How Legal is The Truman Show?
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- He's the star of the show but he doesn't know. In this video essay, I look into the hypothetical legalities of the Truman Show through the US legal framework. I'm not a lawyer but I do love the Truman Show and hypotheticals. Please let me know if I've missed anything in the comments.
0:00 Intro
1:26 The "Good"
4:21 The Bad
6:44 The Ugly
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I like how Truman is the first child to be legally adopted by a company and the first thing they do is trapping this kid in a studio and take his life away.
He probably had a better life than most people in this fake reality
the original family channel
Also, the way they said "First child to be adopted by a corporation" implies that there are more people who have been adopted by other corporations. I'm imagining the world outside Truman's dome to be filed with people like Community's "Subway", who exist solely to promote their parent corporation.
Good video. Some additional legal issues: 1. Wrongful imprisonment, 2. Illegal surveillance within Truman's house (a huge 4th amendment issue), 3. Illegal use of name and likeness after Truman became an adult. Paying him back wages is only part of the problem-they recorded and broadcast him without consent.
hes an actor and a property
@@myslef7636what’s the difference?/j
@@myslef7636but he isn’t, he’s the only real thing in the show.
@@myslef7636 To be an actor requires knowing he is acting, and signing a contract to act. Truman was abducted, and doesn't know the people around him are actors. The rules for acting do not apply.
13th Amendment
Indentured servitude is a form of slavery.
Another one is that Truman, although technically a resident of Hollywood, would never have been able to register to vote in the state of California, therefore denying him his lawful right to vote.
... Wouldn't they have had fake elections in their fake town though? They could easily put real people in real offices for state and federal level positions on his ballot.
Why would he not be able to vote? They can just set up a polling station with all the names of the actual candidates and say who won afterwards
@@Alucard-gt1zf what if a candidate vows for making the show illegal? They would still have to heavily censor campaigns and all that stuff
@DarthGTB and? They already do that, also pretty sure it's not illegal to censor your own TV stations
@@Alucard-gt1zf TV in the Truman Show is probably staged instead of censored. It could have real news, but it wouldn't be the same broadcast the free people have and some news would probably be delayed at least a day so they have time to stitch it together.
About voting, even if you broadcast to him the real candidates with their real propositions, that having to be censored for him would make his vote fake. Sure, many networks choose what they want to broadcast following their own bias, but in this case it would be evident and the network here has a monopoly on the information he receives. He can't switch to a channel that tells a different story.
I got my Bachelor's in Psychology and damn the first time I heard about the Little Albert experiment shook me to my core. Followups are limited but the "ratlike animals" he was traumatized of included pretty much any four legged mammal, including dogs and cats. He died at the age of 6 petrified of everything. His mother was compensated $1 for the experiment, an experiment that she did not consent to and was only informed of after the fact.
Me too actually! 🤜🤛 I ended up cutting a bit from the Little Albert section as I felt it was making an already pretty dark video even more grim.
@@the_flipside Hell yeah psychology bros~
But yeah it's a BRUTAL experiment and the fact that it was legal is heartwrecking
It should be pointed out that there is no conclusive proof the 6 year old was the Little Albert from the experiment. There is no proper trace of him left after he left the hospital. If the proposed 6-year-old, Douglas Merritte, was indeed Little Albert, it raises questions. Douglas died from hydrocephalus, and he most likely couldn't see very well at all, which contradicts the entire idea of the experiment. The original comment makes it sound like the experiment somehow led to the child's death, which is obviously not the case. There is nothing to show that Douglas was "petrified of everything", nor was I able to find anything about the $1 compensation. According to another theory, Little Albert is William Albert Banger (he was the appropriate age, his mother also worked at the hospital, he was called "Albert" his whole life thanks to his middle name, and his physical parameters matched the Little Albert descriptions), who died at the age of 87 and was perfectly fine except for his inexplicable antipathy towards dogs, which is hypothetically linked to the experiment. Don't get me wrong, that experiment was still pretty brutal. But it may not have ended up being THAT dark after all.
I thought the identity of ’Little Albert’ was unknown?
@@joomping-rng it was for a while but investigators have boiled it down to one, or both, of 2 people. I say or both because it’s entirely possible this “experiment” was performed on multiple kids, and given that everyone involved has now passed away, including both possible Albert’s, it’s impossible to ask them and verify further.
Probably also false imprisonment or whatever it is called in the US. Although the showrunners say he can leave at any time, that's not true, because they try to stop him with roadblocks, fear of water, lightning strikes etc.
