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I rate The Truman Show (1998) ★★★★★★★★☆☆. #ratings https://trakt.tv/movies/the-truman-show-1998 #TheTrumanShow #trakt
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ya hear they canceled the Truman show?
Jim Carrey's Secret Hand Signal
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New fraud called OPCOPRO builds a fake AI‑run world like #TheTrumanShow, uses WhatsApp groups and app stores to pull in victims with fake KYC and bogus investment promises ⚠️
Read: https://hackread.com/opcopro-scam-ai-fake-whatsapp-groups-fraud/
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It's going to be hilarious when I see people walking around with ChatGPT whispering ads in their ears just like #TheTrumanShow.
Dear God, humanity, sometimes you do make it difficult for one to feel sorry for you. :P
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Comedy #Oscars #TheTrumanShow 10 Comedy Performances That Deserved To Be Oscar-Nominated, but Weren't http://dlvr.it/TP4ZRT
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Jim Carrey honoré : un César d’Honneur pour une carrière hors normes
L’Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma et Canal+ ont annoncé ce mercredi que Jim Carrey recevra un César d’Honneur lors de la 51ᵉ Cérémonie des César, le 27 février 2026, à l’Olympia. L’acteur canadien, figure majeure du cinéma moderne, sera ainsi célébré pour une carrière exceptionnelle, marquée par sa polyvalence et son audace artistique.
Une reconnaissance française pour un artiste mondial
Une annonce prestigieuse
La nouvelle a été officialisée ce matin : Jim Carrey sera l’invité d’honneur de la cérémonie des César 2026. À cette occasion, l’Académie du Cinéma a salué un comédien « rare, visionnaire et multirécompensé », dont la créativité et la liberté de jeu ont profondément marqué le septième art.
PublicitésUn César d’Honneur déjà mythique
Ce trophée symbolique s’ajoute à une liste prestigieuse de récipiendaires, parmi lesquels Julia Roberts, Penélope Cruz, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett ou encore Christopher Nolan. La France confirme ainsi l’importance de Jim Carrey dans l’histoire contemporaine du cinéma.
Un parcours fulgurant et singulier
L’année 1994, tremplin vers la légende
Né au Canada, Jim Carrey débute dans le stand-up et se fait remarquer à la télévision dans In Living Color. Sa notoriété explose en 1994 grâce à trois films cultes sortis la même année : Ace Ventura : Pet Detective, The Mask et Dumb and Dumber. Une performance inédite qui fait de lui le premier acteur à tenir l’affiche de trois longs-métrages n°1 au box-office en douze mois.
PublicitésDe la comédie au drame avec brio
Rapidement, Carrey démontre qu’il ne se limite pas aux personnages exubérants. Il séduit la critique avec des rôles dramatiques marquants dans The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind et Man on the Moon. Ces interprétations lui valent deux Golden Globes et une reconnaissance internationale.
Une carrière marquée par la diversité
Du blockbuster au cinéma d’auteur
Jim Carrey a construit une filmographie d’une grande richesse, alternant comédies populaires comme Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar ou How the Grinch Stole Christmas, et films plus intimistes ou expérimentaux. Plus récemment, il a retrouvé le succès auprès d’un nouveau public grâce à son rôle dans la franchise Sonic the Hedgehog.
PublicitésUn artiste aux multiples talents
Sa créativité dépasse largement le cadre du cinéma. Auteur du roman Memoirs and Misinformation, classé parmi les best-sellers du New York Times, Carrey est également reconnu comme artiste visuel et a exposé ses œuvres à l’international. Le documentaire Jim & Andy : The Great Beyond, nommé aux Emmy Awards, a par ailleurs révélé une facette plus intime de son parcours.
Une reconnaissance déjà marquée par la France
Un Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
En 2010, Jim Carrey avait déjà reçu des mains du ministre de la Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, l’insigne de Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Cette distinction française soulignait déjà son apport majeur au cinéma et à l’art contemporain.
