...The Truman Show There are many different films and genres, but there is one film that both provides a different outlook and is entertaining at the same time. The Truman Show is a movie that is about a man named Truman Burbank whose entire life was televised and set up since birth without his knowledge, which eventually realizes due to a series of events. This TV show was created by a man named Christof, who is in charge of Truman’s life, the actors around him and the enclosed city he built for Truman, called Seahaven. The Truman Show is a good film because of the psychological effect by the idea of the film, the difference between the real world and a perfect world, and the many religious connotations with it and allusions to God. One way this movie psychologically affects our perspective and helps us become a bit more aware because the movie shows Truman Burbank as a normal, regular person whose life was completely setup by a director. Similarly, humans were placed on this earth so perfectly, that everything feels normal with no sign of suspicion that could alter the vision of life. This movie also brings a sense of paranoia, by feeling watched at all times and to confuse the people in one’s life as actors, just like in the movie. Of course, those are just the temporary effects of watching such a movie, as with any other movie that alters the thought process. It seems as if the creator of the show, Christof, really wanted to prove that the world he created is safe and considered...
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...What is Cooking Show? A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such asIron Chef or "Junior Masterchef") are intended simply for entertainment. What is Cooking Show? A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all intermediate stages of cooking. These shows are often intended to be at least partly educational, as the host teaches the viewing audience how to prepare different meals with each episode of the show; though some cooking shows (such asIron Chef or "Junior Masterchef") are intended simply for entertainment. What is Cooking Show? A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience...
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...While writing about the various power players in history, I developed the theory that the source of their success could almost always be traced to one single skill or unique quality that separated them from others. For Napoleon, it was his remarkable ability to absorb a massive amount of detail and organize it in his mind. This allowed him to almost always know more than his rival generals about what was going on. After observing Fifty and talking to him about his past, I decided that the source of his power is his utter fearlessness. This quality does not manifest itself in yelling or obvious intimidation tactics. Any time Fifty acts that way in public it is pure theater. Behind the scenes, he is cool and calculating. His lack of fear is displayed in his attitude and his actions. He has seen and lived through too many dangerous encounters on the streets to be remotely fazed by anything in the corporate world. If a deal is not to his liking, he will walk away and not care. If he needs to play a little rough and dirty with an adversary, he goes at it without a second thought. He feels supreme confidence in himself. Living in a world where most people are generally timid and conservative, he always has the advantage of being willing to do more, to take risks, and to be unconventional. Coming from an environment in which he never expected to live past the age of twenty-five, he feels like he has nothing to lose, and this brings him tremendous...
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...Chapt 1 Assignment “The Cosby Show” Growing up in the 70's and 80's were very challenging. I came from a very traditional family, meaning both parents were in the home as well as all 7 of my siblings. My father worked hard and my mother stayed at home and raised us for a portion of that time. We often watched a lot of family oriented shows, “ Eight is Enough'', which was my mother's favorite.(I wonder why) Little House On The Prairie, The Jeffersons, etc. My personal favorite was the Cosby Show, although Little House on the Prairie was definitely in the running. One of the reasons I favor The Cosby Show is because it gave me hope. Growing up in the projects was not a joyful experience, although my parents did a great job with what they had. The Cosby Show depicted family in a very positive way. It provided an alternative to the stereotypical African American family. Unlike other black sitcoms such as “Good Times”, which always left you depressed after watching the show, “ The Jeffersons'', whose nanny was very loud and opinionated. The Huxtables were upper class people. Cliff Huxtable( Bill Cosby) was a doctor and his wife Claire( Phylicia Rashad) was a successful lawyer. The family structure was that of a nuclear unit or modern family. The gender roles of the parents were that of egalitarian. They were a two parent home with 5 children. They both balanced the responsibilities of supporting their children through work and quality time. The gender of the children were...