Yeah in the US it's still imprisonment if they can leave but are being threatened
When Truman opened that door tho, it was freaking hype lol, it felt so satisfying to see him win
Wonder what he did when he got through the door? Did he wander behind the scenes for awhile? Like there's no way the door was directly to the outside so he must have been in the dome for awhile afterwards just trying to go through the maze of lighting and sound equipment stuff and random scaffolding.. did anyone help him? Would any of the show staff actually? They're all out of a job now that he is free and aware of the show..
@@BaconNuke I think that's the beauty of it, we don't know, he's free from the cameras, from being watched
The bigger question is, could such a show even get enough viewers to justify the massive expense of creating the show and how many seasons could it run, before people got tired of it?
True. lol Even the most watched show on TV of all time couldn't justify the kind of budget this show would require.
Like most celebrity TV shows like Big Brother, viewership drops off after about 4-7 days. So if this show was made real, it would of died 4 months in and costing the studio too much to keep running.
They probably snowballed the funding when he was a baby and at most they just needed to create a fake room, then a fake house, fake neighborhood and so on as he grew
Especially has unlike a reality show, where most things can be easily scripted to increase viewer interest (or at least attempt to), getting Truman to take specific decisions takes a lot more effort.
Ask the Kardashians
Even paradise is a prison if you can't leave.
Why would you want to leave a paradise in the first place?
If Earth was a paradise, would it be a prison? Since we can’t leave? (As of current technology)
@@lourensbadenhorst1659 because
@@lourensbadenhorst1659have you watched the Trueman show?
the quality of this essay is insane, keep up the great work
Thank you 🙏😊
Indeed
In Universe, the showrunners must of had hoops they went through just for the the shows existence. It's is possible they had an exit plan incase Truman wanted to leave the show and they couldn't stop him. He was the Star of the show, so they may have kept a good actors salary for him, saved up over the years. possibly to reduce in universe legal issues. They had many actors on the show so paying Truman indirectly wouldn't make much of a difference.
> It's is possible they had an exit plan incase Truman wanted to leave the show and they couldn't stop him.
They did. It was drowning him.
Also children have limited working hours and I imagine he was filmed for longer than those
Truman sounds like the best-treated child actor right now.
True, the real horror is in real life he’d be abused to no end by people like Dan Schneider or similar.
The closest we’ve come to Trueman is probably Japan’s “A Life Of Prizes” And its tortured contestant, Natsubi.
And that managed to be infinitely more f’ed up.
Woah, I never heard of it until you mentioned it, bizarre story
I want to hear more of this illegal camping story
I might make a video about the American summer camp industry in the future! 😄
@@the_flipside cool. I’ll sub.
For anyone wondering what would happen if this was real life, look up the chris chan documentary, it's rhe closest to a real life Truman show we will ever get
I most certainly would not advice looking up anything involved with Chris Chan
The show “jury duty” is basically Truman show
For real though the Albert experiments were absolutely insane and morally reprehensible
Im going to need a video on that camp
I’m pretty sure that this movie freaked everybody out so badly that a new fear was born where people would suspect that their life was scripted or they were constantly being watched and broadcasted. It was called ‘Truman Syndrome’.
This is why the show Jury Duty was so messed up
It was really funny though.
the guy was pretty chill about it though
Bro hasn't seen the Joe schmo show💀
Yeah jury duty was inspired by the Joe schmo show
Honestly tho the ppl in those shows usually ain't too angry about it cuz they get money after and it's no worse than a yt prank video (a normal one not one of those creepy ones lol)
Bro wtf you only have 357 sub?! Dude you have an amazing voice, good editing and a good script! You are sooo underrated
Thank you for your very kind words 🙏
I was always curious about this while watching it, really good video
Great video! Really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! 😊
i’m surprised this only has 300 views, i hope it blows up!!
Over 800 now
2k!!
Yeah 75k views
I’m surprised that this channel doesn’t have a lot more subscribers!
Also, I just find 5:45 way too funny lol 😂, i wish there was story time about that camp
Thank you! Yes in the future I think I'll definitely be making a video about summer camps in the US and the many legal loopholes they jump through 😮💨🤟
@@the_flipside Looking forward to it!
Interesting video keep up the quality and you make it
Thank you, I'll try 🤟
Nice work on this video
Thank you 😊
I think it could be argued that the company that runs the Truman Show is a de facto company town, meaning that it qualifies as a government entity. So that would include a whole lot of 4th amendment violations for all the secret filming inside his home.