PublicitésUn artiste universel et intemporel
Au fil des décennies, Jim Carrey a su toucher toutes les générations. Qu’il fasse rire aux éclats, qu’il bouleverse ou qu’il provoque une réflexion, son travail rappelle que le cinéma peut être à la fois divertissement, questionnement et émotion. Son César d’Honneur vient consacrer une carrière d’audace et de renouvellement.
Le César d’Honneur qui sera remis à Jim Carrey le 27 février 2026 à l’Olympia symbolise bien plus qu’un hommage : il célèbre une œuvre protéiforme, entre rire et gravité, entre cinéma et arts visuels. À travers ses personnages inoubliables et son engagement artistique, Jim Carrey reste l’un des visages les plus emblématiques du septième art contemporain.
#acteurCanadien #Canal_ #César2026 #CésarDHonneur #Cinéma #EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind #GoldenGlobes #JimCarrey #OlympiaParis #TheMask #TheTrumanShow
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Truman was digging the hole that he used to escape 10 minutes into the movie
He always knew, the full movie was him hiding that he knows, and executing his escape plan.
He was aware before the movie started.
Why did he start to reveal that he knew? He was looking, checking to see if anyone else was stuck there too, and needed help escaping.
He thought his best friend maybe, and then his best friend lied to his face.
Edit: A lot of his antics was literally him testing what they do in specific situations; Can he drive off? Bus? etc.
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Aug 13 : Cerulean Blue* as building or Structure 🔵
#Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#TheTrumanShow (1998)
Truman Burbank realises he's not sailing the seas but in a building with sky blue walls.* Light, bright blue with a subtle greenish tint, often described as a sky blue
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Et encore , ce fut un dimanche productif #thetrumanshow #peterweir #moviescenerecreation #gouache #gouachepainting #gouacheart #drawing
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The Truman Show has aged well and is still a good movie!
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@lemgandi @brainsmatter
We must do the obvious experiment.Zuckerberg isolated from human intercourse but with as much AI as can be provided. 10 years should do it - extendable semi-indefinitely if he insists.
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Bowling Green came up last night.
The place has a somewhat #TheTrumanShow name, and had #EdgarCayce as a resident apparently.
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𝐅ilm de la 𝐒oirée
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 en 1998
*Culte, original, drôle et émouvant ! Cette fable dystopique et irréaliste , un pure chef d'oeuvre!
#TheTrumanShow #PeterWeir #JimCarrey #LauraLinney #EdHarris #NataschaMcElhone
#drame #policier #classic #cinema #films #culte #cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale@Cinegenres cinegenres.com @cinegenres.Shorts @cinegenres-actrices
𝐅ilm 𝐂omplet:
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Discover Jim Carrey's leap from comedy to drama in The Truman Show, a career-defining role shaped by his collaboration with visionary director Peter Weir.
#JimCarrey #TheTrumanShow #PeterWeir #1990sMovies #1990s #90s #90sMovies #Movies #MovieNews #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #Celebrities #Celebrity #CelebrityNews #CelebrityInterviews
https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2025/01/25/jim-carreys-unexpected-journey-to-the-truman-show/
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Woman Discovers That She May Be Living In #TheTrumanShow
https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/woman-discovers-living-in-truman-show-couples-therapy-new-york-video
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Jour 07 - The Truman Show
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@dangillmor
Thanks for tuning in to the Dallas Morning News Show where Trump is going OK.Later in the show we've got Ron Dwyer, the author of I'm OK, You're OK chatting with Barry about Trump being OK.
But first Kirsty talks with Dr Wilson about how getting Long Covid is OK.
Over to you Kirsty ...
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Love, learning, and all the rest: Fictional libraries in “Fruits Basket” and beyond
In the third episode of Fruits Basket, an unamed schoolgirl confesses to Yuki in the library and he pushes her off.Before watching Fruits Basket, an anime which mixes the romantic comedy, slice-of-life, and supernatural genres, I knew there was a librarian character (voiced by Sayumi Watabe). I was not aware, however, that libraries would have an important role in the series, at least in a few episodes. In this post, I’ll examine the scenes in Fruits Basket, and connect it to other posts on this blog.
