Daily Dialogue — May 20, 2015

“That one’s for free.”

— The Truman Show (1998), written by Andrew Niccol

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Breaking the 4th Wall. Today’s suggestion by Michael Waters.

Trivia: The Trumania bit, where Jim Carrey draws on the mirror with soap and acts strange, was completely improvised by Carrey. In another take he drew long curly hair and a dress.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Michael asks an interesting question: “Can a protagonist turn to a camera without knowing its there and still be performing a fourth wall moment? If so, then this one’s for free.” Indeed, it’s a super meta-moment with Truman doing his thing… staring straight at us… and the guys in the control center… and Truman is either aware there’s someone watching him… or not… we’re not entirely sure at this point. An interesting variation on breaking the 4th wall.