The cat in the hat cut in is perfect 😂😂
I rewatched The Truman Show after I finished Jury Duty, and it hit even harder this time!
i legit thought this was a big famous channel but
its shocking that this video's quality was very good but the channel is small
Thank you 😭🤟
In all likely good, they could prove sufficient education given they have video of his school years. This is important because a corporation of this size and sophistication would have had him sign an employment contract when he got his insurance job. This contract would have likely included permissions for his real job of being Truman. Similarly his college contract likely had similar fineprint and legalese.
Could it be said he signed under duress? Maybe. But they have a lot of footage showing that he made active choices and had many happy moments in his life.
I'm betting no one goes to jail, but Truman does get very rich. And dies alone in a mansion in a constant state of paranoia.
Jury Duty is like real Truman Show, but all is legal
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Amazing video man. Hope you hit it big in the algo ❤
Thank you 🙏🤟
Also, in this version of the world it's perfectly legal for a corporation to adopt a child and keep him in the dark while they broadcast his life to television viewers globally. It's not the same earth we live on.
5:10 - They can definitely pay for expenses reasonably related to Truman's welfare (e.g. food, clothing, etc.) before he turned 18. They *might* be allowed to pay for the whole production, but that's much more of a stretch. Once he turns 18, this all gets much harder to justify as well, because the corporation can no longer argue that it was acting with any sort of parental discretion, and so they probably cannot expense anything other than actual food and rent. But even that becomes problematic because the Fair Labor Standards Act sets a number of complicated restrictions on when and how you are allowed to deduct those things, and it is not at all obvious that this scenario even fits those rules in the first place.
The FLSA mandates double overtime for anyone working more than 80 hours in a week. If we assume that Truman was working 24/7, then they owe him (at least) $7.25 an hour for the first 40 hours of each week, then 1.5x base pay for the next 40 hours, and then 2x for the remaining 88 hours, for a grand total of almost $1900 per week, or almost $100k per year. If the state sets a higher minimum wage, then all of those numbers go up, obviously. Now, it is somewhat plausible that his "life insurance" job was paying better than that, assuming it's skilled white-collar labor. But that's not good enough, because overtime pay is not properly calculated based on minimum wage. It is calculated from a person's negotiated or actual base pay. If Truman was told he'd be paid (say) $20/hr for the fake job, then the judge might decide to use that as his base pay for the (real) acting work, and redo all of those calculations from there, netting Truman a huge windfall. If it was on a salary basis, then the judge could convert it into an hourly rate based on the number of hours actually or customarily worked (which was on TV, so obviously discoverable). The resulting wage claim, over at least Truman's entire adult life, would be quite large, and possibly bankrupt the production company.
definitely deserves more than 300 views
This is great, underrated
This was a really interesting video! I love the Truman sh9w and Ill definetely be checking out your channel!
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Subbed. keep it up. Your gonna make it!
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I wonder what those cars were thinking during the sandwalk
This is a really cool video good job
Thank you 🙏
I genuinely think that The Truman Show might be one of the scariest horror films ever made!
This will pop off maybe
this channel will be BIG!!!!
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I have been waiting for a video like this for so long! Thank you so much for this video
The pleasure is mine. Glad I could help 🤠
@@the_flipside yess!!! i was waiting for a deep dive on the movie, i thought no one would do it, but you were the first! yay
@@the_flipside you also forgot about the paper work, so his family (when he was under the age of 18 or 13) had to sign the paper work but he is older and he can't sign a paper without knowing what it was (or putting in invisible ink)
congrats on 800 subs!
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200 subs yet u released this banger
Thank you kind commenter
I'm impressed there was no mention of The Joe Schmo Show.
dudem this is GREAT.
Thank you my dude 😎
high quality video I hope its not AI since you only have 500 subs but either way I wanna hear that summercamp story lmaoo
Thanks, there's no AI here! Not now or ever 😁
Jury Duty also felt pretty damn Truman-esque
I'd actually never heard of that until now, but it sounds very interesting! Would you recommend?
@@the_flipside Absolutely! It's very interesting. Some of the humor was more crude than I like, but the premise made it worth it. The best was actually the interviews with the actors behind the scenes.
Added to my watchlist 😎🤟
Yeah but in reality it lasted less than 3 weeks and the guy was such a good sport about it all that they paid him 100 grand after it was over. Now he's in commercials with the actors from Suits.
