. And, of course, it's a fantastic script.
February 13, 2021
solipsism:
a bug in the system?
(a glitch in the matrix)
or
future
sex
love
sounds
uh ?
# f r e e b r I t n e y
*truman
that’s our hero shot
a bug in the system?
(a glitch in the matrix)
or
future
sex
love
sounds
uh ?
# f r e e b r I t n e y
*truman
that’s our hero shot
November 13, 2021
Masterfully done.
December 12, 2022
War lowkey nice
November 18, 2016
Seamos sinceros: si hay un libro que DEBE ser leído en formato guión, sin duda alguna es El Show de Truman. Si me hubieran vendido esta historia escrita como guión sin que se hubiera llevado jamás al cine ni al teatro, aún así me habría parecido la forma más inteligente de presentarlo.
Quien haya visto la película ya conoce la historia. Aún así, debo decir que el guión la presenta de una manera mucho más elegante, más inteligente: nos permite descubrir el misterio al mismo tiempo que el protagonista, y no desde el minuto uno. Esto nos da una ventaja considerable: nos coloca en la piel de uno de los personajes. Nos hace sentirnos acompañados durante todo el viaje.
Dicho esto, a medida que la historia avanza sí que se nos va presentando lo que hay más allá de la luna. Y es un mundo diferente, muy rico, ácido y amargo a partes iguales, con comentarios sobre lo que está ocurriendo que nos sirven para convertir ese mundo idílico, perfecto aunque ligeramente quebradizo, en una visión cruda y descarnada de lo que haríamos con nuestros semejantes por nuestro propio beneficio. Intento evitar las comparaciones con la película, pero para quienes ya la hayáis visto: en el guión es mucho más devastador.
Todo esto sólo puede conducirnos hacia un final al que no le queda más remedio que exponer las reglas del juego y desafiar al lector: ¿nos atreveremos a romperlas, o dejaremos que el maestro de ceremonias nos cuente el final que siempre ha querido revelarnos? Hay quien dice que este final se queda corto, que te deja con unas ganas desesperadas de saber más. Si queréis saber mi opinión, creo que es el final perfecto para esta historia. Claro que falta saber más, pero ¿de verdad necesitamos saberlo? ¿De verdad QUEREMOS saberlo? Y lo más importante: ¿Se merece Truman que lo sepamos?
Os dejo con esa reflexión. Si habéis visto la película, disfrutaréis mucho más el guión. Si no la habéis visto, elegid una de las dos versiones (el guión o la película) y empezad por ahí, pero os recomiendo muy encarecidamente que no ignoréis la otra versión. Merece la pena.
Quien haya visto la película ya conoce la historia. Aún así, debo decir que el guión la presenta de una manera mucho más elegante, más inteligente: nos permite descubrir el misterio al mismo tiempo que el protagonista, y no desde el minuto uno. Esto nos da una ventaja considerable: nos coloca en la piel de uno de los personajes. Nos hace sentirnos acompañados durante todo el viaje.
Dicho esto, a medida que la historia avanza sí que se nos va presentando lo que hay más allá de la luna. Y es un mundo diferente, muy rico, ácido y amargo a partes iguales, con comentarios sobre lo que está ocurriendo que nos sirven para convertir ese mundo idílico, perfecto aunque ligeramente quebradizo, en una visión cruda y descarnada de lo que haríamos con nuestros semejantes por nuestro propio beneficio. Intento evitar las comparaciones con la película, pero para quienes ya la hayáis visto: en el guión es mucho más devastador.
Todo esto sólo puede conducirnos hacia un final al que no le queda más remedio que exponer las reglas del juego y desafiar al lector: ¿nos atreveremos a romperlas, o dejaremos que el maestro de ceremonias nos cuente el final que siempre ha querido revelarnos? Hay quien dice que este final se queda corto, que te deja con unas ganas desesperadas de saber más. Si queréis saber mi opinión, creo que es el final perfecto para esta historia. Claro que falta saber más, pero ¿de verdad necesitamos saberlo? ¿De verdad QUEREMOS saberlo? Y lo más importante: ¿Se merece Truman que lo sepamos?
Os dejo con esa reflexión. Si habéis visto la película, disfrutaréis mucho más el guión. Si no la habéis visto, elegid una de las dos versiones (el guión o la película) y empezad por ahí, pero os recomiendo muy encarecidamente que no ignoréis la otra versión. Merece la pena.
August 14, 2022
A man's life is being broadcasted for all to see
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