20 Things You Didn't Know About The Truman Show
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The first time I watched The Truman Show I laughed. The second time I realized it was a horror movie.
I cry at the end every single time.
It pretty much a psych horror pretending to dark comedy. It pretty much a paranoid schizophrenic worst nightmare as a movie.
how is it a horror
@@olivia.a5x Horror movie might be pushing it a bit, but it is psych thriller, as it's horrifying to know that your life isn't real. Truman is put on display and all the people in his life are actors. His friends are actors, his wife is an actor and nothing is true or reliable. The title is a bit ironic then, The Truman Show, but nothing is really true.
and the third time you watched you were awake to the truth hidden in the matrix system world
Imagine the lawsuit Truman would win if he sued the production company.
Since he was owned by the company, I'm not sure if he could win
They went broke when he escaped😁😁
Imagine thinking a citizen could win a lawsuit against a giant corporation
@@christopherbenoit5585 A citizen? No. The single most well known household name in his universes story? I think he'd still always be famous afterwards.
Maybe, but OmniCam (the corporation) could massively outspend him in the litigation. Truman would start his outside-the-dome life pretty poor, especially compared to a massive media conglomerate.
#8 - it's even worse for Truman's chronological contemporaries, since a fair amount of them were cast while still being newborns. His "best friend", for example, has literally no life outside of the show, and he's likely not the only one.
Yeah, that's what I always thought about as well. At least Truman is living the life he knows, even if it's fake. To him it's real. But Marlon has had no choice in playing along his whole life.
I wouldn’t say it’s worse for them, since they actually know they’re in a show and can apparently leave at any time, but yeah it’s pretty bad.
I adore this movie, and it proved that Jim Carrey could carry a dramatic lead performance!
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind confirmed it.
Agreed!!
Ironically, the Mask did too, during the “Stanley Ipkiss” scenes, but the Truman Show did nothing to distract from the fact, and it was easier to pick up on.
Cable guy but nevermind
The Majestic
I grew up in the town where that movie was filmed, Seagrove Bch, FL. Seaside to be exact. Another fun fact the building where Truman’s workplace was was turned into an arcade after filming was done
I'm from destin.
Wait how far is that from orlando??Orlando??? I would absolutely love to go see the area
@@nolan1913 where?
JIMMY Stewart and LIONEL Barrymore- co-stars of It's a Wonderful Life... Although there were, of course, other actors with the Barrymore name other than Drew.
This is when I stopped listening to the video. I'm a HUGE Star Trek nerd, but it's pretty obvious with Lancaster, Bogart, Barrymore, etc that "Patrick Stewart" does not belong in a list of golden age stars...
yeah I'm disappointed with them on that. especially drew Barrymore... there's no way they were referencing her as 1998 was the year she really made her comeback to Hollywood with 3 movies released that year
I thought it was Michael Barrymore
Thank you for this! I was enraged that this muppet didn’t know it was Jimmy Stewart lol
Yeah, hilariously wrong twice in one sentence. Skip.
I think the main message of the show is that we find true freedom by facing and overcoming our worst fears.
I’ve spent half the summers of my childhood at Seaside and I didn’t know that the Truman show was filmed there until this very moment. Fucking WHAT?!
That is pretty wild. That's almost like if I just realized that Michael Jordan played for the Tarheels in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (That's right where I used to spend my summers as a kid). But I did know. I didn't realize what a big deal the Durham Bulls were in the movie though.
You can tell a lot about the generation that What Culture represents when they assume that Stewart Street was named after Patrick Stewart and not the far likelier Jimmy Stewart.
And that Barrymore refers to Drew and not her grandfather John.
I was just thinking those seemed like odd choices for street names, but that makes a lot more sense.
When the children don't do their homework.
THANK YOU!
Agreed. Patrick Stewart was primarily a television actor when the movie came out. The street is definitely named after Jimmy.
