Rewatchables Reference

• Glenn: Truman putting it all together – going through the revolving door, 'he's starting to see the ones and zeros.' 'The wish fulfillment of the whole movie.'
• CR: Truman going through the revolving door and walking into the black doorway.
• Bill: The ending when he hits the wall – 'I've seen this movie multiple times and it still takes me back.' Also: the opening with Christof's interview, Truman's flashback to Lauren in high school.

• Glenn: Travel agents; reality television being a novel idea – 'in 1998 this would have seemed incredibly far-fetched and now it seems like Oh yeah, is there a Truman Show on Channel 236?'
• Bill: Young Paul Giamatti – 'he had this whole that guy run in the 90s before he became Paul Giamatti.'

• Bill: Product placement satire; adults playing high school kids in flashbacks believably; no cats in Seahaven (only dogs); T-Rex '20th Century Boy' as a 1950s cover; the Philip Glass score.
• Glenn: The poster; Laura Linney's deliberately bad acting during product placement scenes.
• CR: The reality TV prediction – predicted Survivor/Big Brother two years early.

• Glenn: CGI of the bubble/dome; cutbacks to real world could have explored ethical/legal entanglements more.
• Craig: The Matt Gaetz connection to the filming location.

• Bill: The final shot – Truman silhouetted against the painted sky.
• Glenn: The moment he hits the wall and sees the painted clouds up close.

• Glenn: The dad storyline could have been better with a bigger/more empathetic actor.
• Bill: What was actually fun about watching this show 24 hours a day?

• Glenn: The movie could have been really good with Tom Hanks – 'he represents the everyman. Jim Carrey is so over the top as a person. Hanks would represent a little bit more of an everyman realizing he represents something to the world.'
• CR: Brian De Palma's version would have been amazing – 'more paranoid, debased psychology. Truman cutting up magazine pictures to recreate Lauren. Melanie Griffith playing Meryl.'
• Bill: 1998 is in the running for the greatest movie year ever – rattled off 20+ categories all filled with great films ('Saving Private Ryan', Big Lebowski, 'Rounders', There's Something About Mary, 'Out of Sight', 'Enemy of the State', 'He Got Game', 'Armageddon', 'Ronin', etc.).

• Brian De Palma was originally attached to direct.
• Peter Weir waited a year for Carrey (who had to make Cable Guy and Liar Liar first).
• Originally conceived as a darker, more paranoid thriller.

Young Paul Giamatti – 'bellhop in 'My Best Friend's Wedding', this whole that guy run in the 90s.' Also: Harry Shearer, Peter Krause, Holland Taylor.

• Jim Carrey: Bill says yes. Carrey's 1994-2000 run discussed as possibly the best comedian crossover ever: Ace Ventura, The Mask, 'Dumb and Dumber', 'Batman' Forever, Cable Guy, Liar Liar, Truman Show, Man on the Moon.
• Reality TV: Right before its actual apex.

• Bill: How do they handle it when Truman goes to the bathroom? What about the extremely boring parts of his daily routine?
• Glenn: The scale of the operation seems impossibly expensive to maintain for 35 years.

Bill: 'Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get me.' Also: the audience immediately changes the channel after 35 years – 'What else is on?'

• CR: The Matrix – both about discovering your reality is fake.
• Glenn: The Game (Fincher, 1997).
• Bill: Gattaca – the other Andrew Niccol film.

Glenn and Bill: Jim Carrey. 'He needed this one.'

Craig had seen it many times. Said the movie feels ahead of its time – 'it feels like a 2015 movie in 1998.'