In the third episode of Fruits Basket, a schoolgirl confesses to Yuki Soma (voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki) in the library and he pushes her off. She is disappointed, saying he is closed off to most people and asks why he can’t let her in. The truth is that if women hug him, then he turns into an animal, a rat to be specific. The schoolgirl, understandably runs off, sad and likely crying, leaving him standing in the library. As it turns out, Tohru Honda (voiced by Manaka Iwami ), who is living at his house, tells him later that she is happy that he let her in, making him happy. The impact of this library scene is a strong one, even though the scene is pretty short.
In some ways, I can relate this to a few issues of the romantic slice-of-life webcomic, Literary Link. The protagonist, Faye, gets a community service job at the local public library’s literary club, due to a fighter in school, and meets a girl named Atlas. As would be expected, Faye falls in love with Atlas, after she teases her a bit, and agrees to keep volunteering at the literary club. Although Atlas isn’t sure if Faye will return, she does, making her happy, especially when she brings cupcakes, and Atlas bandages Faye up from an earlier fight. [1]
Literary Link and Fruits Basket are relatively different from other depictions of romance within libraries that I’ve noted on this blog. In The Truman Show (1998) and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), which I wrote about in the early days of this blog, the libraries play a big role in the stories of each film. In the first film, it is pivotal moment for Truman Burbank, as he meets the woman he loves, Sylvia, and runs out from the library with her to a secluded beach. In the second film, Harold remembers how he met his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, in the library. Both of them, in line with the fact the film is a stoner comedy, smoke pot in the library, even though it isn’t allowed.
There are many other examples of love, and romance, within libraries, whether Luz’s crush on Amity (which is later canonized) in The Owl House, Sophia beginning to confess her love to Catarina in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, an almost-kiss between Shizuma and Nagisa in the Strawberry Panic! episode “Etoile”, and Fumi and Sugimoto kissing in an episode of Whispered Words (“Adolescence is Beautiful”). There are other instances of love being expressed inside of library walls, including a bun-wearing librarian shushing male students who are expressing their romance in the library.
Student librarian checks out materials for TohruThe second time that libraries appear in the series is a short scene at the end of the fourth episode, when Tohru checks out books from the library about vegetable gardens and martial arts, so she can learn about what Yuki and Kyo like and dislike. She hopes to find “hidden sides” of them. Not long after, she ends up dropping these books, dramatically, when she learns that her Grandpa’s place is now ready for her to move back in. As it turns out, she doesn’t want to go back, but she decides she has to, although she is later saved by Yuki and Kyo in the following episode. This library scene has the first librarian character in the series, the aforementioned librarian voiced by Sayumi Watabe. This librarian is a student library worker. She checks out the books for Tohru.
