10 Tiny Movie Details That Give Away Character Secrets

3. Truman's Best Friend Marlon Keeps Restocking The Vending Machine With The Same Candy Bars, Because He's An Actor - The Truman Show

The Truman Show revolves around Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), a man unaware that his entire life unfolds within the controlled confines of a reality TV show.

As the movie's opening titles sequence makes clear, every single person in Truman's world is a paid actor, even his best friend Marlon (Noah Emmerich), who manages to convince Truman for a good while that his suspicions are incorrect.

And while we as the audience know that Marlon - or rather, Louis Coltrane, as is his real name - is an actor from the first few minutes of the movie, there's a brilliant hint to Truman in the first act of the film that "Marlon" isn't who he says he is.

When Truman visits him at the convenience store where he works, Marlon is stocking a vending machine with candy bars, yet because he wasn't expecting Truman to show up, he doesn't have enough candy bars to keep stocking the machine for the entirety of the "scene."

And so, whenever Truman turns away from him for a moment, Marlon removes a couple of the bars and puts them back into the machine, giving only the most superficial impression that he's still working.

Obviously a real employee would've had a full box of candy bars to put in the machine, but because this is a TV show with a presumably huge catering department, there's no real need to fully stock it.

Of course, had Truman been paying much attention at all, he would've noticed the deception and realised Marlon was in on it too.