James Franco and Lanzi helped pick up a big bargain.
Tommy Wiseau (hereafter, for convenience, will be called "Brother wretched") even if he did not shoot the shocking work of "The Room", he himself is a reality star whose appearance and style are comparable to Ozzy Osbourne, both in front and behind the scenes. Provoked a heartfelt laugh. Not only the true nationality, age, and source of funding of the wretched brother have never been made public, but his style of behavior is not part of the world as perverse and weird. According to Tom Bissell, one of the original authors of "Disaster Artist", "The Room" is like An alien who has never seen a movie before, after listening to a detailed explanation of what a movie is, he took a quick look at the work according to his own understanding.
Sometimes I even suspect that the wretched brother suffered a car accident like his idol James Dean. The car accident not only damaged his facial nerves (such as the protagonist Milo Ventimiglia of "Heroes"), but also changed his brain circuits. It caused him to bias his perception of human age. He couldn't distinguish between 16 and 26 years old, and between 26 and 46 years old, and infinitely magnified his self-recognition: I am a superstar, and I have not been recognized by this world. The shame of this world. Of course, unlike those Hollywood dream-seekers who are equally paranoid, the wretched brother can afford his dreams.
In the face of this paranoid narcissism backed by funds, the flaws in The Room itself seem insignificant. In fact, relying on the wretched brother's financial resources (in fact, because he has no common sense concept of film production), the appearance of "Room" has at least reached the level of third-rate soap operas, and all the areas that only spend superficial effort, such as clothing and lighting , Props, sound effects, and makeup are not too bad, at least not as perfunctory as in "The Birds: Shock and Horror"; all the actors, except for the wretched brother, have shown above the basic level (think "Troll 2 "Great reading in "), you at least feel that they are indeed working hard to cooperate with the wretched brother.
Therefore, the filming process of "The Room" must not be defined by the crude division of "little people dreaming of the showbiz". The story that "Disaster Artist" focuses on is not "dream", but an ordinary person's ignorance, arrogance, and stupidity. , Enthusiasm (supported by wealth and successive desire for power) obscures the sense of confusion and absurdity on the faces of the audience, but because the wretched brother is too mysterious, too elusive, too ridiculous, compassionate and even sympathetic, cheering, he is in The contrast between the sentiment and sincerity in "The Room" and the final effect makes us often overlook this point, just like any serious comment on "The Room" is often drowned in laughter. The entry point for the audience can only be Greg, played by Dave. If the logic of the story is shown in detail (the title is erased in the cutscenes in "Disaster Artist"), he and the wretched brother will roll in Hollywood according to their own logic, and their lives will be intertwined with each other. Even more exciting, although Dave's acting skills and Greg's aura may not be able to support the wretched brother's opposing scene.
To put it simply, our love for "The Room" started out from a simple understanding: How can everything be so wrong and so right?
This sense of confusion, to use a joke of the British comedy theorist Jimmy Carr, is: a person in the parking lot said to another person, how can you occupy a parking space for the disabled, you are mentally retarded! The impact of "The Room" on people is like the parking space in your brain that is specially prepared for the disabled is occupied by a mental retardation. This mental retardation is even more slippery than you when reversing into the warehouse. You love the daily activity of reversing into the warehouse. Knowing that there is no more perfect reversing storage.
We feel that our accumulated taste for movies in the past has been ruthlessly mocked, we are offended and destroyed by a high profile, and we cheer for seeing a subversive movie. The main premise of this appreciation is that the audiences are completely in love with "The Room", and at the same time they must have enough movie common sense and good taste. They must distinguish between a "bad movie" and a "cult movie". Weak boundaries. When we declared that we were fans of "The Room", we also declared that we could appreciate the avant-garde spirit and fanatical complex of this movie, an inside joke.
The place where "Disaster Artist" failed to go further is precisely the subversive nature of the genius of "The Room" and the pathological narcissism of the wretched brother himself. Franco has made "Disaster Artist" a more popular and simple inside joke, a fan-inspired inside joke. movie. To put it more bluntly, the protagonist is not bitter enough or evil enough; to put it more elegantly, the wretched brother presents self-deception, empty vanity, love and affirmation, the personal charm of deceitfulness in "The Room". , None of them have been carefully scrutinized by Franco. The simplest question is, after watching "Disaster Artist", do you have a deeper understanding of Brother Wretched, or do you think any character in the film can (even try) understand Brother Wretched?
Furthermore, the "Room" crew presented in "Disaster Artist", except for what the old lady who played Lisa and her mother said at lunch: No matter how bad the day is on the set, it is much better than the rest of the world. How much do we have a non-comedy, in-depth understanding of the other people in this crew? "Room" is just a glimpse of the anxiety, anxiety, and suspicion of the crew. The pleasing thing about "Disaster Artist" is that it is a compressed version of reality that has been precisely calculated. It is emotionally overflowing, and the details are unclear. Everything is like the time when the wretched brother shot "The Room": Franco—or wretched brother—is the only star, and the rest is not brilliant.
After all, it would be such a disaster and interesting to see "Disaster Artist" being nominated for the best film. Anyway, how's your sex life?
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