Talk:Time Out of Joint
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"In the end he heroically decides to embrace the delusion for the sake of humanity."
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[edit] Truman it is not.
You see, this is why this "allusions" section is dumb. People take one coincidental feature, and try to justify a connection. You might as well say that Pearl Harbor alludes to Homer's Odyssey because they both feature boats.
Secondly, the Truman Show's plotline was lifted from a rash of reality television programs, not a book most hollywood types have never heard of.
Third, if a prefabricated world is all it takes to be mentioned in this section then we should also add The Real World, The Surreal Life, Scare Tactics, and even an episode of South Park (believe it or not). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 139.102.241.40 (talk) 02:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
This is what annoys me about wikipedia: Nitpicking people. The similarities are so obvious between the novel and the movie and yet you just delete it? And believe me: More Hollywood types have read the novel than you think. Truman lives in a world made to appear real to keep him docile and under surveillance. In the novel, Ragle Gumm is being watched and kept docile in a fake small town until one day he escapes from it, just like Truman. And yet you do not see the similarities? Give me a break! Sliponshoe
- Nevertheless, the claims made in this section are unverifiable. Without quotations from the authors, we do not know from where they drew their inspiration.
- If this section was made just to list incidental similarities between unrelated works (regardless of the authors' intentions), then it breaks like, a hundred wiki rules, including Original Research and Verifiability. Further, the information is trivial (you yourself said it was "obvious") and not suitable for an encyclopedia. The claims in the section are also arguable.
- So, I'm going to delete the whole section. kthxbai ^_^
- 139.102.239.12 00:17, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Marilyn Monroe
Why is she an anachronism in 1959? That was the year (according to the monroe article) that she made "Some like it hot"! NOT knowing who she is is the anachronism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.216.146.105 (talk) 19:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
