The Truman show
Name ：*** Number ：201371*** Major ：applied chemistry
[abstract ]《The Truman show 》is a unique and creative film, the content is hair, touching, inspiring at the same time also has a smile of humor. This article will introduce the moving film from the following five aspects of the movie introduction, the main characters, plot analysis and individual reviews.
[Keywords ]：The Truman show，movie introduction，plot analysis，moving
1. Movie introduction
The Truman show is a black comedy played by Jim Carrey .Jim Carrey (January 17, 1962 -), African American comedian in Canada. Active in the film industry for many years, because of his no slang head style similar to Stephen chow, who has Chinese media put him as the "Hollywood chow", yet his performance in recent years has been beyond the pure face harlequin limitations.
The film is revealed to us how an ordinary people be made into a famous television star in his unwitting circumstance,and become a victim of mass entertainment industry.Film reflects our hope and anxiety, but also because of touches the most sensitive social problem and gets the high-profile.«The Truman show» is a unique and creative film, the content has hair, touching, inspiring at the same time also has a smile of humor.
2. major characters
Truman
He has been adopted by the British TV series since he was born. The aim of them is to create a TV program which shows the life of Truman. Truman had been living in a town called taoyuan island since the . He is an insurance company's agent in the town, Truman seemed to be livinchildhoodg a normal life, but he don't know every second in life there are thousands of cameras on him.Every moment the people all the world was watching him, more do not know nearby, including his wife and friends, are "the Truman show" actors.
Truman loves to himself, he live in his own daydream in the world (can be seen from the first scene, he said to the mirror some only he can understand, and he in the car, and the announcer answer.Truman is a very polite, very enthusiastic people (from a out of the house, he and enthusiastic people around and say "hello", and his work, into the turnstiles, always let the colleagues around advanced). And Truman is a very timid person (the first he was afraid of the dog, the second he is afraid of water, the reason was that the father suspended animation to cause his shadow).Truman was a very brave man (from his brave step by step to find the truth, have the courage to do, have the courage to escape from, eventually walked out of the false of the world.
Christof
He is the director of the program. We can say that it is Christof that create the people Truman. He cultivates Truman and makes him become a hero in a documentary of the world's most popular soap opera "the Truman show" . Christof is the total director of the reality TV show, he uses strong staffs squad and thousands of camera, and strong technical support for environmental control, realizes the control of the Truman for 30 years, under his meticulous planning, Truman was not aware of everything around them. In his words, though this is a program, Truman everything around is false, but Truman was true.
Meryl Burbank
Truman's wife, was sent to the actor, driven by the interests and reputation, and constantly hinder the Truman show the way of seeking freedom. She plays a doctor, but she don't even get the knife.
3. main plot
Born as a TV star, Truman is imprisoned in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.The director made a closed world of him. It was a big studio. As the movie started,Trueman's life was peaceful and warm,filled with happyness,of which we may be envious.Everything went on wheels,such as the first footstep,the first time to go to school,the first kiss and the first marriage.This life should be pretty comfortable,and it's just the one which most people want.
However,everyone in the movie knew Trueman in detail.They watched him raised up.Outside the island ,people watched it just like a interesting movie focus on one's privacy.On the island,people acted all the roles in society,they did the same thing with sham day after day ,for instance,that twins seems like good oldies,said so much to pleasure Trueman,but they didn't really want to help him,that is,didn't want to buy any insurance.So,they were politely,say hello to him "Good morning,good afternoon,good evening and goodnight!" Everything in this world is fake. His life and his work is designed. All his friends, his parents, evens his wife are actors.His mother,wife,even the best friend pretended to encourage and understand him.what's a pity!
Many years before a young girls, the Truman show’s loyal audience who named ShiWeiYa showed extra sympathetic to Truman, chu door was open love at first sight. She gave Truman some well-meaning hinted that his was forced out of the set. Recall something about the ShiWeiYa, Truman began to know of his life. Gradually Truman found everyone in the company go to the real work after he appeared. On the road near his home every day, the same people and cars appeared again and again, what more let him couldn't believe it is, his wife was not a doctor who Claim to be a doctor and go to a hospital every day. Truman began to suspect the world he lived in , including his wife, friend and father all lying to him, a genuine fear arises spontaneously.
