The biggest mistake the Truman production team made was where Truman runs in the building where the fake elevator was. They should have had the walls closed back up or told the girl getting in to wait.
sharelol yeah. Check out the girls expression when she gets in. She has this incredibly awkward look on her face. xD
Mirror mirror on my floor. Am I the prettiest at the store?
The highly inaccurate "moon" and its phases in relationship to the "sun" are an even bigger mistake.
shareAssuming that they actually told Truman the truth about the solar system...
His teacher told him there's nothing left to explore after all.
No. The sun lights the moon, but the moon's dark side in relation to the sun was all wrong. Truman grew up in physical reality, so he knows how spheres look when they're lit. He'd recognize very early on that the sky is fake.
Re-watch the movie and note the moon and the sun in relation to each other and you'll see what I mean.
come off it, he'd have to be pretty bright to figure something like that out without being taught it. How do you think people used to think the earth was flat.
shareIf I was in that situation, I'd sense awkwardness every time my wife held up an object, smiling, and explained all its benefits to me. During their kitchen argument, Truman's reaction was correct when she shilled the Mococoa product, "Who are you talking to?"
Another oddity for me, would have been the gentlemen twins who always stopped and backed Truman up against the advertising billboard.
"They should have had the walls closed back up or told the girl getting in to wait. "
There were zillions of such mistakes, much worse than that one.
But WHY was the hag even going in, SEEING THAT TRUMAN WAS RIGHT THERE? Shouldn't she (and the others) be, like: "Hey, this elevator is out of order", and everyonee joining in? And the one who controls the door (and they should be controlled at a second's notice, or the whole friggin' project is created and led by ridiculously incompetent amateurs), should have KEPT IT CLOSED.
I mean, they are SETs, they don't have to follow real elevator door rules. In fact, it would be stupid, if they did. It'd be better, if every elevator door was always separately controlled (only Truman needs to be fooled that they are real elevators - without him around, no one needs to use them, so there can always be someone making the doors work, when they need the illusion for Truman).
Still, there are at least a bunch of much worse mistakes, the first being that he was given WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION about the world. He really didn't need it, and there was no reason to give it to him. Why would he even be told that 'travel agents' exist? Or that there IS any world outside the island? Or that stars even exist, let alone that they would need to make a believable 'Sirius'? Or why use such huge spotlight lamps for the stars? Or why not at least ATTACH the lamp properly, like they are in real life (they ALWAYS use at least TWO (2) separate systems to secure every heavy prop, exactly to prevent this kind of 'accidents').
So many things didn't make any sense - some things were WAY more elaborate than needed, and some things were so stupidly under-budgeted, that it makes a rational viewer groan. Why keep looping the people after everyone knows Truman already figured it out? Why clear the street so quickly, after Truman decides to go somewhere else, and why not bring back a similar 'rush hour' crowd? Don't they have enough resources for THAT, but they can create perfectly believable moon and sun (that do NOT NEED TO BE REALISTIC, because he doesn't have any point of references to compare to! The sun can be friggin' GREEN and there can be 20 purple moons, and he won't know the difference! (Unless the stupid morons tell him))...
Sooooooooo many stupidities and mistakes.
I hate movies, whose plot is COMPLETELY dependent on there being stupidities happening throughout, and incompetence having to happen, so that the plot can progress.
That's just _BAD_WRITING_.
I mean they never needed that building to be operational before. He just had that mini breakdown after hearing the radio and was not going about his normal routine. All the building ever was a convincing lobby since Truman never went inside.
The viewers watch the show because its so believable. The show would lose its realism and go into realm Sci-Fi if the viewers were watching Truman being taught about the World of Blah and the moons of whatever. He is taught the real world to ground the show in realism which is what draws the viewers to begin with.
You say they could have told Truman anything which is true but they are marketing to the audience and they need to believe its at least somewhat real.
Great points, cordawg25!
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