🎥 Anon Theatre: The Truman Show (1998)
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May I suggest The Game starring Michael Douglas for a future Anon Theatre thread? It’s a great one that flies under the radar.
“Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his father's Scrooge-like footsteps. On Nicholas's 48th birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide), his younger, free-spirited brother Conrad (Sean Penn) blows into town and gives Nicholas a special gift for "the man who has everything" -- a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that constructs games custom-fit for each participant to provide, as CRS salesman Jim Feingold (James Rebhorn) cryptically puts it, "whatever is lacking." Nicholas's secure life begins a downhill slide as CRS masterminds a series of elaborate pranks, harmless at first, that quickly become malicious and life-threatening. Stripped of financial resources and convinced that he can trust no one, Nicholas begins to wonder if CRS is a front for a more covert operation, and if the game is in fact an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. Determined to fight back alone, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to "pull back the curtain and meet the wizard."
I worked downtown SF when they filmed this. One night I watched them film a scene where they were backing a car up in front of the Palace Hotel. Over and over and over again. It made me realize just how boring the profession could be. (I looked for the scene in the movie and it was literally about three seconds.)
I learned this while shooting a 6 minute commercial. Took all day to shoot. Very tedious work. Also makes you appreciate how talented good filmmakers are.