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...most academics can hope to explain. As James Lipton suggests in his interview with Dave Chappelle on the talk show Inside the Actor’s Studio, black comedy has been an important form of art for learning about the black condition. Comedians, such as Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, and Eddie Murphy are just a few of the black comedians that have used their art to provide those insights and induce change in society. The late Richard Pryor understood more so than others that in comedy he had “‘a unique vehicle’ at his disposal that he would be wise to employ for ‘meaningful expression’” and his declared successor, Dave Chappelle, did as well (Simpson 114). The influence of Chappelle and Pryor’s comedy on the American audience has been a highly researched topic. The influence of the most recent and still dominant figure, Chappelle, has yet to be entirely seen, as many of his performances are hardly a decade old. It is undisputed among scholars and critics, however, that, like Pryor, Chappelle through his art “has made us look at ourselves and laugh at ourselves,” stimulating an open discussion about a multitude of issues including race (Lipton). Therefore, through their comedic art, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle, whose backgrounds shape their comedy, offer important insights and critiques of racial stereotypes. Their jokes help show which racial issues have improved as well as show which problems have remained a...
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...A very thought provoking movie, the Truman show is not only funny but emotionally draining. It gives us a clear picture how the world, blindly revolve around reality television shows. It’s a moral story with visuals that illustrates the extent to which people can go to in order to meet demands for mere entertainment. The movie is smartly directed with unique styles and the script is well acted by Jim Carrey, who plays Truman Burbank, and the rest of the cast. This movie with unknown elements in the exposition will make you paranoid, as you feel great empathy towards Truman throughout the entire movie and curious as to what will happen to him next. The movie lead us into the ups and downs of Truman’s life. Moreover, the Music of the 90’s that was used did justice in representing the feelings of Truman at certain specific moments. It is a heart touching movie and each one of us has something we can relate to. There’s always a time in life where you feel people, or someone, is making use of you. Especially if it’s someone who you love, it hurts. You feel betrayed. That’s exactly how Truman felt. He was heartbroken, so much to the extent that he even threatened to kill his ‘so-called’ wife. However he choose to deal this issue very smartly, determined to find the truth he fooled the cameras and escaped to the ‘made-up’ seas! In the end we see no element of revenge coming from him. Perhaps, we can also relate to Truman as we live in a time of routines. We often will our lives...
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...moral decision? In the 1994 movie Quiz Show directed by Robert Redford we see this question answered. The movie tells the story of the 1950’s game show 21 and the scandal that surrounded it. Looking at it form the prospective of Societies the philosopher who lived his life on the basis of being honest and true theses men were all in the wrong. At the start of the movie we see how the producers of the game show operated and how they enticed participants to do what they want. “Would you like to make $20,000” this seems like a loaded question. Why would anyone say no? The answer is not yes, but should be “how?”. Money is a powerful force that make people do crazy things. As we see throughout the movie contestants on the show work with the producers to be able to keep moving on. Without this help contestants would lose and in turn producers would also lose, the network and then the sponsors. By keeping the same contestant on show money can meet made for everyone. One man in particular Charles Van Doren has been on the show longer than anyone else. he has been cheating and lying so that he can stay on the show and make...
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...laid groundwork for Blacks and became more reality based. Blacks continued to have been, and often still, portrayed in a negative way on TV. There was some improvement of stereotypical images. In the fall of 1984, a new show arrived on the scene by the name of “The Cosby Show”. Few could have predicted that ''The Cosby Show" would become a phenomenon. Loosely based on Cosby's own family, it was the highest-rated show for five consecutive...
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...techniques… In the film ‘The Truman Show’, director Peter Weir shows many ways of manipulation through film techniques such as camera angles, background music and camera frames. He shows in the film how a viewer can be so mindlessly absorbed by others surrounding them on television. The director also shows how easily our minds can be involved and enwrapped in a storyline or plot, and how this can affect the way we see things and how our perspective on reality can change from this film manipulation. Some of the films techniques that are used to draw in an audience or manipulate them are screen shots such as close ups, extreme close-ups, mid-shots, long shots and extreme long shots. Generally in TV shows such as ‘Big Brother’ or ‘American Idol’, close ups are used to show deep emotion. For example, in ‘The Truman Show’, Truman is given a close-up when reuniting with his Father after many years of separation. In this close-up Truman appears to be crying with happiness and loss, which in many cases would influence the way the audience feels, possibly making some cry of happiness or making them feel overwhelmed with emotion. Close-ups are just one of the few types of screen shots that draw in an audience and are a much-used technique in the film ‘The Truman Show’. Another film technique commonly used in ‘The Truman Show’ is music. Music plays an important role in films to lighten, deepen or strengthen the mood of a scene. During ‘The Truman Show’, we see Christof often conducting...