The characters' names as well--Marlon (Brando), Meryl (Streep), Angela (Lansbury), Lauren Garland (Bacall/Judy).
'You are now leaving Sea Haven. Are you sure that's a good idea?"--nice little homage to the Wizard of Oz 😃
I so love this film. It's amazing and the score by Philip Glass (who cameos, btw) is brilliant.
That i didn’t know! What scene is he in?
@@courtney-ray towards the end when the music is calming after "the" boat scene, he is one of the musicians playing.
I love the score. It fits the film perfectly
Just playing Devil’s advocate, but wouldn’t it make more sense that the street names “Stewart” and “Barrymore” we’re named after James and John rather than Patrick and Drew? Considering the Burt Lancaster and Orson Welles homages, that is.
Yes, 100%
Lionel Barrymore and his costar James Stewart?
I always thought the premise was based on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." He is trapped in a physical cave or sorts (a huge TV set) and learns that everything he ever knew is fake and a lie. The movie even ends with him exiting "the cave" to truth and reality.
Yep, same plot as the matrix
Hardly. Truman does not mount an armed assault on the OmniCam control room, there is no "Chosen One" trope, Truman is the sole person being kept in the dark about the nature of Seahaven Island and his life in it, and the film makes a point of showing how Christof does in fact love Truman, albeit in a warped and morally objectionable manner. The agents in the Matrix don't and can't love anyone.
@@georgenewman4464 however there IS the scene when he leaps into the chest of Ed Harris, so... different parts apply differently well.
Plato's work more likely influenced 'The Village' than 'The Matrix', but 'The Truman Show' is more about singular exploitation than mass indoctrination.
I agree... Many also pointed the similarities with this movie and The Matrix....
Saying Patrick Stewart and Drew Barrymore kind of undercuts your believability.
LOL, I just left a comment going into more detail. But I agree. _Credibility_ is the key word here. Ouch. 🤦🏼♂️
Yeah! Everybody knows it's Kristen Stewart! 🤪
@@cappyjones _D'oh!_ Of course! 🤣
Absolutely. Those are mind-blowing errors.
@@georgenewman4464 so I'm a little slow, what makes them errors?
one of my favorite films, the whole thing is so sad and surreal that even the comedic moments feel off, which surely was intentional. When he does his 'Jim Carrey' over the top stuff it is more scary or worrying than funny
I always think about how dark it really is when you look at the best friend character and realize he's only playing a role and doesn't care about Truman at all
sad and fascinating movie and all the acting is incredible
I think he did care about Truman. He is doing a job but I think he cared about him
@4:44 - That deleted scene is indeed spooky, but just about everything the audience could have learned from it remains in the theatrical release. Christof's plan to get an on-air conception and birth, followed by a Truman Jr., are totally obvious; Christof admits half of it (including Meryl/Hannah Gill leaving the show) in his interview with Mike Michaelson (Harry Shearer). Marlon/Louis Coltrane's hidden indifference toward Truman is brutally established in the scene on the unfinished bridge. The scene was properly cut.
I always thought Marlon's tone in that scene is more like concerning about Truman's future. (As a real friend kind of relationship and emotion. And asked in a kind sarcasm way to hide his concern.)
@@mhikari92 yeah. and the other deleted scene where he lets Truman go further proves that he started to genuinely care.
@@konstellashon1364 No, it doesn't-because it's deleted. It's not in the movie. We are never shown Coltrane actually caring about Truman in the slightest.
They constructed Seahaven from scratch so the real question is why did they put a travel agent office in the town at all?!
It speaks volumes about the real art of cinema, when there are those "blink and you miss it" details, like the reflexes on the moon and the newspaper date.
They don't need to be there, but there they are. That is dedication to art.
Nowadays those @55h0les at most studios can not even care about mending the holes at the main plot that can ruin the whole movie if you pay any attention to the story.
Heck, we can acttually be gratefull if there is a plot at all...
Lie.