Trueman found that his father still alive ,and he still love the first girl deeply in his heart. Finally, he wanted to go Fiji and left this "lucky homeland".From these mistakes, he decided to escape his tone of the town at all costs , to find his own true life and true love him. However, Truman underestimated the Christopher's strength, the producer and director who set the soap opera. Christopher designed everything to be nearly perfect, firmly control the Truman in the seascape surreal world in nearly 30 years.He went to several agencies of transporting,while the ships were gone or destroyed, the airport had no ticket.Then he drove his own car, but the road was round and round. When he found one way to escape,amazing that, the police knew him and brought him home.He realize he must do it all by himself.Truman decided to leave the city from the sea. The faith of love and freedom gave him the brave heart to defeat the stormy sea. He managed to arrive at the horizon (It was a circle wall) and he went up on the stairs.
However he is desperate to find him in front of the sea and the sky is a part of the huge studio, Christopher try to persuade him back to the island,then Christopher stay in huge control room in heaven and tells the story of the ins and outs of things and tell Truman he is already the world's most popular stars, everything he achieved today is impossible, if he is willing to stay at seaview life can continue to star, Trueman made his choice,"In case I don't see you,good afternoon goodevening and goodnight". There may be more dangerous ,sham and cheat out of the island ,but all of this come from nature and society not from the people stared him all the day. Truman resolutely goes away a trail toward freedom.
4. my critics
When you are at the age of 30, suddenly discovered that your life was complete a grand scheme, what would you feel? I admire the show's writers, truly was the best screenplay. He vividly with irony technique to show the modern world was infiltrated by the media. Our age is an age of how? The development of technology, material abundance, liberation of the people on earth is still bound? Whether to push people to the direction of the more independent, or put him more in their opposites, more lost themselves, further away from the real world and real life?"The Truman show" in an almost allegorical narrative, gave us an interesting answer.
Everyone has their own script, called "fate". But what the end of the market "fate" is? Our education system, social structure, economic mode, moral and cultural tradition are constantly educate the world, but what a man we really want to be ? At the same time, our media, especially television and film, all educate us to be a hero in order to be nice, when we are a boy we constantly strive for these beautiful lies. But suddenly one day, we found that the illusion of bubble burst, only depend on own strength is short of the target, then it confused us and how should we go? Like the movie, Truman first love girlfriend only has a few scenes of short appearance, her clothing has a badge feature: "How is it going to end?" - it is what kind of ending? The answer is too complicated.
But obviously, Truman belongs only to the Truman show, a manipulation of the virtual world. His born, grow, and all the joys and sorrows, if it has no accident, including his death, will be in a manipulation and design stage, and lead the rich modern men and women of the world stand to watch. They have combined with Truman, experiencing growth course.If they leave the Truman show, their lives would die, the world will be chaos, life is meaningless. But however, the show which was designed to be a good lasted 30 years throughout not reality, was shattered by Truman's suspicion and seek for himself . Return to our world, we know each other from birth a little of the world, The vast majority of the vast majority are by others. Teachers, parents, relatives and friends, reading, movies, television, music, Internet, even nature. Our cognition of the world provide us with information, tell us what in the world, and we think it is.
But change an Angle, every day news broadcast tells us: domestic peace and stability, the leadership of sate, the people's well-being rich, foreign wars, natural disasters, economic depression, anti-china political, the science and technology, even the morality and values in the mass media constantly pull his mouth. What they said is true? Swear said today, then tomorrow what rhetoric will be out again? Reality always more complicated than the movie. If there is such a beautiful, simple ,promised and less damaged virtual world in front of you, compared to the real world which is full of lies and fraud, will you choose go through the dark portal?
Freedom is very important for everyone, and what’s more , more people want to taste the taste of life in life, no matter the taste is sweet，sour, salty, or something. it is greatly to a personal life experience. Everyone is yearning for stability and successful life, but when they get all this without the effect, they would get a less taste. Parents always think them eating a lot of life, don't want let their children to eat the bitter, want to directly through its own conditions to get the kids to enjoy success easy and comfortable life. But they hadn't thought of that person for the lifetime of experience is a fortune, striving, failure to deep taste the taste of life, it is a process to let the life rich and colorful, is such a process, the mind can enrich and precipitation. Not through wind and rain, could not have a profound comprehension of life, don't face the problem, will not let myself get exercise and improve. When parents to arrange everything to a child, the child's brain is blank, there are a lot of question marks. Man is a spiritual demand, if the experience of life is a blank, enjoy a life of ease, he really crazy. Everyone don't want to be a idot, more don't want to be a puppet.
