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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 16:57:34 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   We watched "The Truman Show" tonight and it is still an amazing film. Truly impressive.
   
   I see more layers and details in it now than I did half a life ago and I'm just floored that it was released only a year after the first airing of "Expedition Robinson" (Swedish "Survivor", the first one to air) and a year *before* the original Dutch "Big Brother" reality show aired.
   • Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:35:10 UTC Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     I mean, fundamentally the whole idea is "how do we stop having to pay script writers?".

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:35:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Leif Lindholm
     @unixsmurf That may be what reality television, and even more than reality television, what user-generated content like social networks are about, but it's not what the film is about.
     
     Using Truman instead of an actor made the project incredibly costly for Christof and his investors.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:44:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Leif Lindholm
     @unixsmurf Sure!
   • Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:44:14 UTC Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     But surely that's where the original idea came from? The push of everything to panel shows, gameshows, ...

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:51:49 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Leif Lindholm
     @unixsmurf Ok, but Christof's show featuring Truman literally had script writers; "We're introducing a new love interest in the next episode". Their job was just more challenging because the main character was "authentic".
     
     Anyway, the film isn't about why we have reality television, it's about now that we have it what it does to us, what it does to the characters, how different (or not) life is from a reality show, etc.
   • Leif Lindholm (unixsmurf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:51:50 UTC Leif Lindholm

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     @clacke
     And I wasn't talking about actors, I was talking about script writers.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jun-2022 17:52:06 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     It's also about those two adorable elderly ladies watching TV, who I probably didn't understand were a couple when I watched it in 1998. =)
   • FiXato (fixato@toot.cat)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 05:20:14 UTC FiXato

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     @clacke I remember watching that film during a Film Analysis class I took as an extra-curriculum course. Really made me appreciate that film more.

     Watched it again one or two years ago, and it still holds up. :) One of Carrey's better roles imho.

     (I do wonder what the film would've been like with John Malkovich in the titular role...)

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 05:24:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃
     @mdhughes Oh, cool.
     
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_…
     
     I didn't know J. Michael Straczynski wrote Twilight Zone episodes.
   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 05:24:09 UTC Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     @clacke Or, 9 years after the Twilight Zone "Special Service".