Just as there are arguments regarding the best movie ever made, there are arguments regarding the worst.
And there are a lot to choose from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f … _the_worst
And, apparently, The Room might just be that film. But the weird thing is that, over time, some of these films actually become beloved [more pr less] precisely because they are considered to be so bad.
This is a movie about the making of the movie The Room. About all the “weird and mysterious” characters involved. One in particular.
The idea being that just because the powers that be in Hollywood reject you, that doesn’t mean the film is not going to be made. And many are able to convince themselves that what they imagine in their head is, if not pure genius, close enough. But then once the film is made you still have to deal with, among other things, the reaction of the audience. And just because you pride yourself on being “independent” doesn’t mean that the film won’t stink. Still, not every so-called “bad movie” becomes [in the opinion of some] "the cult film equivalent of Citizen Kane".
You know, whatever that means.
In other words, while some might imagine the film will be mocking Tommy Wiseau and The Room, it’s actually just the opposite: a celebration of them.
Then it’s up to us to decide if it really should have been the other way around.
On the other hand, how many people will there be [like me] who knew nothing at all about either one? I have absolutely no idea how to react to them myself. Tommy sees himself and the world around him from his “very own planet”. He’s just fucking weird.
For some the film is an all-time classic. But from Tommy’s point of view, for all the wrong reasons. So now he has to learn to laugh along with them. Even though he suspects that many of them are really laughing at him.
Look for Tom Cruise. And Tom Berenger. Sort of.
IMDb
[b]To promote the film the distributor rented the same billboard on Highland Avenue in Los Angeles that Tommy Wiseau rented for five years to promote The Room (2003), mimicking the layout of the original billboard and including a phone number to RSVP to screenings.
James Franco spoke like Tommy Wiseau throughout each day’s filming, and even directed using Wiseau’s distinctive voice and syntax, though Jason Mantzoukas said that Franco did not direct in character and only spoke like Wiseau.
James Franco recalled driving in Los Angeles after 2003 and seeing the giant billboard for the film that Wiseau rented for five years. Franco said he initially thought it might be for a cult, because of the phone number on the billboard.
Tommy Wiseau himself appears in the post credit scene as an invented character named Henry. The scene was written and filmed as one of the conditions for selling his life rights to the film.
In the rehearsal scene of “Waiting For Godot,” the director says that it’s pronounced “Guh-DOH,” not “GOD-oh.” However, Samuel Beckett stated that “GOD-oh” is in fact the correct pronunciation, thus the actor was actually correct, though that was in all likelihood not the intent here. [/b]
trivia at IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt3521126/tr … tt_trv_trv
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disaster_Artist_(film
trailer: youtu.be/cMKX2tE5Luk
The Disaster Artist [2017]
Directed by James Franco
[b]Celebrity narrator: If you were to ask the five best filmmakers in the world right now to make a movie like this… it… it wouldn’t even be in the same universe.
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Celebrity narrator: I was blown away. Like, like three minutes into it, I figure this is the fucking greatest movie I’ve ever seen in my life.
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Celebrity narrator: It has withstood, like ten years? And people are still watching a movie and talking about a movie. People aren’t doing that about whatever won the Oscar for best picture ten years ago.
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Celebrity narrators: What genius is behind this? Tommy wanted to break barriers in filmmaking. I think that he had a very clear vision. He is a figure of mystery where, you know, you do wanna learn more about him.
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Celebrity narrators: Who is this man? Who is this auteur? The kind of sheer ambition of it… is…is in-incredible. The numbers probably prove how unlikely it is that you’ll make it. If I had a time machine…I would go back and try and get on that set just to watch and feel what it was like 'cause it has to be…unbelievable.
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Tommy [moaning and groaning, climbing the wall, writhing on the stage floor]: Stella… Stella… Stella! Stella! Stella! Stella! Stella! Stella. Stella! Stella! Stella! Stella! Don’t ever leave me, baby.
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Tommy: Why you pullin’?
Greg: No, just, you know, none of my friends have a car this nice.
Tommy: ‘Cause all your friends little kids.
Greg: You know, I just mean it’s expensive, It’s nice, that’-that’s all.
Tommy: Don’t talk about me. What I drive. What I say, what I do. Don’t tell anybody. You understand, yeah?
Greg: Yeah. No, I-I won’t.
Tommy: 'Kay. And don’t look at robot crab. He’s shy.
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Tommy: I don’t see point.
Greg: Okay, um. All right, listen, when um, when I… When I get up on stage in front of people… It’s like all I could think about is uh… “what if-what if they laugh at me? Or if I embarrass myself?” Mm-hmm. Um, but you, man, you’re like fucking fearless! And I just-- I-I wanna feel that too. I just, I want–I want that.[/b]
Fearless? Cue the scene in the restaurant.
[b]Greg: Your accent threw me off.
Tommy: What accent?
…
Tommy: I don’t want career.
Greg: You don’t want a career? I thought that’s…
Tommy: I want my own planet.
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Greg: You know he died just a little bit south of here? I wanna go one day to the crash site. Pay my respects.
Tommy: Why don’t we go now?
Greg: Now? Now, Tommy, it’s not that close. It’s like 300 miles away.
Tommy: 300 mile, who care? We just do it.
Greg: It would take hours, man…Tommy, are you serious?
Tommy: Yeah, I’m serious. Greg, the Dean won’t come to you. You have to go to the Dean. Road trip!
Greg: Road trip!
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Woman [at an audition]: Am I hearing an accent?
Tommy: Uh, no, no, what do you mean?
Woman: 'Cause I’m hearing a kinda eastern European accent.
Tommy: Nah, that, uh, that’s from New Orleans.
Woman: Where? What?
Tommy: New Orleans, you heard? You know? The Big Easy?
Woman: Oh, New Orleans! I thought, I didn’t know what you were saying. Okay, yeah, well… Can we just try to lose the accent?[/b]
He sort of loses it.
[b]Tommy: You heard of Konstantin Stanislavski?
Greg: Of course, yeah, he’s like the greatest acting teacher of all time.
Tommy: Yeah, and now he Tommy acting teacher. He seen something special in me, you know, maybe you know, I become big star. So I have first class this evening.
Amber: I’m pretty sure Stanislavski’s dead.
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Friend: Fire that fuckin’ spooky friend of yours. That fuckin’ vampire-lookin’ motherfucker. It’s like…
Greg: Tommy?
Friend: Who is-who is he?
Greg: He’s just-I don’t know, he’s a friend. He’s my roommate.
Friend: ‘Cause he’s fuckin’…You can’t go anywhere with that dude. Hollywood’s pussy dries up when you walk in with this dude. I… I… I… They just fuckin’ clamp shut like a fuckin’… Hollywood puts on a fuckin’ chastity belt around him.[/b]
Cue Tommy auditioning Shakespeare in a Hollywood restaurant.
[b]David [a Hollywood producer]: Tommy? Just because you want it doesn’t mean it can happen. Okay? It’s one in a million, even if you have Brando’s talent. It’s not gonna happen for you. Okay?
Tommy: Maybe…
David: I’m not saying maybe. I’m saying not in a million years.
Tommy: And after that?
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Tommy: This town, Greg. They don’t want me. They don’t understand me. Maybe I don’t have what it take.
Greg: Yeah, man, I know what you mean.
Tommy: You do?
Greg: Yeah. My agent won’t return my calls, and…all I hear is no all day, every day, it’s… it’s fuckin’ hard, man.
Tommy: Nobody like me, Greg. Nobody give me chance. My whole life.
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Greg: All right, we said we were gonna push each other. Never give up on our dreams, right?
Tommy: I just don’t know how, Greg.
Greg [wistfully]: I wish we could just make our own movie.
Tommy [the light blub turning on]: That great idea.
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Greg: You finished?
Tommy [slamming The Room script on the table]: It’s my masterpiece. Greatest drama since the Tennessee Williams.
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Tommy: And of course, you play Mark.
Greg: What? You want…you want me to play Mark in this? Hey, big role.
Tommy: Second lead. Yeah, it’s a huge role.
Greg: Are you-are you sure?
Tommy: Well, you don’t wanna do it, fine. Maybe Johnny Dapp available.
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Tommy: We don’t rent, we buy.
Greg: Is that not normal?
Birns and Sawyer: Industry standard is pretty much that you would rent the equipment because it’s so prohibitively expensive to own it.
Tommy: Okay. I said no problem. Okay, I guess we’ll buy.
Birns and Sawyer: You wanna shoot 35 or HD?
Tommy: Well, we’ll shoot both on this film.
Birns and Sawyer: Digital and film? But you’d need twice the crew, uh, twice the equipment. I mean…they’re lit differently. It’s just not done.
Tommy: I have vision.
Greg: Tommy, the pioneer, man. He–that’s–He wants to go outside the box. It’s what he does.
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Tommy [explaining his “vision” of the movie to the cast and crew]: Okay, everyone gather round. Everyone gather round. Come on, don’t be shy…Today our top of mountain day. Today we take first steps on a great journey. After today, which one of ourselves will ever be same? This play work if chemistry between character make sense. Human behavior. Betrayal. It applies to all of us. It’s in ourselves. You love someone. What is love? You need to have spirit, hope. Be optimist. But can you handle all your human behavior and behavior of others? Right? Right, see what I’m saying? You don’t wanna be good. You wanna be great.
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Tommy: We do alley scene.
Sandy: This set of the alleyway looks exactly like the real alley out there.
Tommy: That’s right. That’s what we do in Hollywood movie, right?
Sandy: Well, why don’t we just shoot in the real alleyway?
Tommy: Because is real Hollywood movie.
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Sandy: I’d like to cash this check if uh, possible.
Bank teller: Okay. Uh, is 20’s okay?
Sandy: Went through?
Bank teller: Yeah.
Sandy: That is shocking. There’s actually money in there?
Bank teller: This account…It’s like a bottomless pit.
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Sandy: Take 67. Action!
…
Sandy: Cut! Oh, God.
[he walks over to Tommy]
Sandy: Uh. Hey, uh… So… the story he’s telling you…the one you… yourself wrote…
Tommy: Yeah?
Sandy: It’s not a funny story, Tommy. I thought this was a serious scene, Tommy? Why are you laughing?
Tommy: Well, some-sometimes people do crazy things, right? Human behavior.
Sandy: Okay, fair enough. Maybe just get one…where you don’t laugh at the story, okay?[/b]
Nope, doesn’t happen.
[b]Tommy [to no one in particular]: It’s human behavior.
…
[Tommy watches himself being discussed on the documentary video]
Raphael: He knows nothing about filmmaking. He’s a complete idiot. I don’t even think he’s seen a movie.
Sandy: Clearly never been on a set before.
Raphael: Have you ever heard of someone producing, directing…
Tommy [to himself]: This guys doesn’t know anything.
Raphael: Who gives this guy money?
Sandy: Oh, I don’t even wanna get into that, that’s something I don’t even want to probe.
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Greg: This is not necessary.
Tommy: No, very necessary. I need to show my ass to sell this movie.
Greg: Maybe uh, at least we have a closed set?
Tommy: Not closed set, open set. Life is not closed set. I want everyone to see. You especially.
Juliette/Lisa: What? Why? What?
Tommy: Brad Pitt do this in “The Legend of the Falls.”
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Greg: What’s going on with you?
Tommy: Stanley Kubrick, he nice to actors? Alfred Hitchcock? Let me tell you something, Greg. He do this movie, “Birds.”
Greg: Yeah, I’m aware of The Birds.
Tommy: On this movie, he terrify actors. He locked them in room. He throw-he throw birds at them. Real birds! Th-Th-Th… Nasty stuff. The actors, they cry every day. But this movie win every award. Is Mr. Hitchcock bad man? No. He great director.
Greg: Yeah, but he was an asshole. And I bet he didn’t direct with his fucking dick out!
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Juliette: I think you’re aiming a little bit high.
Tommy: I aim where I aim. Just do the scene.
Sandy [watching the scene]: Why is he having sex with her belly button? He knows where her vagina is, right?
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Tommy [to the whole crew]: Where Markus? Markus! This Mar–film now. This Markus, I hire him do documentary “The Making of The Room.” He capture every comment. “Oh, yeah, Tommy weird.” “Tommy like Frankenstein.” “He like, he like vampire rapist.” I hear everything. I have ears everywhere. I hear your whispers in your souls. You’re on my planet. Okay?
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Tommy [to camerman]: Make sure you see my ass!
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Cast member: Hey, Greg. Can we ask you something?
Greg: Yeah.
Cast member: What is this movie about?
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Tommy: I take you to Los Angeles, give you place to stay. I write you this part. I do this whole movie for you, Greg?..Don’t betray me, Greg.
Greg: I’m not betraying you.
Tommy: What I say? We do this together? Now you betray me.
Greg: So, are you gonna let me do it or not?
Tommy: Not up to me, Greg. Up to you. You have to choose. You do this TV show, “Little Malcolm.” Or you do the movie. Our movie, Greg.
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Sandy: Let’s go to a bar and erase the memory of today.
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Tommy: Greg! Dammit, why you throw this tricky stuff?
Greg: All right, man, you wanna get real? You wanna get real for the cameras, let’s get real. Hey, you guys gettin’ this? Yeah, good. Let’s get real. Where were you born, Tommy?
Tommy: No… Greg, that not part of scene.
Greg: Where are you from? It’s a simple question.
Tommy: I’m from New Orleans. New Orleans. From the bayou.
Greg: You guys hear that? This guy with this fuckin’ accent is from “the bayou.”
Tommy: Greg…
Greg: Oh, you want an easier question? Let’s see…where does the money come from, huh?
Tommy: Greg, stop! This on camera!
Greg: I know it’s on camera just like you wanted. All right, just tell me this one thing…How old are you?
Tommy: I’m your age, Greg.
Greg: You’re my age? You’re my age?! I’m just your friend…There is no fucking way you’re in your 20’s, all right? You are a fucking villain! Fucking Frankenstein-looking motherfucker!
Tommy: I not villain!
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Tommy: You didn’t RSVP.
Greg: Yeah, I’m not coming. And…honestly, maybe…maybe you shouldn’t have a premiere at all.
Tommy: Greg. We made pact. Remember? To never lose sight of our dream. Well, on Friday… they premiere a movie. Our movie, Greg. In real live theater. I know you don’t like me anymore. So don’t do it for me. Do it for you, Greg. You’ll finally get to see yourself on big screen. This was your dream too, Greg.
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Raphael [at the movie premier]: That was fucking weird.
Sandy: Yup. At this point, it would be fucking weird if he didn’t do something that was fucking weird.[/b]
Audience reaction at the premier? Brutal. Really brutal. They are basically howling with laughter.
Greg: Hey, Tommy.
Tommy: They hate it. I know. I know, they’re…
Greg: They’re just- they’re just laughing.
Tommy: Yeah, they’re laughing. Laughing at me. Maybe it’s true, you know. Maybe everybody right, maybe… Maybe I just big joke. Ha ha.
Greg: Come on, Tommy.
Tommy: I tried to open my heart, show them my soul, and… they just hate me. Even you hate me, Greg.
Greg: Hey, hey, hey. Listen to me, all right? All right, that thing up there? That’s your movie. You made that. All right, like you said, you did that all by yourself.
So, is that consolation enough?
[b]Greg [to Tommy]: Maybe it didn’t turn out exactly as you hoped. But just listen for a second… Look how much fun they’re having. They fucking love it, man…How often do you think Hitchcock got a response like this?
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Audience [shooting at the screen…the scene where Tommy puts the gun in his mouth]: Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! Go, man![/b]
Cue the standing ovation.
[b]Tommy [standing up on the stage, the audience cheering]: Okay. Wow. I’m glad you like my comedic movie! Exactly how I intended.
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Title card: The Room was released in one theater on June 27th, 2003. Tommy paid to keep it there for 2 weeks in an effort to qualify for the Academy Awards. Though the exact figures remain confidential, its production budget is alleged to have exceeded 6 million dollars. It grossed $1,800 on its opening weekend. It has since gained cult status and turned a profit, regularly playing to sold out midnight screenings around the world. To this day no one knows where Tommy is from. Or where he made his money. Or how old he is.
Title card: Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero still speak everyday. They continue to write, act and produce together. They are best know for The Room.[/b]