On the occasion of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, which is held every October 27, we wanted to offer you a quiz on televisions in films. Don’t skip this quiz if you think you can reach the Perfect!
In recent years, we have been able to see many films set in the world of television, most often to denounce the much less brilliant backstage than trompe l’oeil appearances might suggest, or to reveal the excesses of a reality show often described as mind-numbing, even dangerous.
Already in 1998, when the famous Loft of TF1 had not yet landed in French homes, Peter Weir warned us about the possible excesses of this emerging world with The Truman Show.
The story of Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who lives a peaceful life in Seaheaven, a trouble-free town where everyone is graciously polite and every house has its own manicured lawn. But the hero of the film will end up realizing that his universe is in reality only a vast film set, and that he himself is, without his knowledge, since his birth, the star of a TV show. reality.
In the 1980s, the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Running Man, brought to the screen by Paul Michael Glaser with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role, featured a game show where the candidates are none other than criminals fighting among themselves for their survival.
A theme already covered a few years earlier in France with Le Prix du Danger, in which a candidate for a television program broadcast live was awarded the prize of one million dollars if he managed to escape five hunters responsible for kill.
More recently, it was the film Scandal, released in 2018, which brought to light the ultra sexist universe of the Fox News channel, headed by the tyrant Roger Ailes with unscrupulous methods, seeking to create buzz at all costs. and to recruit presenters above all on physical criteria.
Television as an object has also often been the subject of memorable scenes in the cinema, as we will be able to see with this quiz in nine questions. Don’t skip!