We need Legal Eagle involved
I would love to hear his take on it
Watching the video I didn't even realize you had 300 subs, the production quality is just top tier! Subbed man, you will make it big 🔥
Thank you so much 🙏
w video man yous should more like this on films etc
Thank you, yeah I want to make more on films 😁
@@the_flipside yes wwww
Fun fact, we all live in a truman esc type show here on earth
i had no idea that we children in the united states have no say in court and now i'm scared
Sou brasileiro e meu inglês é bem ruim, mas seu conteúdo de alguma forma me alcançou e eu AMEI todo o vídeo! Espero que cresça bastante!
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Great stuff! Sub #300 of many to come
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dude this is such a dope video i sincerely hope you become bigger and can keep making vids like this :)
Thank you, that really is so wonderful to hear 🥲
how do you have so few subs, this was quality i expect from someone with 6 figures in the sub count...
How do you only have 776 subscribers.. this is one of the highest quality videos I've seen on CZcams. Wow. Happy to be your 777th! Keep up the great work, thanks for the watch!
Thank you, that means a lot! 🙏 Hopefully you'll be lucky #777! :)
for a channel with such little subscribers its a great video
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The big difference between said summer camp and the Truman Show production is that you agreed to the conditions of your employment. Truman, however, never agreed to his continued employment in adulthood and that would clasify him as a slave, something not only illegal, but unconstitutional under the 14th amendment.
hold up, 962 subs? I thought I'm watching like a 500k subs channel, keep it up bro you def gonna blow up if you keep it up
Thank you, truly! Hopefully I can keep it up moving forward 🤠🙏
I hope it’s legal, otherwise I’m pretty sure that what I’m doing wouldn’t be.
All the laws regarding privacy (mail privacy, communication privacy, personal privacy), employment rights and regulations, counterfeiting of documents, education and school attendance, all the laws regarding ownership... let's put it simple. Less laws were not broken than laws that were broken.
Great video, but I ALSO worked at a summer camp in New York for less than minimum-wage that probably broke more laws than the Truman Show and now I'm wondering if it was the same place haha
Interesting, perhaps it was the same one although I'm sure there's more than a few sketchy camps in New York. I'm working on a deep dive on the US summer camp industry with some of my own anecdotal experiences with that camp so stay tuned- I also want to know if it's the same one!
@@the_flipside I was gonna say the same thing. Upstate NY especially seems to have an abundance of sketchy summer camps.
Definitely interested to see a video from you on that topic!
Money money
The privacy violations alone are enough to get Truman likely billions of dollars.
Fun fact: living in the Truman show, is not fun. 😢
Here at now 903 subscribers, this'll get big lol
Thank you for your support 🤠
I still don't understand why they build this giant dome?
6:46 damn right you're not callin that ugly.
also this video only has 956 views but I thought it was a multiple year old video with 100k or something lol
It's looks like an experiment to me
in the end everything can be legal if government agrees with you
nice vid
Nothing is illegal if you pay the right people.
Brilliant👍
Thanks, Garfield!
Were I evil I would have him sign long complicated employment contract every so often starting as soon as he turned 18.
good video
Thanks! 🙏
They also had impersonating a police officer. Though I suppose they could have had real police on there?
Mr Beast can afford to pull the Truman show off
This channel deserves more attention
"Spoilers ahead" after spoiling the whole plot already lol
The blurb for the film gives away much more
@@the_flipside true as well
Nothing at all in this video matters in the slightest. Absolutely EVERYTHING is legal...if you have enough money.
What about the Big Brother show?
yes
no
Sure try to convince me it’s illegal so I don’t realize it’s happening to me. Yeah right!
what could go wrong
Truman's life should've been private oh we just subscribed
WHAT I THOUGHT YOU MUSTVE HAD AT LEAST LIKE 100k SUBS JUDGING BY THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO HOW DO YOU ONLY HAVE 182????? (It's 183 now)
Very kind of you to say. Hopefully someday, I'll just keep trying new things 😁
@@the_flipside yes keep doing what you're doing!!!
Okay but what if its real and i am said truman, and the laws are just there to make me think its illegal. How am i supposed to know what goes on outside of my show?
Right, so it's illegal, or at least that's what the showrunners want us to think! Who knows what kind of laws they have on the outside!
i am your 400th subscriber
Thank you #400!
also the rehearsal clearly isnt all true, or at leasr i hope
Question. If he was seen as the first legal adoption of a child by a company.
What would they define slavery. When it was legal a lot of both adults and minors where technically sold to companies who owned them. (you could argue that they where back then seen as a product.
also how would a CZcams family now been seen. there are enough where the parents film effectfly everything of themselves and there children. they make a living from it.
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