But this wouldn't have been a surrogacy it would have been HER child with Truman. In my opinion that would be completely different from carrying his child from a donor egg.
That depends on how you look at it. Based on the concept of corporate personhood, if the Omnicam Corporation pay Hannah Gill, under written contract, to conceive a child with Truman, with the Corporation serving as legal parent (as was also the case with Truman), legally the child can not be said to belong to Hannah Gill. The child in question wouldn't even exist if not for the desire of the Omnicam Corporation. From Hannah's perspective, it's simply a business transaction, in the same way as her “marriage” to Truman. Morally questionable to be sure, but it should be.
Meryl would pretty much have to live there. Yes, she gets to leave to go to a job but a good majority of her time would be at home with Truman. The others, yes, the could easily leave.
Assuming Truman works a 9-5 job, at most Meryl would need to be there for a brief time in the morning, and during the weekends. That gives her a minimum of 35 hours a week, without pretense, when she wouldn't need to be there.
The number of hours absent can be increased to just under 100 hours a week by simply having her work night shift, and increased further with plot contrivances.
I disagree. She wouldn't see her husband very often at all. And a family? How would they explain a pregnancy if it wasn't Truman's?
It would be in extremely bad taste, but Hannah could get pregnant and simply not tell Truman about it. Have Meryl supposedly gain weight and then leave to attend a fat camp. No matter how suspicious Truman got, pregnancy tests, manipulated by the show, would continue to be negative. Or she could use a literal surrogate.
Also, if they did lead Truman to believe a pregnancy was his child what would happen with that child? If it wasn't his wouldn't Meryl's real husband want to see his child from time to time?
I don't think that would happen. If Hannah has her own child on her own terms, I think it would be outside the legal control of the studio, and they'd want no part of it.
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ZeoRangerFive
10 years ago
Assuming Truman works a 9-5 job, at most Meryl would need to be there for a brief time in the morning, and during the weekends. That gives her a minimum of 35 hours a week, without pretense, when she wouldn't need to be there.
The number of hours absent can be increased to just under 100 hours a week by simply having her work night shift, and increased further with plot contrivances.
True, but she would have to work night shifts a lot. I mean, most married couples sleep in the same bed every night. It just seems very implausible for this to happen or work at all. Everyone else I could see just being there when needed, but then that raises another question. In the scene when Truman freaks out at Meryl and grabs the slicer and then Marlon shows up at the drop of a hat, they called him to make sure he showed up and stopped what was happening. Why was he there so quick if he didn't live in the dome?
It is very much implied that these people live inside this fake world. They never really imply that any of them don't live in there.
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Jenocalypse
10 years ago
It's not meant to work. If it did, maybe Hannah/Meryl would have some genuine feelings for Truman instead of just treating him like a living prop.
Marlon has an interesting backstory that suggests, due to circumstances, he may be a victim of The Truman Show almost as much Truman himself. The guilt of keeping such a secret from Truman leads to severe substance abuse, and his attempts at making a life for himself outside of The Truman Show haven't worked. But most of that didn't make it into the movie.
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AdmiralTugBenson
10 years ago
Marlon has an interesting backstory that suggests, due to circumstances, he may be a victim of The Truman Show almost as much Truman himself. The guilt of keeping such a secret from Truman leads to severe substance abuse, and his attempts at making a life for himself outside of The Truman Show haven't worked. But most of that didn't make it into the movie.
That's interesting, I haven't heard that. I have sometimes wondered if Marlon was a bit of a victim too, but the scenes where he's coordinating the search on the ground sort of set him up as a villain. Of course he might be a little institutionalized having spent his entire life working for the production, and is just doing what he's told.
As for the original question of whether anybody would sign up to marry/mate with Truman, sure they would. People will do anything for fame it seems. If you walk around on the street in L.A. and start asking aspiring actresses if they'd be willing to get knocked up for the sake of a contract on the most popular television show in the world you probably wouldn't have to look long. Celebrities get married and knocked up for attention all the time in the real world. We live in a world where people leak sex tapes for attention, and get it. And people get married and start families with people for reasons other than love every day. Money, social status, celebrity, etc. Remember when Anna Nicole Smith married the Crypt Keeper?
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windowlicker269
10 years ago
"Assuming Truman works a 9-5 job, at most Meryl would need to be there for a brief time in the morning, and during the weekends. That gives her a minimum of 35 hours a week, without pretense, when she wouldn't need to be there. "
she has to be there in the evening and the whole *beep* night! (unless she has the nightshift lol) I love how you keep pretending she has a fair amount of free time lol
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Jenocalypse
10 years ago
Thanks. It's always nice to meet a fan.
What, you thought I was being serious?
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