The Truman Show Essay
‘The Truman Show’
Director Peter Weir has presented us with several memorable scenes and images in ‘The Truman Show’, which remain with us and help to convey the ideas he is trying to get across to the audience. Narrative is used in ‘The Truman Show’ to engage the audience’s interest through the film. Weir’s excellent choice of cast and different techniques which he uses within the film is the reason why ‘The Truman Show’ was such a success with his targeted audience.
The opening sequence of the Peter Weir’s film begins with a close up of Ed Harris, who plays Christof, the director of the television program ‘The Truman Show’. The round rimmed glasses of which he wears suggests a quality of intelligence. In this scene, Christof argues that there is truth in Truman though he concedes the counterfeit quality of the world he created. He …show more content…
This line is spoken by Noah Emmerich’s character Louis Coltrane, during an interview in the beginning scenes of the film. Coltrane plays Marlon, Truman’s best friend and long life pal in the show. Yet later on in the film, there is a scene where Marlon and Truman are sitting on the edge of a pier having a heart to heart. The music played is slow and suggestive of Truman’s troubled state of mind. Marlon pauses frequently in a way that the audience both outside and within the film assume is a result of his trouble in finding the right words to say. When the camera then pans out across the faces of the director (Christof) and other crew, we find that Marlon had no trouble in finding the right words, though instead was waiting for the right words to be given. After seeing Christof feed Marlon his dialogue through an earpiece, you begin to find Marlon’s previous statement in the beginning of the film contradictive. There is also a chilling irony in the way Marlon says the line “the last thing I would ever do is lie to you” only moments after Christof has whispered these
Director Peter Weir has presented us with several memorable scenes and images in ‘The Truman Show’, which remain with us and help to convey the ideas he is trying to get across to the audience. Narrative is used in ‘The Truman Show’ to engage the audience’s interest through the film. Weir’s excellent choice of cast and different techniques which he uses within the film is the reason why ‘The Truman Show’ was such a success with his targeted audience.
The opening sequence of the Peter Weir’s film begins with a close up of Ed Harris, who plays Christof, the director of the television program ‘The Truman Show’. The round rimmed glasses of which he wears suggests a quality of intelligence. In this scene, Christof argues that there is truth in Truman though he concedes the counterfeit quality of the world he created. He …show more content…
This line is spoken by Noah Emmerich’s character Louis Coltrane, during an interview in the beginning scenes of the film. Coltrane plays Marlon, Truman’s best friend and long life pal in the show. Yet later on in the film, there is a scene where Marlon and Truman are sitting on the edge of a pier having a heart to heart. The music played is slow and suggestive of Truman’s troubled state of mind. Marlon pauses frequently in a way that the audience both outside and within the film assume is a result of his trouble in finding the right words to say. When the camera then pans out across the faces of the director (Christof) and other crew, we find that Marlon had no trouble in finding the right words, though instead was waiting for the right words to be given. After seeing Christof feed Marlon his dialogue through an earpiece, you begin to find Marlon’s previous statement in the beginning of the film contradictive. There is also a chilling irony in the way Marlon says the line “the last thing I would ever do is lie to you” only moments after Christof has whispered these