Don't scold me, it's not a joke.
Just fifteen years ago, on the other side of our ocean, someone spent $6 million to make the biggest bad movie in history, "Room," which grossed $1,800 in its first week of release.
But just yesterday, director and actor James Franco won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Comedy for the film "The Disaster Artist" based on the filming process of the worst film in history...
Deconstruction + Tribute to the biggest bad movie in history, how could Fu Lanlan do it?
Dramatically, one is 26% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and the other is 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes...
But more dramatically, James Franco and Tommy Wiseau had an epic meeting at the Golden Globes between the directors of both films.
After Franco got the Golden Ball male lead, he asked the prototype Tommy Wiseau to take the stage. Tommy Weisu was very happy to be invited. As soon as he came on stage, he wanted to grab the microphone to speak, but he was pushed away by Fran
... tearing me apart" (you tore my heart)
For this kind of victorious reversal beyond the realm, netizens contacted Director Bi Zhifei, a professional who graduated from the highest film school in our country without interruption: Director
Bi, you see, the seniors have given you the best demonstration... ...
Bi Director: "I'm not even one percent of other people's."
The movie "Room" in the entertainment industry
tells the story of Johnny, a devoted and wealthy man. After experiencing the betrayal of his friend and his fiancée, he swallowed a gun while hugging his girlfriend's red dress... In
short, it's you My brother is a good man who loves his sister-in-law, his family, and his job. He also sponsored a poor college student for him to go to school, but your sister-in-law actually cheated on your brother with their best friend...
Some call it the "Citizen Kane" of the bad movie world, and the same could be said.
And James Franco's "The Disaster Artist" is even simpler, a replica of "Dream Showbiz."
Two men, Tommy and Gray, who know nothing about movies, come to Hollywood single-handedly with their dreams of show business. However, it was smashed by the reality of the film circle and no bones were left.
Gray was quickly signed by a studio, but the long waiting period seemed like a black hole that never came out. Not to mention that Tommy's crazy and neurotic image is simply ignored.
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- A producer even said him in public: having an ideal may not necessarily lead to success, even if you have the talent of Marlon Brando, there is only a one-in-a-million chance of success. For you, success is impossible -Tommy
: That's possible...maybe...
-Producer: Not possible, not possible in a million years.
-Tommy: What about a million years from now?
-Producer: Even less likely
” _
The heartbroken Tommy did not give up because of this, but decided to direct and star in a movie "Room", and invited Gray to be the second male lead in the play...
So, the "Grass Stage" team that spent 6 million US dollars The build is complete.
I bought the camera directly without renting it, and bought a set of digital and film.
In order to shoot the scenes of the alley, a special studio was built, although there is an identical alley outside.
The scenes of the rooftop were not shot directly, but were made with green screen keying special effects.
Likewise, the interior scenes were not shot indoors, but an identical apartment interior was set up in a studio.
A director's toilet was built at his own expense, although there was a toilet on the set.
Three teams were changed without hesitation during filming.
After the filming was completed, Tommy rented a giant billboard in the outskirts of Hollywood for $300,000 to put on "Room", and put it on for five years.
. . . . . .
With the investment of 50 million yuan from director Bi Zhifei of Lenovo, and eight years of script writing, the two people's creative standards are almost the same.
Let's deconstruct the audiovisual language in it again.
It's like an awkward line in an elementary school English textbook. When you meet, you must say hi, and when you leave, you must say bye.
Always have a tasteless expression like eating shit. When you are angry, when your girlfriend tells you to be ashamed, when you are ashamed, after quarreling with your girlfriend...
The trick MV shows off your skills like you are fucking your belly button.
Unexplainable spoon background, inexplicable throwing football scene.
And the interlude of the car stereo in the 80s that starts playing as soon as they have sex is still lingering in Brain Gate's mind.
Not to mention the roaring line. "you are tearing me apart" has gone down in history.
It's all rotten, but this film really rots out its own cultural identity.
It has more than a million global fans, and everyone prefers to lump it in the category of a cult movie. (It means a movie that is loved and admired by supporters in a small circle, also known as a non-mainstream movie or an alternative movie.)
And it has been shown at least once a year in major cities in the United States.
Every time before the organization to watch the film, everyone will have a set of throwing spoons or throwing football as the most loyal support for "Room". As the most loyal fan of the film, Franland has personally made its production process into a movie.
It's unbelievable, how can a bad movie have so many achievements?
Braingate sums it up as sincerity.
At the beginning of the birth of a film, a rough sense of life struck. Experiments, innovations, and reforms that have been forgotten and taken for granted have been discovered.
It is good at gimmicks-cutting, nudity, violence... But its essence is so simple and fanatical, including the motivation of the characters, the use of dialogue, and there are causal reasons under careful study.
Once this relatively serious drama is cut from the perspective of a comedy, all the actions and lines of the actors become an opportunity to create a laugh.
Much of this stems from Tommy Wiseau himself.
And it was James Franco who made him a big success again.
Ⅱ | James Franco & Tony Wessou's
"Room" is a great success in the non-mainstream directing style written by Tommy Wessou.
The success of "The Disaster Artist" is that James Franco's quixotic dream hit a wall in an inspirational and comedic way.
People are no longer entangled in why this bad film is bad, but through the behind-the-scenes record of this film, they are interested in how a person who was abandoned by the world won the acceptance of the world through his own efforts.
The background of the spoon, which was ridiculed by the group, was later explained by Tommy because someone told him that the background should not be too fancy. In order to focus the audience's attraction on the main actor, he replaced the background with a picture of the spoon.
The scene of anger on the rooftop that was laughed wildly was also a stumbling block in the lines caused by Tommy's doubts about himself.
(Practice "hi Mark" countless times on set)
The classic line "you are tearing me apart" is also Tommy's reference to James Dean's "Revolt without a Cause" and Marlon Brando's "A Streetcar Named Desire" "In the classic appropriation and patchwork.
Even the real Gray didn't even want to shave his beard at the time, because he realized that the film was a disaster during the filming of "Room", and he used his beard to cover himself so that he could distance himself from the film in the future.
All this unreasonableness shows that Tommy is going against the sky.
But Tommy persisted until the end, and even played it in the cinema at his own expense, just to achieve a two-week broadcast record so that he could compete for the Oscars.
"Disaster Artist" is more like a survival story. People need this kind of cultural ideology even more to feel the vigorous growth of life.
I believe the same was true of James Franco's selection of "Room" in the first place.
In a sense, Franco has the same stubbornness as Tommy Wiseau.
When everyone says you're not a good fit, I'm just the opposite.
Relying on commercial films to make a fortune, he has an absolute innate advantage in appearance, but he constantly subverts his own image and seeks breakthroughs.
There are generally only two kinds of his films, either very nasty comedies or pure independent literary films.
In a one-minute performance by fourteen actors in The New York Times, he looked in the mirror, had a beard, and kissed himself in the mirror like a silly gay.
At the 83rd Academy Awards, he was sluggish like a drugged fool.
Because of his particular love of gay-themed films, the Hollywood geek was named the most gay straight and the most straight gay by The New Yorker magazine.
Published 5 books and wrote 65 poems...
He has been playing cards out of line all his life...
I think Tommy and Franco may have a heartfelt sympathy , all have rebellion and gratitude to the world, so as to realize the meaning of their own life.
Therefore, "Dream Chasing Showbiz" is still saved, and this sentence is not funny at all.
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