{"id":1361,"date":"2017-12-01T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/auteur-the-disaster-artist\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:30:08","slug":"auteur-the-disaster-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avoutput.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/01\/auteur-the-disaster-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Auteur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The moment you finish watching Tommy Wiseau<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Room<\/a>\u201d, you are forever humbled. Reminded of how truly distorted the world could be. In its earnestness, you can not deny the depth of the endeavour it was meant to overcome. To portray reality as it appears to the man who directed, wrote, and starred in it. It might be the single greatest case for a vision of the mind as translated to the screen. It achieves its own perfection and it is born far from the minds of others, in some cultural desert, in a place that has only heard of such things as \u201cThe World\u201d. Other films are consistently trying to capture and recapture the world as we all agree it to be with a flair for the dramatic here, a splash of color there, maybe a gun or two, a sword or three. But maybe that game is rigged. Maybe we truly couldn\u2019t perceive or understand art without the complete opposite. Mr. Wiseau showed us a piece of his heart and we could do nothing but gawk and laugh, wondering aloud, \u201cHow did this happen?\u201d. With the release of The Disaster Artist<\/b>, we are finally able to understand, first hand, that \u201cThe Room\u201d isn\u2019t on planet Earth. It\u2019s on Tommy\u2019s Planet. Welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First, a piece of advice. See \u201cThe Room\u201d before sitting down for The Disaster Artist<\/b>. It\u2019s not necessarily required. The Disaster Artist<\/b> is not a parody, but the true saga of one man\u2019s quest to become everything he wanted to be. It will, however, give you some much needed context to the reason you would ever want to know about Tommy and crew to begin with. In fact, I would say watch it and wait a week. Let Tommy ruminate in your thoughts. Swirl him around like you just mixed the world\u2019s finest red wine with the world\u2019s best whiskey. That being said, the spawn of Judd Apatow\u2019s productions were so moved by the story of Tommy Wiseau, they decided to produce for us the tale as seen through the eyes of his best friend and co-star of \u201cThe Room\u201d, Greg Sestero<\/a>. And while The Disaster Artist<\/b> doesn\u2019t unwind all the mysteries, conversely it probably perpetuates most them, James Franco<\/a> was able to star in and direct an entrancing film that actually manages to be a laugh riot while never once telling a joke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite the story being naturally funny (see: Odd), the film still it is able to reach into the pit of your heart and make you feel something. It is as much like any other film based on a true story. It doesn\u2019t take go out of its way to make light of anything. It plays it as straight and earnest as Tommy Wiseau did with \u201cThe Room\u201d. The difference being, this takes place on Earth. James Franco is at the top of his game as Tommy Wiseau, and even beyond his immaculate recreation of Wiseau\u2019s eccentricities, you find a self-inflicted tortured soul. James was able to make Tommy seem both grounded and real while also creating the illusion that Tommy isn\u2019t even part of our world, moving in and out of space time or maybe some kind of mirage. It is the source of all the comedy in the film. How could one man be and yet we know he is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Co-starring is Dave Franco<\/a>, younger brother to James, as Greg Sestero, characterized as a young man who has yet to find his breath. Greg plays the unwitting caretaker to Tommy under the guise of a new best friend. And because James and Dave are brothers there is an air of familiarity that they don\u2019t even try to pretend isn\u2019t there. It might be the greatest strength to their dynamic. Even when their characters first meet, (follow me here) it plays like they know\u2026 that we know\u2026  that they are brothers in real life\u2026 playing two real life people who meet to become the biggest joke in cinema\u2026 and also maybe brothers themselves. All this to say Dave and James are naturals together. In just so much as miracles happened to produce \u201cThe Room\u201d, the same happened so that James and Dave could be born to play the guys who made \u201cThe Room\u201d. Miracles come in all forms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the cast is equally as fantastic, but they take up much less of the film. Still, they are the groundwork of the film that keeps it completely stationed on Earth. It has a bit of everyone you come to expect in a comedy from the past 15 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know what more there is to say. This turned out completely different from what I expected. It isn\u2019t a parody, but a genuine film meant to inspire people everywhere. Don\u2019t give up. Even if you have to reach into your bottomless bank account and spend 6 million dollars making the worst film ever made, don\u2019t give up. Even if you have to lie about where you are from, how old you are, who you may or may not have killed, even if you are hit by a car which may be the root cause of all the problems in your life, or your girl betrays you, don\u2019t give up. You might just make history. You might just become a true auteur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~* Tommy Wiseau\/10 *~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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