I admit that I have always annoyed James Franco. After all, he really likes to bounce around, but after so many years, he finally made a serious movie this time. Although "The Room" enjoys a "noble" status in the bad film industry and has a wave of loyal fans, there are not many people who really know and watch it. "The Disaster Artist" not only made "The Room" widely known, it also extended James Franco's best performance (and the snow-white butt egg) from this shocking movie, which has already been directed to the Oscar nomination.
James Franco mentioned in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that his first contact with "The Room" was the billboard that had been standing in Hollywood from 2003 to 2008. Wiseau Light spent a total of approximately $300,000 on this billboard. This terrible billboard is printed with Tommy Wiseau's big face, and Wiseau seems to be winking at you magically. A24 re-leased the same billboard while building a campaign for "The Disaster Artist". This time, James Franco has "secretly sent you a surprise". Tommy Wiseau personally shared his photos on Twitter. With strong curiosity, I dialed the number above. The call was transferred to the voicemail of "Tommy Wiseau" (James Franco), telling you "The Disaster Artist" was released, and he was too busy to answer the phone, hahahaha.
James Franco read "The Disaster Artist" during the filming of "The Interview" in Vancouver. He likes to read this book aloud with others. He watched "The Room" for the first time in a theater in Vancouver. He said it was his best A great movie watching experience. In fact, halfway through the reading, he had decided to make it into a movie, and he wanted to play Tommy Wiseau. When he talked to Wiseau about the movie, Wiseau expressed that he hoped that Johnny Depp would play himself (I don’t know if the protagonist of "The Room" is called Johnny because Wiseau loves Johnny Depp very much). Of course, this film cannot afford Johnny Depp. Later, Wiseau felt that it was acceptable to play by James Franco, because he played Wiseau’s idol James Dean in 2001.
"The Disaster Artist" as an annual entertainment film, the movie-watching experience is not ordinary. This is a movie suitable for watching in a cinema. The experience of the audience from the roar of laughter in the first second to the end of the easter egg is absolutely incomparable when one person is watching the computer. If you have watched "The Room", you can naturally find every stalk easily. But the awesome thing about this film is that even if you haven't watched "The Room", you can still feel every smile. James Franco's performance itself is the biggest laugh of the film. He really played this comedy character too vividly, and even a simple act of pulling his hair can make people laugh. But the reason why "The Disaster Artist" is a good movie is because from James' performance, we also see Wiseau's simplicity and fragility, delicate and sensitive, and the lonely madness. Digging into a person's heart from such limited information, James Franco is really attentive this time.
However, Tommy Wiseau, the most mysterious man in Hollywood, is still a mystery. We still don’t know anything about this man with a European accent. We don’t know which country he is from, how old he is, or where his money comes from. But it is precisely his own mystery that keeps the audience's interest in this stunning and terrible film never fading. Judging from the Easter eggs at the end, Tommy Wiseau's madness and desire for control have not changed in the slightest. The match between Wiseau and James Franco, which Wiseau personally requested, was so nonsensical that the screenwriter could not insert it into the feature film, and could only become an Easter egg. Wiseau is still the Wiseau his fans love.
Dave felt a little pain after reading it. Suddenly think of Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck, the other brothers in Hollywood. Although Casey lives under his brother’s aura, he has been honing his acting skills in various films and trying his best to give the audience a wonderful performance. Winning the Oscar, the actor finally walked out of his brother's light with a raised eyebrow. But Dave, poor Dave is not only not tall, handsome, or famous. The key is that his acting skills are not as good as his brother. And this film is really cruel to Dave. The acting skills are compared with that of his brother. No wonder he can only be a supporting role for his brother. For a long time in the future, it should only be a supporting role by his brother.
The main line of the film is actually the history of the relationship between Tommy Wiseau and Greg. The key is actually a pair of brothers starring, wow. The two became attached to an acting class in San Francisco, and Greg, who was afraid of performing in front of others, was attracted by Wiseau's bold emotional expression. A person who can't perform and a person who performs excessively are not understood and appreciated by others, but they both have the dream of innocent actors. In this way, they came together and became good friends. They like to play rugby toss together innocently, and they like to make appointments with hooks. Wiseau also gave Greg a unique Wiseau Planet custom pen. Greg accepted Wiseau's proposal. The two of them eloped to Los Angeles and started a happy cohabitation life in Wiseau's apartment. When he first arrived at the apartment in Los Angeles, Greg was surprised to find that there was only one bedroom. Wiseau said sadly, "Are you not willing to sleep with me?" Seeing that Greg was so shy, Wiseau gave him the only bedroom in the apartment and slept by himself. sofa. Even though everyone around Greg persuaded him to leave the weird Wiseau, Greg has always been with Wiseau. Even for Wiseau's movie, Greg gave up the opportunity to perform with his idol.