Marshall McLuhan said, media is the extension of the human body. If someday we all became a hand long feet to the ground clairvoyant, then within easy reach of convenience compared with no shelter is perspective, Truman, will you not want to go back to the crowded island, become a normal person with a hand and foot length and facial features function ? The door, is changed into along the way to the siege, outside people want to go in and out.
5. the classic dialogue
Sylvia ： Look at what you've done to him!
Christof ：
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.
Network Executive:
For God's sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can't let him die in front of a live audience!
Christof ：
He was born in front of a live audience.
Truman ：
Who are you?
Christof ：
I am the creator..of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.
Truman:
And who am I?
Christof You're the star.
Truman:
Was nothing real?
Christof ：
You were real. That's what made you so good to watch. Listen to me, Truman. 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. I know you better than you know yourself.
Truman ：
You never had a camera in my head!
Christof:
You're afraid. That's why you can't leave. It's okay, Truman. I understand. I have been watching you your whole life. I was watching when you were born. I was watching when you took your first step. I watched you on your first day of school. heh heh. The episode when you lost your first tooth. heh heh heh. You can't leave, Truman. You belong here...With me. Talk to me. Say something. 'ell, say something, goddamnit! You're on television! You're live to the whole world!
Truman:
In case I don't see ya', good afternoon, good evening and goodnight. Hahaha! Yeah!
Reference
[1]Richard Xue Keer.the truman show-the smile with tear’s moive[C]//《TIME 》: [s.n.], 1998.
[2]Reggie Smith.Investigate the level of the film.New York Times, 2000, 21(2): 97 －101.
[3]吴瑞庭. 中国动画电影艺术[J].第文山师范高等专科学校学报.2008（07）
[4]Foth H D.Enchanted drawings：the history of animation[M].new york：basic books,2007： 157-210
[5]Prusinkiewicz，hammel ，Mjolsness. Animation of plant development [M]. London ： Pearson education limited，2001：213-258
The Truman show
Name ：*** Number ：201371*** Major ：applied chemistry
[abstract ]《The Truman show 》is a unique and creative film, the content is hair, touching, inspiring at the same time also has a smile of humor. This article will introduce the moving film from the following five aspects of the movie introduction, the main characters, plot analysis and individual reviews.
[Keywords ]：The Truman show，movie introduction，plot analysis，moving
1. Movie introduction
The Truman show is a black comedy played by Jim Carrey .Jim Carrey (January 17, 1962 -), African American comedian in Canada. Active in the film industry for many years, because of his no slang head style similar to Stephen chow, who has Chinese media put him as the "Hollywood chow", yet his performance in recent years has been beyond the pure face harlequin limitations.
The film is revealed to us how an ordinary people be made into a famous television star in his unwitting circumstance,and become a victim of mass entertainment industry.Film reflects our hope and anxiety, but also because of touches the most sensitive social problem and gets the high-profile.«The Truman show» is a unique and creative film, the content has hair, touching, inspiring at the same time also has a smile of humor.
2. major characters
Truman
He has been adopted by the British TV series since he was born. The aim of them is to create a TV program which shows the life of Truman. Truman had been living in a town called taoyuan island since the . He is an insurance company's agent in the town, Truman seemed to be livinchildhoodg a normal life, but he don't know every second in life there are thousands of cameras on him.Every moment the people all the world was watching him, more do not know nearby, including his wife and friends, are "the Truman show" actors.
Truman loves to himself, he live in his own daydream in the world (can be seen from the first scene, he said to the mirror some only he can understand, and he in the car, and the announcer answer.Truman is a very polite, very enthusiastic people (from a out of the house, he and enthusiastic people around and say "hello", and his work, into the turnstiles, always let the colleagues around advanced). And Truman is a very timid person (the first he was afraid of the dog, the second he is afraid of water, the reason was that the father suspended animation to cause his shadow).Truman was a very brave man (from his brave step by step to find the truth, have the courage to do, have the courage to escape from, eventually walked out of the false of the world.
