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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
I can't decide if the author meant this book to be a comedy, a psychological analysis, or a tale of friendship through hardship. Of course, reality's never just one thing, but it's weird to have a book jump around so much.
You've got the hilarity of Tommy being eccentric, and everyone stunned.
Then there's the backstory of how Greg met Tommy, which is also fairly funny. Then Tommy breaks down, which is actually frightening. Greg's unlicensed pop analysis of Tommy's behavior was probably unnecessary; we could have drawn our own conclusions.
There's also a weird deep backstory about "T---------" in Eastern Europe (Poland?), then "Pierre" in France, then "The Birdman" in America, which is ostensibly about how Tommy got he way he currently is. The Wikipedia entry for Wiseau is a mess, and a lot it refers back to this book, with no other sources.
The end is like "he had a dream! he made it work!" which puts a weird bow on a book that was really about a man forcing others to live in his unpleasant delusion.
Overall, though, the book's pretty compelling. I love The Room (in that same sarcastic way all assholes do) and it was interesting to watch its messy birth.
You've got the hilarity of Tommy being eccentric, and everyone stunned.
Then there's the backstory of how Greg met Tommy, which is also fairly funny. Then Tommy breaks down, which is actually frightening. Greg's unlicensed pop analysis of Tommy's behavior was probably unnecessary; we could have drawn our own conclusions.
There's also a weird deep backstory about "T---------" in Eastern Europe (Poland?), then "Pierre" in France, then "The Birdman" in America, which is ostensibly about how Tommy got he way he currently is. The Wikipedia entry for Wiseau is a mess, and a lot it refers back to this book, with no other sources.
The end is like "he had a dream! he made it work!" which puts a weird bow on a book that was really about a man forcing others to live in his unpleasant delusion.
Overall, though, the book's pretty compelling. I love The Room (in that same sarcastic way all assholes do) and it was interesting to watch its messy birth.