Most of the things on the list you would know by simply watching the film, they are not hidden, they are part of the plot
Most of the town of Sea Haven was Sea Side as stated. However, in the wide shot the large buildings in the scene were only facades. Additionally, when Truman is hitting golf balls of the unfinished bridge, this is done in Lynn haven Florida an hour down the road. The unfinished Bailey Bridge on Hwy 77 was used in this shot.
The Japanese man is played by Yuji Okumoto - Chozen from Karate Kid 2/Cobra Kai.
For the record, XXIX in Roman numerals does not equal 10,765. XXIX is 29.
I was just looking through the comments to see if anyone else noticed that
For that to be real X would need to be 4000 and I would be 1235. I have no idea how they messed that up so badly lol.
I’m sure those number were symbolic of something. Something the majority of humans don’t want to know or can’t handle
That's only the first part of the newspaper numbering system, which would be the volume, usually equivalent to years, while the issue would be 10,765. Some papers count every issue on top of the volume number like with this one, while others will start over with the issue numbers each year.
Stewart street a reference to Patrick Stewart? If they used Burt Lancaster, Stewart was likely Jimmy Stewart, not Patrick.
Proud to say that the market Truman goes into, (the one where his friend Marlon works) was my actual first place of employment in Seaside, Florida when I was 14. Really cool town you guys should check out if you get to vacation there!
Proud?
@@sarcasticallyrearranged It's not a bad thing to be proud of your first job.
The issue with playing classical music is that while the source is in public domain, the PERFORMANCE by the symphony is NOT in the public domain. They'd still have to play royalties for classical
Also, there's no reason to use standard FM bandwidth for communications. There are literally millions of frequencies outside that band they could use, since the dome obviously blocks out external RF.
They wouldn't have to pay royalties if they had an in-house symphony playing the songs, which if they had any kind of mood music that went along with the show, they likely would. Or would at least hire a symphony to do the musical cues and record the songs, just like any other TV show does.
@@Maria_Erias in-house orchestra you mean. A symphony is a specific type of music. An orchestra is the group of people that would play a symphony. Also in classical music we don't have songs, we have pieces.
There was a Broadway show from 1992 called 'Frank's Life' that was the same premise as this.
I always thought Marlon’s childhood absences were to replace the actor, so adult Marlon, in my interpretation, isn’t the same kid that Truman supposedly became friends with
You don’t think it was an excuse for the actor to have time off of work for a vacation?
@@sarcasticallyrearranged could be, I just assumed they were recasting. Time off is viable too tho
drew barrymore and patrick stewart really?! more likely james stewart and john barrymore
I've always assumed that he doesn't have a good life afterwards. The world knew everything about him, really wasn't prepared for real life, and add the paranoia that he would be still filmed. There would be a big settlement which would give him means to travel and his real love interest would be the connection to the show and reality, but that would only last so long. It would be an epic mental breakdown.
Or he uses fame and the love is real and blah blah blah.
I can picture him retreating to some lonely cottage thousands of miles away from any people.
Would be a great sequel of him on the outside with the woman he loved and turns out he hates it all and longs for his old life and ending with him going back and getting the woman from his office pregnant to keep the show real with a new star.
@@samuelwoods164 that would be so much worse. No, it’s best they cut it off here.
@@0g0dn0 for sute
The street names are from Jimmy Stewart and John Barrymore, not Patrick and Drew.
This is what happens when kids try to tell us about stuff we grew up with. Some of these TH-cam videos are like B+ oral high school reports
In a way "The Truman Show disorder" does exist as in the United Kingdom where I live there are CCTV cameras EVERYWHERE!
You might be paranoid but are you paranoid ENOUGH?
Judging from his age, the streets would be named after Jimmy Stewart and John Barrymore, not patrick and drew.
One my my favorite movies of all time. I learned about in school and watched it, then found out later it was one of my dads favorites too.
Japan tried a real life version.
.... Sigh, why am I not surprised Japan.
