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Post by Alexander The So-so on Nov 10, 2013 12:42:37 GMT -5
Pretty sure that's just because he hasn't read it yet. (With his limited English skills, he might not be able to, anyway) I know Tommy probably WAS a pain in the ass to deal with, but by Sestero's own admission, the guy gave him a place to live for several years and paid him a small fortune to be in The Room. And Sestero shows his gratitude by writing a book that continually points out how creepy, pathetic and awful he is? With friends like that... I don't think Sestero's book is as malicious as that. I feel that Greg wanted to provide viewers with a deeper understanding of Tommy. Becaause Wiseau is so mysterious and weird, lots of people only see him as a creepy, linguistically-challenged doofus who made a horrifically bad film. In some parts, Greg's book did have a "it gets even worse and weirder than you could've imagined" tone to it, but it also had a really sympathetic depiction of Tommy as well. You get to learn that that creepy, linguistically-challenged doofus is also a very lonely, unhappy, neurotic individual who is afraid of having close relationships with people. Greg's book might actually have a positive effect on Tommy's reputation, allowing people to have a better understanding of where Tommy comes from, and be a little more patient and understanding about his eccentricities. The only problem remaining is that there's still a lot of room for doubt about the truth behind Tommy's origins, but that's not Greg's fault. Tommy has just hidden his past so deeply and lied to people so much that Greg just has what he knows to go off of.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2013 17:55:10 GMT -5
I hope a major Hollywood studio adapts this movie into a film. And I'm deadly serious. It could be oscar bait material
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Nov 10, 2013 18:15:25 GMT -5
I hope a major Hollywood studio adapts this movie into a film. And I'm deadly serious. It could be oscar bait material It'd be like combining Nell and I Am Sam. edit* And by that, I mean combining the most obvious Oscar Bait films in one. Might destroy the universe.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2013 18:29:06 GMT -5
I hope a major Hollywood studio adapts this movie into a film. And I'm deadly serious. It could be oscar bait material It'd be like combining Nell and I Am Sam. edit* And by that, I mean combining the most obvious Oscar Bait films in one. Might destroy the universe. Well I meant along the lines like Ed Wood. Get Javier Bardem or Johnny Depp as Wiseau and promote it as a vehicle for a best leading actor nomination and Greg would be played by whatever young actor Hollywood is trying to push like Luke Hemsworth, Gosling, Arnie Hammer. Add in sprinkles of creepy intense moments of Tommy Wiseau that he could snap and may make a major beatdown on Greg or his family, have the old hippy friend played by Phillip Seymore Hoffman or Stanley Tucci warning Greg on how this man can be dangerous (possible foreshadowing), the old hippy friends confrontation with Tommy being intense and hard to watch due to the suspense, and make the ending heart warming that Tommy a man who is so untalented/weird/eccentric/possibly brain damaged went against all odds and achieved the American Dream thrice!
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Post by CrazySting on Nov 10, 2013 18:32:38 GMT -5
I hope a major Hollywood studio adapts this movie into a film. And I'm deadly serious. It could be oscar bait material Sestero said on an AMA on reddit there is interest in making a movie. Javier Bardem has apparently been tossed around as a name to play Tommy.
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Post by Lazy peon on Nov 10, 2013 22:06:42 GMT -5
"Tommy said he would recite to me the security code he’d written down earlier. While he recited the numbers, I was supposed to type them in. The security code was this: 1-2-3-4. I asked Tommy why he bothered writing that down. Tommy responded that he wrote it down because he could never remember it."
THIS BOOK IS GOLD
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Nov 10, 2013 22:53:20 GMT -5
It'd be like combining Nell and I Am Sam. edit* And by that, I mean combining the most obvious Oscar Bait films in one. Might destroy the universe. Well I meant along the lines like Ed Wood. Get Javier Bardem or Johnny Depp as Wiseau and promote it as a vehicle for a best leading actor nomination and Greg would be played by whatever young actor Hollywood is trying to push like Luke Hemsworth, Gosling, Arnie Hammer. Add in sprinkles of creepy intense moments of Tommy Wiseau that he could snap and may make a major beatdown on Greg or his family, have the old hippy friend played by Phillip Seymore Hoffman or Stanley Tucci warning Greg on how this man can be dangerous (possible foreshadowing), the old hippy friends confrontation with Tommy being intense and hard to watch due to the suspense, and make the ending heart warming that Tommy a man who is so untalented/weird/eccentric/possibly brain damaged went against all odds and achieved the American Dream thrice! Exactly what I was thinking. The whole time I was reading the book, it reminded me of the "Ed Wood" movie by Tim Burton.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Jan 1, 2014 2:12:32 GMT -5
I figured I would bump this as I got the book for Christmas and I just finished reading it today.
I found the book to be hilarious and while some seem to moan about Greg Sestero doing a hatchet job on Wiseau I reckon he went pretty easy on the guy as while I knew that some of cast over the years have hinted that Tommy wasn't particularly nice/easy to work with on set I had no idea that Tommy Wiseua was such a monumental cock to people.
Though I do agree that movie/mini series of how the movie was made could work.
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