This is the kind of thing that should normally never happen in the film industry; a confusing mix of filmmaking malpractice with a possible stroke of genius.
Tommy Wiseau is the star, writer, director and producer of The Room, which is referred to as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”. Wiseau will be attending an Orlando multi-media convention, Mega Con, to host the showing of his film as part of his Love is Blind tour to show his movie across the country.
The Room has a cult following and people gladly go to see this movie along with Wiseau; but this defies expectations as it is confirmed with little to no dispute that the film was horribly written, acted, and directed.
There are several plotholes as well as narrative detours that never get completed. Lisa’s mother reveals she has breast cancer in the middle of the film; the response to this is relatively mild and the topic is never brought up again. The young man, Denny, gets in a conflict with a drug dealer to whom he owes money and who almost kills Denny. The situation is never mentioned again nor is the potential possibility that Denny makes illegal drug deals.
There are other small events that make no sense and play no part in the story. The acting and writing are horrible and many of Tommy’s lines had to be dubbed over. One has to wonder how a movie like this gets treated as a success.
The film experiences what I refer to as “The Producers” effect, where a show that should be a failure is instead a success. Fans of the movie seem so amused at how bad the movie is that they have to see it again. Even in it’s premiere, people who did not walk out were rolling on the floor, laughing not at any intentional humor but at disbelief in how clumsily the film was pieced together.
Wiseau is in a sense a genius in that he currently banks on the movie’s bad rep. He makes claim that the film was meant to be funny as a non-traditional dark humor. He shows the film all over encouraging people to laugh or throw spoons (a common audience activity in response to the unexplained photos of spoons in the background). An anonymous cast member says this is just making the best out of a disaster, “He is a nice guy. But he is full of s---. He was trying to put together a drama.”
Partly disgusted that a bad filmmaker can achieve this level of success, and partly proud for a guy who can take a failure and turn it around into his own kind of fame with a cult following, I will be attending Wiseau’s event at Mega Con on March 26. I will likely be writing on the event as well as other possible stories from the convention.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246031_2,00.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/MVDS175KNE.DTL
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246031,00.html
http://www.megaconvention.com/view/announcements/99/
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Tommy Wiseau is the star, writer, director and producer of The Room, which is referred to as the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”. Wiseau will be attending an Orlando multi-media convention, Mega Con, to host the showing of his film as part of his Love is Blind tour to show his movie across the country.
The Room has a cult following and people gladly go to see this movie along with Wiseau; but this defies expectations as it is confirmed with little to no dispute that the film was horribly written, acted, and directed.
There are several plotholes as well as narrative detours that never get completed. Lisa’s mother reveals she has breast cancer in the middle of the film; the response to this is relatively mild and the topic is never brought up again. The young man, Denny, gets in a conflict with a drug dealer to whom he owes money and who almost kills Denny. The situation is never mentioned again nor is the potential possibility that Denny makes illegal drug deals.
There are other small events that make no sense and play no part in the story. The acting and writing are horrible and many of Tommy’s lines had to be dubbed over. One has to wonder how a movie like this gets treated as a success.
The film experiences what I refer to as “The Producers” effect, where a show that should be a failure is instead a success. Fans of the movie seem so amused at how bad the movie is that they have to see it again. Even in it’s premiere, people who did not walk out were rolling on the floor, laughing not at any intentional humor but at disbelief in how clumsily the film was pieced together.
Wiseau is in a sense a genius in that he currently banks on the movie’s bad rep. He makes claim that the film was meant to be funny as a non-traditional dark humor. He shows the film all over encouraging people to laugh or throw spoons (a common audience activity in response to the unexplained photos of spoons in the background). An anonymous cast member says this is just making the best out of a disaster, “He is a nice guy. But he is full of s---. He was trying to put together a drama.”
Partly disgusted that a bad filmmaker can achieve this level of success, and partly proud for a guy who can take a failure and turn it around into his own kind of fame with a cult following, I will be attending Wiseau’s event at Mega Con on March 26. I will likely be writing on the event as well as other possible stories from the convention.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246031_2,00.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/MVDS175KNE.DTL
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246031,00.html
http://www.megaconvention.com/view/announcements/99/