I remember in a later interview the man said wearing clothes afterwards felt uncomfortable to him. Imagine for one year you didn't wear anything clothes and suddenly you had to wear them again. I could imagine it would feel irritating.
Amazing how much thought that actually went into making the movie! It was the detail about the music and he catch phrase that really speaks to it
Jim Carrey should have won an Oscar for The Truman Show ! 10/10 performance ❤️
I don't know that it was a challenging enough role, compared to what was at the Oscars at that time.
Barrymore, Welles, Stewart and Lancaster probably all refer to the older actors, and not the modern day names you say?
Ah yes, lil Timmy Lancaster, star of nickelodeon hit "Oops, Here's Danny!"
LOL leave it to a Brit!! James “Jimmy”Stewart (who apparently they’ve never heard of across the pond) would be a Burt Lancaster contemporary. Patrick Stewart…. 😂😂😂 Let alone Lionel Barrymore or John Barrymore. 😂🤣😂 Drew is a fine actress but not the first of her family
Millenials, right?
I was just about to reply with the same information. I would think WhatCulture would at least do more research if they don't know Classic American actors.
Not even the 1st actress...Ethel was a legend.
This is my favourite movie of all time
The reference to the 'man-made' forest explains the rows of young trees as being evidence that the film production planted them for the film. Most probably, they are new growth 'crop' of trees planted by St. Joe, who has harvested trees in the southeast for decades. Along with Georgia Pacific, these paper & pulp producing companies have 'crops' of trees that they regularly harvest and replant. I grew up in S.C. Low Country and played in these types of woods. Knowing the 30A area (where Seaside is located), there are thousands of acres of these tree 'farms' that were part of St. Joe's operations.
2:30 I speak some Japanese and that does not say "Manichi Truman"
The one on the left says "Burbank Truman, Everyday,,, 24 hours"
The one on the right says "Please watch Burbank Meryl everyday"
Also pretty sure the large kanji on the very top of Meryl's sign says "wife".
When you're old enough to understand it's incredible!
You're
It's a little cliche.... But I love the ideas it presents....
I appreciate your use of the 1993 version of the three musketeers. That was my favorite growing up.
The issue number isn't in Roman numerals, it's in modern western figures No. 10,763. The Roman numerals simply tell us this newspaper is volume 29 (XXIX) and since a volume in newspaper terms usually means a calender year, that's not so hard to work out. If the edition number were in Roman numerals it would read as MMMMMMMMMMDCCLXIII
The video does a poor job of explaining it, but pretty clearly the WhatCulture producers do understand that point. They get that 10,763 issues of a daily newspaper is equivalent to somewhat more than 29 years.
he should hv won an Oscar
13:33 If that amount of days is roughly 29.5 years, then the newspaper would be on its 30th year, so it should read "Year XXX", not "Year XXIX"...
The first year (Year I) of a newspaper is between it being 0 days old and 365 days (1 year) old (or 366 if leap year).
Year II starts the day the newspaper celebrates 1 year of existence and goes until the eve of celebrating 2 years of existence. And so on.
The producers made a mistake.
Nope, the Freemasons obsess about details and don't make mistakes. They wanted to show 9/11.
Genuinely one of my favourite movies of all time
The multitude of Polish flags in the travel agency (14:42) is probably a warning that sometimes the destination of the trip can be very dangerous 😱.
Greetings from Poland🇵🇱!!
Since he's apparently conditioned to classical music, he'd probably be afraid of hardbass. Makes sense.
He should have won an Oscar for this film.
I was way too young when I watched this. Didn't get changed above the covers for a year. I was actually terrified 😂
What was the hiding under the covers to change all about? It's interesting that kids pick up on the dark undertones of this better than adults do. Many say they saw this as more comedic the first time around, but took years to realize how dark the premise was. Kids just intuitively pick up on it.
"A much darker, always raining New York City." You mean London?
Too many dystopian movies ("Bladerunner" the originaly anyway) are shown in rainy weather. Oy.
