Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"

Green-screened, Phantom Menace-style. They did a 360-degree shot in SF and filmed the scenes in a studio in L.A.

In fact, almost all of it was filmed in LA, I think, which is why they take great pains to insert "THIS IS SAN FRANCISCO HERE IS TOMMY ON A STREETCAR HERE IS A BRIDGE" shots.

I thought so - it looks weird
I like how mark almost murders tah psychologist guy on the roo fthen he's like - "uh sorry man
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJRKC3nKCTE

same acting skill

http://www.shadesofday.com/trailer.htm

What's up, Mr. Pistol?

iz tht aanother wiseau film?

Friday
Friday

please give me more wisea wisdom

this movie seriously gets better every time you see it. Sestero constantly asking "what's going on here? why are you doing this?" every scene is possibly the best part of the film now.

It really is a majestic offering isn't it? I love that strange young college boy who seems at once mentally challenged and yet also in college? He doesnt get the message "see you later we are going up stairs to ball" and just goes up to their bedroom and jumps on their bed like some deranged puppy - yet they are delighted with him not like "wtf get away you dick"

also one thing I never noticed is how weird the whole thing with Claudette and Denny is on the roof with Chris-R, because the film suggests that they just met each other for the first time like two minutes prior, so I don't know why she feels the need to yell at him like that

btw this is my favorite Room-related anything, it's one of the only parody videos that actually captures the spirit of the movie quite well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHoASUCa_0s

that is the best - she really goes beerserk - what must that poor grandma actor have been thinking ? "my career is over"
I also love the fact that they take the man with a gun away and retun in like 30 seconds but he went to jail in that time frame

I just imdb'd her, she didn't really have a "career" per se but apparently she was on an episode of That's My Bush! I just love the way she turns around every phrase - "it doesn't matter"..."it matters a great deal!!" "stop ganging up on me"..."well it's about time someone ganged up on you!!" (again, they just met)

i showed this to a friend of mine recently. he didnt laugh once but told me after it ended that he found it "strangely moving"!

Maybe he once had a girlfriend who liked to wear his ties and cheat on him.

Possibly.

i can get why someone would find it moving. it's clearly very deeply felt by wiseau, and it seems like such a personal document of pain + misery.

that freind of yours is strange

You're so beautiful Lisa

sad at no lisa rear shots while in bed but Tommy W ones a plenty

https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/179171_10151024377048058_318012754_s.jpg

I think Sestero said something along those lines, that Tommy did actually have a Lisa, a Mark, and a Denny in his life (which may explain why Denny's a major character even though he has pretty much nothing to do with the plot)

lets play football at a distance of three feet!

Question: Is it worth paying a 50% surcharge to see The Room at a screening where Wiseau and Sestero are scheduled to appear?

How much is the total cost?

I loved seeing it live, and need to go to a screening again sometime.

Wiseau is not alive anymore

I never got to go to one (Chicago, which is 150 miles away, is the closest he's ever gotten) but my brother went and said it was probably the best thing he's ever been to.

Happy Birthday Greg Sestero. I hope his book will be good.

How much is the total cost?

$15 (compared to a standard $10).

i say yes, go. absolutely.

dude I went to see the showing w/Wiseau&Sestero when they came to town here. HOLY SHIT. on this tour Tommy Wiseau asks people from the audience to come onstage to play a game & win some Room-related prizes. then after like 40 people have lined up he tells them they have to catch this crumpled-up water bottle that Sestero throws at them twenty-five times in a row without dropping it. why? there is no explanation. who really knows if dude is just playing up his weirdo angle because that's all he's got left, but both times I've seen him I have thought this guy is literally the most absurd human being. also he wears a second belt just around the bottom of his ass, presumably to make his ass look good.

Tommy Wiseau asks people from the audience to come onstage to play a game & win some Room-related prizes. then after like 40 people have lined up he tells them they have to catch this crumpled-up water bottle that Sestero throws at them twenty-five times in a row without dropping it. why? there is no explanation.

That makes it a perfect Room-related game then.

he is a demoen

I've always been one to suspect that some guys try to act a lot weirder in public than they actually are, but based on everything I've read about Tommy he really is that strange. Sestero's book should shine a lot of light on this, he's already said that it really asks more questions than it answers, but it should explain a lot of the stranger lines in the movie

how did wiseau get the money to make this thing anyway?

that'll be in the book! (apparently he claimed to import jeans or something, but really who knows. apparently the cast/crew was paid pretty well!)

his actual response to that question:

"We import from Korea the leather jackets that we design here in America. If you work, you have to save money, right? I didn't get money from the sky."

I love that first sentence

haha - he speaks weirdo

i love this quote

AVC: What do you think Philip Haldiman brought to the role of Denny?

TW: I think he brought a lot stuff. One thing was people actually, he’s really retarded a little bit.

I’m working about vampires movie as well, it’s the other movie where we’re shooting in San Francisco again. I say shooting, I didn’t say shot, because somebody misquote me and I hate that. Somebody wrote “He is shooting,” I say, “I’m not shooting, I shot or shooting, I know what the present past or whatever you talk about.”

how could someone misquote this???

these quotations are golden - more

During some of the emotional scenes, like the “You’re tearing me apart” scene, how did you work with the actors or with yourself to draw on these emotions? There was so much emotion in a lot of the scenes.

One of the things is I’m very pro this rehearsal process. You see, the emotion you draw from your experiences but also I believe it does help me because of my background in the theater. You can draw emotion, you can fake emotion, but I don’t believe in be fake, to be honest with you. I can do the scene with you right now if you want me to. Give me the words I will present it to you. You want to test me, it’s fine with me, Rachel. By the way, we have several people who have test me and guess what? They lost.

(later)

I am going to take you up on your offer to test you on your ability to add emotion to a scene. Let’s say I stood you up for drinks.

Are you talking to Tommy or the character Johnny?

Johnny.

Okay, Johnny, sure no problem. So Rachel, why didn’t you show up for the… we’re supposed to drink, right?

We were, I’m sorry I didn’t come, I met someone else.

(Screaming) Why are you doing this to me, you know? I spent my time. Why you did this, right? You supposed to show up 2:00, I was waiting for you.

I met someone else, I’m sorry.

Sorry doesn’t cut it, I’m sorry! Sorry doesn’t cut it, what do you think?

I think that I can make my own decisions, Johnny.

I’m sorry Rachel, but this is not how it works, you know? I left Lisa for you and I thought we had going on something together and now what?

Maybe you should go back to Lisa then.

Yeah, yeah, I almost got into an accident for your information. You know that, don’t you? Did Mark tell you about it? You confuse me with another boyfriend, my name is Johnny.

Can I make it up to you and cook you dinner?

Are you promise?

I promise.

Okay, I will try. What time?

7:00.

Okay, I will be there. Scene! So who lost?

I lost.

Thank you, I didn’t say you lost. That was good sport.

I never viewed acting as a domination sport where it was me vs my scenemates

*revelation*

he is rather intimidating on Tim and Eric

Sestero was born in Walnut Creek, California and grew up in Danville, California. He is of French and American descent with dual citizenships, and speaks both French and English.[1] During his freshman year of high school, Sestero wrote a screenplay, a sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone, with a leading role for himself opposite actor Macaulay Culkin. Sestero submitted the screenplay to Hughes Productions and received a commendatory letter from the late 1980s icon John Hughes.[2]

Sestero - what a prettyboy

http://assets1.theroomsoundboard.com/LeaveYourCommentsPocket.mp3