The Disaster Artist is a movie directed by James Franco. He played Tommy Wiseau, the weird self-made producer, director, and writer of the cult movie The Room. His brother, Dave Franco, played Greg Sestero, an actor-model who is credited as the book’s author, but my feeling is that a ghostwriter made it. Doesn’t matter because this time, both movie and book are very entertaining, almost like The Room itself.
Not Necessarily a Parallel
Don’t think that Franco kept the script like the book’s narration, but the result wasn’t unpleasant at all, on the contrary, he made Wiseau kind of funny. Now please bear with me and try to follow some directions, while excusing my unavoidable spoiler inserts. The spoilers are unavoidable because most of the tale is based on real facts.
Greg Sestero posing with The Disaster Artist, the Book
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I have to say that the movie and the book seem to be two different versions of the same happening, eventually leading to the same outcome. My article here is a short review of The Disaster Artist, the book. In order to not reject any of the endeavors (book, movie and The Room) and especially if you are young and not the most informed person in the world, presuming that generally you like to read and also watching movies, the order to approach them should be as follows: first watch The Disaster Artist movie, then read the book (being different versions only leads to a more entertaining enterprise) and finally, watch The Room, that if you haven’t watched it already.
The Disaster Artist, the Book
The book’s title is “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, and it was written by Greg Sestero in collaboration with a journalist/writer, Tom Bissell. Sestero doesn’t strike me as the intellectual type (the book is very well written, in style and structure), but certainly, he is the data provider. It is autobiographical, written in two interlacing planes, one describing his own history and struggle to become an actor, and the other plane being his contribution to The Room, the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”.
Besides Sestero’s biography, Wiseau is the main character in this plot-less book. Contrary to the adaptation, Wiseau is presented as a selfish, envious, dumb, ignorant and apparently avaricious guy with a delusional ego. Totally unfunny, it seems inexplicable how Sestero, the good-looking and unsullied character in the story ends with Wiseau in the same project. It proves that eventually if someone unconditionally believes in one’s dreams, everything is possible. The Room is one of a kind as a movie. If you want to say that The Room it’s the worst movie ever made, I can name at least three others, much nonsensical. After all, The Room achieved its cult status.
James Franco and Dave Franco in The Disaster Artist, the Movie
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Franco’s adaptation presents Wiseau in a funny, somehow likable way, which gradually mesmerized Greg. Doesn’t matter that physically, Wiseau’s and Sestero’s characters were the opposite: Greg was the tall one, and Tommy was short. Initially, Greg wasn’t invited to share the Los Angeles’ apartment with Wiseau, he was offered a favorable option to rent it, at a third of the market value. Tommy Wiseau didn’t hide his envy for Greg’s apparently fruitful steps in Hollywood, agents, auditions, modeling, etc.
The book, published in October 2013 is a strong enough incentive to want to watch The Room or to re-watch it (if that’s the case) in a new light.
The Room – The Honest Trailer
What will pop again in one’s memory, and will stay there as long as possible, shared around after that in private jokes are some memorable lines from this unintentional explosion “in a supernova of unintentional genius.”
I did not hit her, it’s not true, it’s bullshit, I did not hit her, I did naaaat. Oh, hi, Mark!
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