Christof
He is the director of the program. We can say that it is Christof that create the people Truman. He cultivates Truman and makes him become a hero in a documentary of the world's most popular soap opera "the Truman show" . Christof is the total director of the reality TV show, he uses strong staffs squad and thousands of camera, and strong technical support for environmental control, realizes the control of the Truman for 30 years, under his meticulous planning, Truman was not aware of everything around them. In his words, though this is a program, Truman everything around is false, but Truman was true.
Meryl Burbank
Truman's wife, was sent to the actor, driven by the interests and reputation, and constantly hinder the Truman show the way of seeking freedom. She plays a doctor, but she don't even get the knife.
3. main plot
Born as a TV star, Truman is imprisoned in a small island called Seahaven for the first half of his life.The director made a closed world of him. It was a big studio. As the movie started,Trueman's life was peaceful and warm,filled with happyness,of which we may be envious.Everything went on wheels,such as the first footstep,the first time to go to school,the first kiss and the first marriage.This life should be pretty comfortable,and it's just the one which most people want.
However,everyone in the movie knew Trueman in detail.They watched him raised up.Outside the island ,people watched it just like a interesting movie focus on one's privacy.On the island,people acted all the roles in society,they did the same thing with sham day after day ,for instance,that twins seems like good oldies,said so much to pleasure Trueman,but they didn't really want to help him,that is,didn't want to buy any insurance.So,they were politely,say hello to him "Good morning,good afternoon,good evening and goodnight!" Everything in this world is fake. His life and his work is designed. All his friends, his parents, evens his wife are actors.His mother,wife,even the best friend pretended to encourage and understand him.what's a pity!
Many years before a young girls, the Truman show’s loyal audience who named ShiWeiYa showed extra sympathetic to Truman, chu door was open love at first sight. She gave Truman some well-meaning hinted that his was forced out of the set. Recall something about the ShiWeiYa, Truman began to know of his life. Gradually Truman found everyone in the company go to the real work after he appeared. On the road near his home every day, the same people and cars appeared again and again, what more let him couldn't believe it is, his wife was not a doctor who Claim to be a doctor and go to a hospital every day. Truman began to suspect the world he lived in , including his wife, friend and father all lying to him, a genuine fear arises spontaneously.
Trueman found that his father still alive ,and he still love the first girl deeply in his heart. Finally, he wanted to go Fiji and left this "lucky homeland".From these mistakes, he decided to escape his tone of the town at all costs , to find his own true life and true love him. However, Truman underestimated the Christopher's strength, the producer and director who set the soap opera. Christopher designed everything to be nearly perfect, firmly control the Truman in the seascape surreal world in nearly 30 years.He went to several agencies of transporting,while the ships were gone or destroyed, the airport had no ticket.Then he drove his own car, but the road was round and round. When he found one way to escape,amazing that, the police knew him and brought him home.He realize he must do it all by himself.Truman decided to leave the city from the sea. The faith of love and freedom gave him the brave heart to defeat the stormy sea. He managed to arrive at the horizon (It was a circle wall) and he went up on the stairs.
However he is desperate to find him in front of the sea and the sky is a part of the huge studio, Christopher try to persuade him back to the island,then Christopher stay in huge control room in heaven and tells the story of the ins and outs of things and tell Truman he is already the world's most popular stars, everything he achieved today is impossible, if he is willing to stay at seaview life can continue to star, Trueman made his choice,"In case I don't see you,good afternoon goodevening and goodnight". There may be more dangerous ,sham and cheat out of the island ,but all of this come from nature and society not from the people stared him all the day. Truman resolutely goes away a trail toward freedom.
4. my critics
When you are at the age of 30, suddenly discovered that your life was complete a grand scheme, what would you feel? I admire the show's writers, truly was the best screenplay. He vividly with irony technique to show the modern world was infiltrated by the media. Our age is an age of how? The development of technology, material abundance, liberation of the people on earth is still bound? Whether to push people to the direction of the more independent, or put him more in their opposites, more lost themselves, further away from the real world and real life?"The Truman show" in an almost allegorical narrative, gave us an interesting answer.
Everyone has their own script, called "fate". But what the end of the market "fate" is? Our education system, social structure, economic mode, moral and cultural tradition are constantly educate the world, but what a man we really want to be ? At the same time, our media, especially television and film, all educate us to be a hero in order to be nice, when we are a boy we constantly strive for these beautiful lies. But suddenly one day, we found that the illusion of bubble burst, only depend on own strength is short of the target, then it confused us and how should we go? Like the movie, Truman first love girlfriend only has a few scenes of short appearance, her clothing has a badge feature: "How is it going to end?" - it is what kind of ending? The answer is too complicated.
