Prime Time 5, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Text: The Truman Show 1 Reading: Fake world a) Read the following extract from a film script. b) Look at the underlined passages and explain them. The movie The Truman Show is about a character called Truman Burbank who has lived his whole life in Seahaven, a fake island town where the other people are all actors. He alone has no idea that his world is a giant studio, where everything is a high-tech illusion controlled by the director Christof. Truman has no idea that he is filmed day and night and is the star of a television reality show. He thinks he is happy but cannot forget a girl called Sylvia who disappeared from his life when he was seventeen. The following extract from the script is a flashback. 9–10 2 Questions a) What are Truman’s reactions to what Sylvia says? b) How does the man treat Sylvia? c) Why do you think Sylvia wants to warn Truman? FLUSHING MEADOW PARK. EVENING. Truman and Sylvia sit next to the fountain. They kiss. Truman starts to say something, but she covers his lips with her finger. Sylvia: In a minute someone’s going to come and stop me talking to you. Truman: (looking around the empty park) Who? There’s no one here. Sylvia: (looking over her shoulder nervously) There isn’t much time. Just listen. Everybody’s pretending. Everybody but you. (pointing to the buildings on the horizon) Look. You think anybody lives there? It’s all for you, Truman. A show. The eyes are everywhere. Truman: (protesting) Eyes?Where? Sylvia: Everywhere, disguised …Truman, they’re going to fill your head with lies. You’ve got to make yourself deaf. Suddenly a car roars towards the fountain. Sylvia: (scared) I told you, Truman! The car stops and a man jumps out. He pulls the frightened Sylvia to her feet. Truman: (shocked) Hey! Man: (to Sylvia) Get in the car! Truman: (to the man) Who are you?! Man: I’m her father! Sylvia: No he’s not! He’s just saying that! The man throws Sylvia into his car. Truman tries to fight the man. Truman: Leave her alone! The man pushes Truman away and Truman falls to the ground. The man slams shut the passenger door of the car. Man: (to Sylvia) I told you not to come here anymore! Sylvia: (calling out from the car) Don’t listen, Truman. Make yourself deaf. Come find me. Man: (to Truman, getting into the car) Don’t bother! We’re moving to Australia. The car roars away. Truman stares after it. 46 Media-mad 4 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv