In the film industry, many famous directors have become masters of the era with their amazing works, enjoying the adoration of countless movie fans. However, there is a weird filmmaker who doesn't play cards according to common sense, ignoring any film shooting rules, and tinkering with the worst film "Room" in film history. Attention everyone, this is not the "Room" the year before that featured abducted and imprisoned mother and child. Looking at the English title, this one has an extra "the". Room" was nominated for an Oscar, but this "Room" has become a movie legend as the "worst film", and now its production process has been put on the big screen again. The film to be reviewed today is the current Hollywood awards season. The Big Dark Horse, The Disaster Artist
Bad movie classic alternative success
Hollywood is never short of bad movies, but no work can be as bad as "Room" with bad personality and bad style. Its producer and star, Tommy Wiseau, is an unparalleled super weirdo in his own right. The mysterious Tommy has a huge passion for making movies for some reason. Together with his good friend Greg, he put everything aside and went to Hollywood to become a movie star. But like most "Hollywood drifters", waiting for them is only a closed door again and again. Fortunately, Tommy not only has a movie dream, but also has a bottomless purse. After being dissed by Hollywood producers countless times, Tommy decided in 2003 to make, write, direct and act out of his own pocket. For the film, he paid a huge cost of 6 million US dollars. You must know that the production cost of last year's Oscar's best film "Moonlight" was only 1.5 million US dollars. However, because Tommy has no experience in filming, it feels like he successfully made a movie that cost 6 million for 60 yuan: an unintelligible plot, bad acting skills, and five cents a dozen is too much The special effects pictures together form this super thunderous masterpiece with spicy eyes. And Wei Suren, as the name suggests, is vulgar on the set. Not only does he require the camera to slap his key parts, but he also takes the heroine's skirt and handjobs. Oh, you look really handjob. Wei Jipin had no choice but to hold his forehead, thinking in his heart that this film would never be released.
After the production was completed, Tommy immediately sent the film to several major Hollywood distributors, but was rejected by the speed of light. Unrepentant, Tommy started publicity at his own expense, erecting this huge billboard in Los Angeles, and paid off the cost of 5 years with $300,000 in one go. Despite this, "Room" was still unpopular. The first round of screening only received $1,800 at the box office. The reluctant Tommy extended the screening period to two weeks in order to qualify for the Oscar selection, let alone the results. It's an Oscar, and even the Golden Raspberry, which specializes in evaluating "worst films", can't see it. It seems that "Room" has really fallen below the lower limit of bad films.
However, things began to take an unexpected turn: a few years later, during April Fool's Day, American TV broadcast the "Room" as a disgusting prank, purely to refresh the audience's aesthetic lower limit, but the audience responded enthusiastically , shouted that it opened the door to a new world, and praised it as "the "Citizen Kane" of the bad film industry" and "the best bad film". At the strong request of the audience, the theater pulled the film out of the garbage heap and rescheduled it for release, and fans lined up at the entrance of the theater. "Room" has gained a huge number of ardent fans around the world and is still regularly shown in cinemas to this day. It is not just a movie viewing experience for fans to watch this film, but more like a group ritual. Fans are already familiar with all the mentally retarded lines in the film. They say these blunt dialogues together with the characters in the movie, as if group karaoke; and every time a picture of a spoon with unknown meaning appears in the background of the film, fans will take out these blunt dialogues. The prepared spoons were thrown at the screen, and the spoons rained in the air, like a surreal carnival.
Young Artists Interpret the King of Bad Movies
As "Room" has become an unprecedented classic bad movie, it has become a generation of cult. It not only brought huge financial returns to Tommy, but also helped him to reach the peak of his life and become a movie star who had been dreaming about it before. Now, every time he appears at the film screening site, he is greeted with cheers like a tsunami of mountains and tsunamis. Not only has he endorsed countless advertisements, but he has recently set foot in e-commerce and established an online store for his personal fashion brand. Good friend Greg wrote Tommy's experience of "rotten" into a memoir "The Disaster Artist", which jumped to the bestseller list. Even among the celebrities in Hollywood, there are many people who call Tommy crazy, and the actor James Frank, who is known as "Fu Lanlan", bought the film adaptation rights of "The Disaster Artist" and learned from Tommy by himself. Self-directed and self-acted to bring the production process of "Room" to the screen.
Although Fu Lanlan debuted in the image of a literary youth, and at the peak of his acting career, he went to New York University like classmate Hu Ge to be plated with gold, but in recent years he starred in movies like "Assassination of Kim Jong-un" and "Why Him" ' such a spoof comedy. This time, the eccentric director who performed the legendary bad film, many people think that this is just a second-rate comedy that attracts attention. But obviously, this time, Fu Lanlan is playing for real. He has watched "Room" more than 60 times. He has to play Tommy's interview recordings while driving to learn Tommy's weird accent. He endures 2 times a day. An hour and a half of makeup, just to get closer to Tommy's image. Even in order to be close to Tommy's character state, Fu Lanlan still uses Tommy's unique accent tone and body language even when directing other actors. What's even more surprising is that the film unearths different layers of Tommy's character: his arrogance and ignorance of the film is ironic, the way he shoots is disgusting, but his relentless pursuit of the film dream, and the more frustrated he is. Brave persistence is awe-inspiring. Maybe any ordinary audience can laugh at Tommy's lack of talent in film and television production, but how many people can have the courage of Tommy's "for dreams, against the world"?
judge's case
"The history of the birth of the worst movie in history" sounds more like an online joke that cheats click-through rates to satisfy people's curiosity. But "The Disaster Artist" interprets this process as both hilarious and heartwarming: when Tommy swore at the tomb of his idol James Dean to move forward regardless of the world's eyes, when good friend Greg gave up the hit for Tommy's bad movie When making an offer for a TV series, no one can not be moved:
It made people laugh when watching it, and thought-provoking after watching it. The judge gave the film a full score of 5 tokens. I just can't help but sigh again, Tommy's ability to overcome all difficulties and achieve his movie dream is one aspect of his own perseverance, and more importantly, his bottomless money bag. It can be seen that if you have money and talent, you may be able to become an excellent director. If you have money and talent, you can still be the king of bad movies. If you have money, you can do whatever you want!
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