Compared with the big bad films "Atlantic Rim", "Five Sharks" and "Sharknado" currently on the market in the United States, this 2003 "Room" is actually a very simple bad film.
It may be because of cultural barriers and incomprehension of foreigners' acting skills. I didn't feel much when I first watched it. textured TV series).
The plot of the movie is very simple: the hero and heroine are a couple, the hero loves the heroine very much, and gives her a red dress and roses, but the heroine has changed his mind, cheating on the hero's good friend, on the one hand, the good friend feels I'm sorry for the male protagonist, but on the one hand, I am involuntarily attracted to the female protagonist. In the end, the incident came to light. The actor committed suicide in pain while hugging the red dress. The good friend knew that he was sorry for the actor and did not accept the heroine. The story ended.
Even in 2003, this kind of plot is too simple, let alone 2003 in the United States, but the focus of this movie is not the plot, but the acting.
If everyone's acting skills are to be compared with a Chinese film and television drama, it should be "Runaway Sweetheart".
The male protagonist, who is also the director and screenwriter of this film, what about his acting skills... Now the actors in bad American films on the market are generally exaggerated in their acting skills and lack of emotion, while the male protagonist's acting skills are exaggerated with a hint of exaggeration. Laziness and disdain are mixed with a bit of daze. He is not like other bad actors who are rotten and righteous. He seems to feel that he is rotten after acting for a while and then he is at a loss. He has been groping for his acting skills, trying to act as best he can. Good but always emotionally out of place, which is also shown in The Disaster Artist.
In contrast, other actors are either acting like their first acting, or acting like supporting roles in bad films that have been played for many years, and they are mediocre.
Their mediocrity is rotten under the background of mentally retarded plots and children's English lines.
As mentioned earlier, the main line of the movie is just a simple emotional dispute, but the male protagonist (that is, the screenwriter and director) inserted a lot of strange scenes, such as playing ball with friends, such as a little boy who was suddenly asked by the robber to pay back money on the rooftop. , This kind of plot has no beginning or end, it neither plays a role in shaping the character nor has anything to do with the main plot, which disrupts the audience's rhythm of watching the drama, resulting in a loose plot. What to say, you have to ignore those irrelevant parts to understand the main plot of the movie, but the audience is not obliged to help the director to cut the movie.
Many novice directors make this mistake. In order to enrich the content of the film, they add a lot of irrelevant images, and finally ruin a film, turning an ordinary little bad film into a colorful big bad film. Just like the original pure color paint, adding a little more other colors will make it more beautiful, but adding more other colors will eventually become dirty.
And other unreasonable points in this film that make people laugh, such as "playing in a suit", "the male protagonist acts like a chicken to provoke others", "children's English lines", "the heroine mother and son have normal reactions when they hear that their mother has cancer", It is all due to the poor writing and lack of life experience of the screenwriter. The screenwriter writes like a primary school student writing romance novels. The plot is very vulgar, the lines are very vernacular, and there are many naive plots. This is from the actor's acting skills. It can be seen that although the male protagonist is already an adult man, he seems to be too obtuse about life, and people with too poor empathy ability are indeed not suitable for literary and artistic work (but poor enough to engage in entertainment work).
Watching "The Room" and "The Disaster Artist" together, I believe that many people still don't understand the true character of Tommy Weiss. Even "The Disaster Artist" is just to make a deep impression without any other meaning of existence. It is also a bad film director. , Tommy Wessue does not love movies like Edwood is touching. He has always been in a stupefied state. The popularity of "Room" is also unintentional. His life can be said to be mysterious, but no one interested in him.
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