Years ago when I first saw this movie to rent I thought it was about Harry S Truman like a documentary. I almost didn’t get it and then changed my mind glad I did!
On moonlight: There's also a scene where a waxing gibbous (nearly full) moon can be seen next to a sunset, where it should be a nearly new crescent moon. If Truman knew even a little bit about real astronomy, who would probably have noticed something was wrong.
I'd love to see The Malcolm show, just to see how much darker it originally was.
I thought that was Breaking Bad?
Re: Lancaster/Stewart street sign reference 15: It wasn't relating to Patrick Stewart. It was James Stewart. Burt Lancaster and James Stewart did a number of movies together.
I would imagine that a lot of the character of Truman would be similar to Jim Carrey's real life. A "clown" = comic, the eyes of the world watching him. I would have no doubt that when he was playing this role, he brought a lot of his own personal experience into the character.
The moment when Truman's dad showed up, that solidified his belief that he was somehow being watched.
I love this movie there for a couple of years it was one of my picks for watching and letting play while I passed out lol and before streaming services I woke up alot to the dvd menu playing over and over
Put the movie on repeat.
Wooow this was amazing! Thank you! Well done! ♥
@Tom Whalen Hello
I think you're incorrect on 15. Stewart St. was probably named after Jimmy Stewart, not Patrick Stewart.
And Barrymore named after John, not Drew!
Not only being a clown trapped behind bars, but you also should've mentioned the flyer that said Free Truman Rally, since someone later comes forward to help free Truman from the prison he was in and people rally for him. Nice foreshadowing there.
James Stewart not Patrick…🤦🏻♂️
I was getting ready to type the same thing!
@@cappyjones Only after posting my comment on this did I see a few of you had already pointed it out. 🤷🏼♂️
Someone actually noted that it was quite a strike to their credibility. And I couldn't agree more.¹ Perfect word choice IMO.
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¹ ─ I did try to agree more, but it made my head hurt, and my nose bleed. 🥴
And it's also John Barrymore, not Drew
@@CaesiusX they make a mistake in every video deliberately to get people to comment
@@fill1013 I began to wonder. Literally thinking _they couldn't be this stupid._ Of course it was such an egregious screw-up (given their general content) that for me it was a real hit to their credibility. So much so I didn't even bother watching the rest.
I'd have thought the writers were thinking of James Stewart for streetname inspiration - The guy from "Its a wonderful life" and "Vertigo". Not Patrick Stewart from "Lifeforce" and "Corrie"
I can’t believe people complained about some of the shots. It was obvi hidden cameras. While reality shows of today were new back then, people were still very familiar with hidden camera joke and prank shows.
I noticed the weird design of Truman’s ring, but am kicking myself for never realizing it was obviously a camera. I definitely missed its journey through the film. I never clocked that he got it from his “dad” or that he gave it back to him.
Thanks Jules, your last message really made me step back
About to re watch this right now...
Truman in a clown suit behind bars is also a reference of Pagliacci or Laugh clown Laugh
The Japanese posters on the wall at 2:32 just state the names of Truman and Meryl on the right sides in Katakana. As Japanese uses syllables it's phonetically written. And the last name comes first.
"Baabanku Toruuman" and "Baabanku Meriru"
Truman's poster additionally states sth. about "24 hours" (most probably a day) and Meryl's contains the Kanji for "day" and a 7. Which takes us to 24/7, I suppose. 😉
The Moon one was my favourite! 😮🤯
Pretty sure it's named after Jimmy Stewart and John Barrymore
You called the paper the "seaside times" but it literally says "the island times" on the paper.
I thought the bib round the travel agents neck as she came in was to make Truman think he had interrupted her lunch.
One of my favorite movies.
I'm surprised nobody noticed Truman was a pot smoker! When rooting through the trunk, a small baggie appears for a split second...and it doesn't take much imagination to see it's a baggie with herb inside!
I did; I thought it was obvious for everyone...