But obviously, Truman belongs only to the Truman show, a manipulation of the virtual world. His born, grow, and all the joys and sorrows, if it has no accident, including his death, will be in a manipulation and design stage, and lead the rich modern men and women of the world stand to watch. They have combined with Truman, experiencing growth course.If they leave the Truman show, their lives would die, the world will be chaos, life is meaningless. But however, the show which was designed to be a good lasted 30 years throughout not reality, was shattered by Truman's suspicion and seek for himself . Return to our world, we know each other from birth a little of the world, The vast majority of the vast majority are by others. Teachers, parents, relatives and friends, reading, movies, television, music, Internet, even nature. Our cognition of the world provide us with information, tell us what in the world, and we think it is.
But change an Angle, every day news broadcast tells us: domestic peace and stability, the leadership of sate, the people's well-being rich, foreign wars, natural disasters, economic depression, anti-china political, the science and technology, even the morality and values in the mass media constantly pull his mouth. What they said is true? Swear said today, then tomorrow what rhetoric will be out again? Reality always more complicated than the movie. If there is such a beautiful, simple ,promised and less damaged virtual world in front of you, compared to the real world which is full of lies and fraud, will you choose go through the dark portal?
Freedom is very important for everyone, and what’s more , more people want to taste the taste of life in life, no matter the taste is sweet，sour, salty, or something. it is greatly to a personal life experience. Everyone is yearning for stability and successful life, but when they get all this without the effect, they would get a less taste. Parents always think them eating a lot of life, don't want let their children to eat the bitter, want to directly through its own conditions to get the kids to enjoy success easy and comfortable life. But they hadn't thought of that person for the lifetime of experience is a fortune, striving, failure to deep taste the taste of life, it is a process to let the life rich and colorful, is such a process, the mind can enrich and precipitation. Not through wind and rain, could not have a profound comprehension of life, don't face the problem, will not let myself get exercise and improve. When parents to arrange everything to a child, the child's brain is blank, there are a lot of question marks. Man is a spiritual demand, if the experience of life is a blank, enjoy a life of ease, he really crazy. Everyone don't want to be a idot, more don't want to be a puppet.
Marshall McLuhan said, media is the extension of the human body. If someday we all became a hand long feet to the ground clairvoyant, then within easy reach of convenience compared with no shelter is perspective, Truman, will you not want to go back to the crowded island, become a normal person with a hand and foot length and facial features function ? The door, is changed into along the way to the siege, outside people want to go in and out.
5. the classic dialogue
Sylvia ： Look at what you've done to him!
Christof ：
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.
Network Executive:
For God's sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can't let him die in front of a live audience!
Christof ：
He was born in front of a live audience.
Truman ：
Who are you?
Christof ：
I am the creator..of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.
Truman:
And who am I?
Christof You're the star.
Truman:
Was nothing real?
Christof ：
You were real. That's what made you so good to watch. Listen to me, Truman. 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. I know you better than you know yourself.
Truman ：
You never had a camera in my head!
Christof:
You're afraid. That's why you can't leave. It's okay, Truman. I understand. I have been watching you your whole life. I was watching when you were born. I was watching when you took your first step. I watched you on your first day of school. heh heh. The episode when you lost your first tooth. heh heh heh. You can't leave, Truman. You belong here...With me. Talk to me. Say something. 'ell, say something, goddamnit! You're on television! You're live to the whole world!
Truman:
In case I don't see ya', good afternoon, good evening and goodnight. Hahaha! Yeah!
Reference
[1]Richard Xue Keer.the truman show-the smile with tear’s moive[C]//《TIME 》: [s.n.], 1998.
[2]Reggie Smith.Investigate the level of the film.New York Times, 2000, 21(2): 97 －101.
[3]吴瑞庭. 中国动画电影艺术[J].第文山师范高等专科学校学报.2008（07）
[4]Foth H D.Enchanted drawings：the history of animation[M].new york：basic books,2007： 157-210
[5]Prusinkiewicz，hammel ，Mjolsness. Animation of plant development [M]. London ： Pearson education limited，2001：213-258