People are still asking what "The Room" really wants to express. But what he wants to express may be as simple as what you see. A kind man who has been helping his friends was betrayed by his friends and fiancée. He was so sad that he wanted to die. In fact, he really told you his story. He feels that Greg is the light of his life and his only good friend. He lives in Greg’s house and has been helping him, but after meeting his girlfriend Amber, Greg no longer needs himself so much, even from his house. Moving away, he felt betrayed by Greg, he was so sad! When the film premiered, he saw the audience laughing all over the room, and was full of disappointment: "I wrote my story with my heart and soul, why is everyone laughing?" Until Greg chased him out and told him, "Tommy sees." Looking at the reactions of these audiences, does Hitchcock's movie have such a enthusiastic response?" He smiled happily again. Is he really so happy because of the enthusiastic reaction from the audience? Just kidding, you guys laugh at the saddest part of my heart, will I really feel happy? He was happy because he felt that Greg still cares about him! Greg made up with him! The ending of his story has changed! After making such a bad film, the two of them are still making a movie together! This is not what love is!
Leaving aside these unscrupulous base emotion clips, "The Disaster Artist" has unveiled a part of the mystery about "The Room". For example, the football scene that I don’t know where is Greg and Wiseau’s favorite game. The famous "You are tearing me apart, Lisa" comes from Wiseau’s favorite movie. Throwing mineral water bottles for no reason is due to the tension in Wiseau’s first scene. And why the production cost of this film is so high.
Legend has it that Wiseau spent $6 million to make this movie. Such a shit-like movie is so simple that it cannot be a simple setting. All the casts are unknown non-professional actors. How did it cost 6 million US dollars? The pictures taken by 6,000 pieces of student homework may be more advanced than it. What is the concept of $6 million in 2003? In the same year, "The Devil" spent 8 million, "Lost in Tokyo" spent 4 million, "Whale Rider" spent 3.5 million, and the following year "Chain Saw" spent 1.2 million.
"The Disaster Artist" answers this doubt for us. Wiseau is rich and willful! "Don't worry about money", "Money is not a problem", "Oh, I have a suite there". It doesn't matter if you humans can't understand me, I have my own Wiseau Planet. Normal people can’t appreciate my performance. I will be the president of Wiseau Films. I write, direct, produce, and star in my own movies. Normal people are renting equipment for low-cost movies. Wiseau waved his hand: "We don't rent, we buy directly", and also use film and digital cameras at the same time. He set up a corner scene. It is obvious that the outside of the studio is the same street, because this is Hollywood, and the filming of Hollywood is on stage. Watching "The Room" you will find that the rooftop scene uses a green screen, and the rooftop is exactly the same as the top floor of his apartment, and the scenery from P is the same as that seen from the top of his building. He also spent huge sums of money to build a toilet for himself for the director. Obviously there is a toilet on the set, so he just wants to show off his directorship privileges. Tommy Wiseau personally explained to us what it means to be rich. Wait, so much money is spent to realize my movie dream, it seems that there is also our father Jack Ma...
At the end of the film, "The Disaster Artist" still raises this serious question. Is "The Room" known as "the greatest bad film" a successful movie? What kind of movie is considered a success? The textbooks of the Film Academy will tell you that film is a product of technology, business, art, entertainment, and culture. Technology? "The Room" is simply a technological disaster. Business? Compared to the $6 million production fee, its first week weekend box office was only $1,800. Art? It has no sense of beauty. culture? It can't even tell the story. Only entertainment, it is indeed the ultimate entertainment film. The audience's response was so enthusiastic, shouting "classic lines" as excited as watching a football game. But in terms of acting, script, dialogue, director, and photography, none of "The Room" is right. You can say it is successful, but I refuse to think it is great; you can cheer for it, but I don't feel proud of it.
"The Disaster Artist" and "The Room" are both phenomenal entertainment films, one to the extreme, and the other to the extreme. Both the extreme good and the extreme bad will be remembered, and the countless mediocre works and mediocre people struggling in the middle can only be sadly forgotten. In the film industry, only one in a million talented people can succeed, not to mention the mediocre majority? However, as the actor who played Lisa’s mother in the film said, "The worst day on a movie set is better than the best day anywhere else" . I really want to frame this sentence.
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