Just realized that the travel agent poster of the lightning striking the plane predicts the format of memes in the future.
Wow. Good catch!
"it also shows the number of issues in roman numerals, as well as in english"...... uuuuuh.... if anything, it'd be in arabic ;)
I remember a recent meme where it was being said that kids were now being taught Arabic math in school, and American parents were losing their shit, saying that that was unacceptable and infringing on our education system.
Oh, the low intelligence of many in this country.
@@StageRight123 i feel bad for you man. it must be like being locked in the asylum when youre totally sane
@@bigpapadrew Eh, I'm in California, so people are pretty progressive and educated out here (not all of course). Critical thinking in other parts of the country though, not so much.
They are called Arabic numerals. They were actually invented in India, though.
They made that place by me in Florida called sea side
I love this movie. And now I need to watch it for the 12th time to see all these things and more potentially hidden details. I only knew 3 of these before I watched the video, which is low for when a video claims I don't know any of them.
The Truman show was filmed like 20 mins down the road from me in Seaside Florida.
I love how they ended it like things would suddenly be ok. Umm......this 30 year old man has never ACTUALLY lived in the real world...and now.....
Well, good luck with that pal, cause YOUR FAMOUS!
Christof made that argument to Truman in their final exchange: "There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. Same lies. The same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear." And that's clearly all true.
But Truman rejects the argument. A central message of the movie is that the control Christof exerts over Truman is tyrannical and wrong. There is nothing in the movie that suggests "things [will] suddenly be ok" for Truman outside the dome. It's just that, for the first time, his life will be his own. That's what the movie is arguing for.
@@georgenewman4464 My larger point was things would be FAR FAR FAR FAR worse for Truman than just the average individual. EVERYTHING about his ENTIRE life was orchestrated. The dude is going to be LITERALLY unable to function in the real world. Think about his social interactions HIS ENTIRE LIFE.....his fame will only last the first meeting or two with new people, then he goes from being a quirk to a person people are annoyed to be around for being so.....stupid.
@@georgenewman4464 Basically: I don't think he would be capable of even surviving in the world....let alone be happy.
The end was not terribly satisfying. Almost like they cut a chunk out at the end.
I once believed I was in a holodeck, like "Star Trek" and everything around me was an illusion.
Patrick Stewart? Maybe Jimmy Stewart? Drew Barrymore? Maybe John Barrymore?
We Are Living The Truman Show 💯👍
Wake Up People 💯👍
GOD is The Only Way Out 🙏
Keep Your SOUL💯👍💯👍
Or You Don't Go Forward👍
The Issue number of the Newspaper is phenomenal...
LOL, this show is a great movie and had a great concept.
God bless.
Surely the "Stewart street" is a reference to... James Stewart?
Another Easter egg is the light that falls at the beginning ita called Sirius which is the name of a song by Alan parsons project. That song leads right into eye in the sky.
I wonder where the first draft is, the original vision, the darker one? I hope we can read that and other major drafts out of the 16.
lmao I developed the truman show delusion way before I ever saw this movie
We used to know people with the last name "Truman". They were Church friends of my parents. Nowadays, more and more cameras as being set up all over on out to highways which we all find useful for viewing road conditions.
forgot to mention that the travel agent has a dome camera under her bib too
One of the advertisements says "Free Range Chicken"....
The island times, not seaside. Good video just thought I'd point it out because what is the TH-cam comment section for.
Bro I literally just TH-camd the exact title of this video 3-4 weeks ago after watching the Truman show and couldn’t find a good video and here this video is in my suggestions today… crazy /:
Volume XXIX in decimal is 29 (10+10+9).
With X being 10 and IX being 9 (as in 10 minus the preceding number 1).
Would love a darker VERSION NOW
He was afraid of water because it killed his dad... once his dad came back, his fear went away
Is that even his real dad??? .-.
Truman is brutally established in the scene on the unfinished bridge.
5:58 I thought it was a reference to James Stewart