just a man with a dream I think anyone can relate to that
What makes the Room so special?
Kevin Lewis
David Perez
We literally know nothing about Tommy. I secretly hope he will tell us that he was trolling or something even though it would destroy the magic of this movie.
Owen Wilson
I think the original intent was sincere, but once the fame grows you can't do it twice without the added awareness
Aiden Miller
which is just as pathetic and embarrassing as anything else that idiot wrote. what makes it a good read is the content it describes. the way he imagines eastern europe is just silly. besides, he completely makes everything up. he says himself, he knows nothing about tommy. even though right on the next page he pretends to exactly know his motives. fucking dickhead.
yes, he's polish. there's a thread on reddit where someone did actual research, tommy once said he has relatives in new orleans. they actually exist and their documentation is available, wiseau is a variation of their and his actual polish surname. sounds similar, i forgot what exactly it was.
there's also several poles in that thread saying that he makes the typical mistakes and has the typical accent of poles speaking english.
I've been watching an interview with roman polanski lately, and old one with dick gavett. It's funny, he has a very similar accent in a way - just without the bad and forced attempt to sound American. Hiding his heritage and pretending he's American is a thing that's pretty important to Tommy
Eli Evans
There's actually stuff we know about him. He's from Poland, spent some time in France after leaving for the west where he had a very serious incident with the French police, and came to the US in the early 90s. His money comes from real estate, there was a crisis in the late 80s on the American real estate market and it was possible to get nice houses for next to nothing. I know a guy from Brazil who came to the US at the same time and solely lives from the rent for a big house in Florida that he owns. He spends all his time either in a van in California or in Brazil.
Jayden Long
>once the fame grows you can't do it twice without the added awareness
I think it's more to do with the $$$ Wiseau's getting simply from clowning around at screenings. Honestly, I think the "he's just a man who followed his dream" narrative is BS and he's a cynical exploitative money grubber. Doesn't make the movie less entertaining though.
Brandon White
The fact that it was made with completely serious intentions and cost something like $7 million to produce with very strange decisions like simultaneously filming on digital and film and using green screen in completely unnecessary settings.
Cameron Jackson
he wasted 6 million on the movie I don't think he got even that back so far. read the book, it's a bad book written by a pretentious asshole, but it's a very interesting topic. there's no way Wiseau made this movie to make money from it.
he just wants to be famous. and now he has what he wanted. not the way he imagined, but he still has it. he's happy with travelling through north america and europe just clowning around at screenings.
Dominic Allen
It's truly superior to almost every other "so bad it's good" film. Every single line and image in the movie delivers in one way or another. It's so perfectly bizarre that it reveals something real--bpth as a document recording the dreams of its maker but also as a kind of negative theology of the human condition.
Most other bad movies are just bad. Like troll 2 is funny but there's nothing to it. Neil Breen (Fateful Findings) is ok but even he seems influenced by Wiseau and more self-aware
Carter Cox
Projection: The Post