James Franco managed to get Tommy Wiseau on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and there was a small hope that Wiseau wouldn’t sound quite as crazy. Hope is the denial of reality at times it would seem. He’s still as odd as can be and he laughs at nearly everything as though he’s nervous that he might say something wrong or out of turn. One thing you can’t deny about Wiseau is that he has a lot of confidence when being in front of people. The only thing about it is that he’s such an odd duck that you have to wonder why he can’t seem to stand back and see what everyone else is seeing from an objective standpoint. His movie wasn’t that great.
If he’d done more than just The Room and had other titles that had been given great renown it might be different. But to date he’s done several projects, but The Room is the one that gets him noticed and it’s completely awful. I get the feeling that anyone that says this movie is so bad it’s good is being polite or is alluding to the irony of the fact that The Room has gotten attention for being so absolutely dreadful. Somehow Wiseau has gotten the attention that most directors want by being one of the worst in the business.
It seems to work however, so let’s just shrug our shoulders and move on. But to be quite honest even on a live show he seems to have the emotional range of a brick, and close to the same facial expression. Part of me wants to believe that this recognition he’s received thus far is nothing more than an extended 15 minutes of fame and will be over eventually, but it doesn’t seem to be going away. Other actors, directors, and even writers have bombed out this badly and never once been given this kind of attention. So what’s special about Tommy Wiseau?
I can be honest and say that I’d rather focus on other actors in Hollywood that aren’t as talented and yet somehow make a decent contribution to films. Those individuals have at least put in their time and done the work and yet are still unappreciated while Tommy Wiseau is being lavished with attention for producing work that’s so inherently terrible that it’s considered thought-provoking. Hmm, this film is really awful, I wonder what the director was thinking when he did this?
Um, who cares?
We’ve heard from Wiseau before concerning the film, we’ve learned a lot of what it was about, and yet still people seem to feel the need to analyze it and pore it over again and again in a vain effort to somehow find deeper meaning within the strange and awkward scenes that make up the entirety of the movie. For some odd reason it’s almost as though people want this movie to make sense when it truth it’s like staring into a blank corner expecting to find something that just isn’t there.
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