Such librarians are not unique in anime. I mentioned many of them in my post back in April, including one protagonist, Haruki, in the striking and moving anime film, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. He ends up helping another protagonist, Sakura Yamauchi, who’s disabled and uses a wheelchair. He becomes her good friend and later her love interest. She works in the library alongside him. This example differs from school-age student librarians, library workers to be precise, who are almost exclusively female, shown in various series. [2]
Some of the more prominent and recurring student librarians include Hisami Hishishii in multiple episodes of R.O.D. the TV, protagonist Hanamaru Kunikida in Love Live! Sunshine!!, Yamada and Kosuda in B Gata H Kei, Azusa Aoi in Whispered Words, Fumi Manjōme in Aoi Hana / Sweet Blue Flowers, Fumio Murakumi in Girl Friend Beta, Himeko Agari in Komi Can’t Communicate, Chiyo Tsukudate in Strawberry Panic!, Sumireko Sanshokunin a.k.a. “Pansy” in Oresuki, and Anne and Grea in Manaria Friends. Of these characters, they are often said to be quiet, shy, hardworking, diligent, lonely, sweet, socially awkward, or introverted. There are exceptions like the lustful and flirtatious Yamada, or Pansy who has strong charisma and observation skills. Many also have yuri subtext integral to their characters either directly or indirectly. [3]
A unique character is Rin Shima in Laid Back-Camp. She fits with the overall theme of iyashikei, a genre of anime which is “healing,” shying away from romance or action in favor of “meaningful connections with family and friends, and finding joy in the minutiae of life,” as Marley Crusch of Polygon put it. Shima is further described by Crusch as a girl who enjoys camping, quiet, reserved personality, and an introvert, although she becomes better at talking with others by the time of the 2nd season. [4]
This differs from more professional, yet unvoiced, ones in episodes of Akebi’s Sailor Uniform, Kin-iro Mosaic, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Maria Watches Over Us, Is the Order a Rabbit, Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, and The Dangers in My Heart. Kanina Shizuka in Maria Watches Over Us, is another example, but she is a supporting character. This connects to what I wrote in August, noting that within workplaces, there are unspoken/spoken “common standards of professional appearance” which penalize those with “tattoos and piercings, connecting with societally-sanctioned standards of appearance, which can be harsher on women.
In anime, all the characters, with stated or presumed professional credentials, in this post would be called librarians and assistant librarians, according to the landmark Library Act in Japan. In any case, one must continually be critical of what Fobazi Ettarh has defined as vocational awe, a set of values, ideas, and assumptions that “librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in beliefs that libraries…are inherently good…sacred, and…beyond critique.” With that, my post comes to a close. Until next week, where my post will examine the profound lack of libraries in Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians and stronger fictional depictions.
© 2023-2024 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Notes
[1] “Literary Club” [Issue 1]; Literary Link, May 6, 2023; “What’s her name?” [Issue 2], Literary Link, May 12, 2023; “Ethically Questionable” [Issue 3], Literary Link, May 27, 2023; “Careful with your face” [Issue 4], Literary Link, Jun. 10, 2023; “Overthinking” [Issue 5], Literary Link, Jun. 24, 2023.
[2] I’m referring to, in part, Nagisa Yasaka in My Roommate is a Cat, Nagisa Yasaka (episode: “Ones Who Can’t Be Controlled” and “What Connects Us”), Aoi Uribe in Myself ; Yourself (episode “The Important Melody”), Hasegawa Sumika in Bernard-jou Iwaku a.k.a. Miss Bernard said, Kamiya in Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie (episode: “Cultural Festival I”), Sumireko Sanshokunin a.k.a. “Pansy” in Oresuki, Anne and Grea in Manaria Friends, and Female Student B (librarian) in Azumanga Daioh (episode 19 segment “Springtime of Life”).
[3] “Hisami Hishiishii,” Read or Die Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Hanamaru Kunikida,” Love Live Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Yamada,” B Gata H Kei Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Fumio Murakumi,” Yuri Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Agari Himeko,” Komi-San Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Chiyo Tsukudate,” Strawberry Panic! Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Sumireko Sanshokunin,” Oresuki Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Grea,” Yuri Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023; “Anne (Rage of Bagamut),” Yuri Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023.
[4] “Rin Shima,” Yuru Camp Wiki, accessed Jul. 4, 2023.
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The Tulip Show
(in which an innocent tulip begins to suspect the world is not as it seems!)
#BloomScrollAMovie #Tulip #TheTrumanShow
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Just finished watching The Truman Show (1998), will try to drop some thoughts or review in the comments. #justwatched #watched #cinemastodon #plex #whattowatch #moviedon https://trakt.tv/movies/the-truman-show-1998 #TheTrumanShow #trakt
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So my husband, myself and some friends have been hanging out getting some work done between watching films and videos whilst noshing on chips and vegan pizza.
We just finished watching #TheTrumanShow
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I'm rewatching #TheTrumanShow and how incredibly ahead of its time was this film?