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...Now we come to the very complicating part of being part of an equestrian Sims 3 community. It's one of the most difficult aspects of running a sim stable or farm. Horse shows! There are many different kinds of horse shows. There are fun shows, western shows and english shows. These are the three main categories of shows. In each main board are sub-boards or threads that will detail what kind of shows hosted by different players may contain. Examples are, english shows will consist of show-jumping, dressage, racing, saddleseat and disciplines using an english saddle. Western shows, in example will consist of disciplines using a western saddle such as western pleasure, barrel racing, cow roping and the like. Keep in mind, english and western...
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...Finally, Truman's world is loaded with numerous media issues as he has no private life, there is product placement in his reality, and the show is continually attempting to conceal their mistakes in the show. Truman's show is a 24 hour appear. Meaning, anybody at any given time can watch him. During the film, it indicates numerous individuals watching the show. A few people cry over the show, while others get excessively amped up for it. If one somehow managed to think about this, it is extremely dreadful and agitating. Anybody can simply watch what he is doing and see him. He has no privacy. When Truman does find out about this he can create fears that he is always being viewed. Those feelings of dread would then be able to keep him from...
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...The Puppeteers of The Truman Show In The Truman Show, Truman, and to an extent the residents of Seahaven, are under the control of Christof and the viewers. Like the the prisoners in Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” Truman believes his reality is the true reality. Despite the actors and the illegitimacy of Seahaven, Truman does not know anything else, must like the prisoners only know the shadows on the wall. When Truman begins to realize the fraudulence of his world, he begins his journey to enlightenment. Like the prisoner, he exits the dome and sees the real world for the first time long after he has accepted the realities of his world. For most of his life Truman was a puppet to Christof and, in a way, to the viewers. Since TV is all about...
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...The Great Show of Minstrelsy The Minstrel Show presented us with a strange, fascinating and awful phenomenon of the twentieth century. It was a genre of music that would make its performers, whether black or white; smear burnt cork on their faces so they would have the appearance of an African American. According to the American Red Star Newspaper, “No matter how dark a person may have been, they still had to apply the black cork to their faces” (Afro). Minstrelsy was a product of its time that brought a new combination of musical individualities together. Minstrel Shows were a combination of singing, moving around, sometimes even dancing, and instrumental music that exemplified the discrimination against African Americans. Minstrel Shows had qualities that were brought into popular music and made its mark as distinctively American. They had an irreverent attitude that cared very little about the well-mannered society. Minstrel Shows were not for children or elders who believed that it is very important to be polite and elegant in everyday life. The singers sang as though they did not know English very well and as if they were uneducated; this was their way of playing out the African American stereotype of being not very smart and not knowing simple etiquette. In “Dixie” it is clear that Dan Emmett sang as if he were a stereotypical uneducated African American, and sang as if he was a poor speaker that did not know English very well. On the contrary, Campbell says, “Minstrel...
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...The Truman Show is a motion picture in which the protagonist, Truman Burbank, is broadcasted on live television for the entire world to see. At the age of thirty, Truman discovers that his entire life had been documented from birth and that every individual that he has encountered throughout his lifetime in the town of Seahaven was simply an actor, under the control of Christof, the director. This film raises many issues, including power, itself, more specifically the power of the media, as well as overall morality. The entire purpose of the production was to make a statement about power. One of the most prominent concepts the motion picture attempts to criticize is the evident trend in our society regarding major corporations and their influence. Why is it that in today’s world, if a corporation has enough money, fame, or popularity, it essentially has the potential to entirely dominate the will, rights, actions, identity, and...
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...In the movie The Truman Show, Meryl Burbank is the wife of a man who is a star who doesn’t even know he is a “star”. She plays an important role in keeping her husband Truman unaware that the life he lives is all a part of the longest running TV show, a TV show that is all about Truman. Truman was chosen out of six unwanted pregnancies to be the first human legally adopted by a corporation, Meryl whose real name is Hannah Gill is actually an actor in the TV show. Initially she plays the part well, but over time her suspicious acts have made Truman doubt her. Her goal is to make Truman truly believe that his world is perfect and it is real. Even though Meryl knows that her marriage is all a big misrepresentation, she still is able to make Truman...
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