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{Dоwnlоаd/Rеаd PDF Bооk} the Room Kindle THE ROOM PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Hubert Selby | 240 pages | 25 Oct 2011 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141195674 | English | London, United Kingdom The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Episode Guide. The program began Added to Watchlist. The Evolution of Armie Hammer. Some of the Movies and TV i like. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Episodes Seasons. Edit Cast Series cast summary: Amanda Keller Self - Presenter episodes, Miguel Maestre Self - Presenter episodes, Barry Du Bois Genres: Talk-Show. Edit Did You Know? Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Official Sites: Official site. Country: Australia. Language: English. By Jordain Carney 1h ago. By Rebecca Klar and Maggie Miller 1h ago. By Jordain Carney 5h ago. Most Popular. More News. By Celine Castronuovo 1h ago. By Morgan Chalfant 1h ago. By Sylvan Lane 1h ago. By Morgan Chalfant 8h ago. By John Bowden 4h ago. By Rebecca Kheel 1h ago. More From The Web Sponsored. Opinion Opinion. What America's Thinking — 1w ago. Rising — 1d ago. The Room: Old Sins • The Room is a American independent drama film written, produced, and directed by Tommy Wiseau , who stars in the film alongside Juliette Danielle and Greg Sestero. A significant portion of the film is dedicated to a series of unrelated subplots , most of which involve at least one supporting character and are left unresolved due to the film's inconsistent narrative structure. The work was reportedly intended to be semi- autobiographical in nature; according to Wiseau, the title alludes to the potential of a room to be the site of both good and bad events. A number of publications have labeled The Room as one of the worst films ever made. An assistant professor of film studies was the first to describe The Room as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies. Although Wiseau has retrospectively described the film as a black comedy , audiences have generally viewed it as a poorly made drama, an opinion shared by some of the cast. A film of the same title based on the book, directed by and starring James Franco , was released on December 1, ; the book and film received widespread acclaim and numerous award nominations. The Room also inspired an unofficial video game adaptation, The Room Tribute , released on Newgrounds in She seduces his best friend, Mark, and the two begin a secret affair. Meanwhile, Johnny, having overheard Lisa confess her infidelity to her mother, Claudette, attaches a tape recorder to their phone in an attempt to identify her lover. Denny, a neighboring college student Johnny financially and emotionally supports, has a run-in with an armed drug dealer, Chris-R, but Johnny and Mark overpower and detain him. Denny also lusts after Lisa, and confesses this to Johnny, who understands and encourages him to instead pursue one of his classmates. Johnny spirals into a mental haze and calls upon Peter — his and Mark's friend and a psychologist — for help. Mark also confides in Peter that he feels guilty about his affair. When Peter asks Mark if the affair is with Lisa, Mark attacks Peter and attempts to kill him, but they quickly reconcile. At a surprise birthday party for Johnny, his friend Steven catches Lisa kissing Mark while the other guests are outside and confronts them about the affair. Johnny announces that he and Lisa are expecting a child, although Lisa later reveals she lied about it in order to cover up the truth about the affair. At the end of the evening, Lisa flaunts her affair in front of Johnny, who physically and verbally attacks Mark. After the party, Johnny locks himself in the bathroom in despair. When he leaves, he retrieves the cassette recorder that he attached to the phone and listens to an intimate call between Lisa and Mark. Outraged, Johnny berates Lisa for betraying him, prompting her to end their relationship permanently and live with Mark. Johnny then has an emotional breakdown, angrily destroying his apartment and committing suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. Hearing the commotion, Denny, Mark, and Lisa rush up the stairs to find his dead body. Mark blames Lisa for Johnny's death, admonishes her for her deceitful behavior, and tells her to get out of his life. Denny tells Lisa and Mark to leave him with Johnny, and they step back to give him a moment, but ultimately they all stay and comfort each other as the police arrive. Tommy Wiseau originally wrote The Room as a play in Wiseau has been secretive about how he obtained funding for the project, but told Entertainment Weekly that he made some of the money by importing leather jackets from Korea. Over several years, he had amassed a fortune through entrepreneurship and real estate development in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Wiseau's actions further caused the film's cost to skyrocket, according to Sestero. He wanted to be the first director to film an entire movie simultaneously in two formats. He achieved this by using a custom-built apparatus that housed both cameras side by side and required two crews to operate. Wiseau selected actors from thousands of head shots , [6] although most of the cast had never been in a full-length film. Sestero had limited film experience, and only agreed to work as part of the production crew as a favor for Wiseau, with whom he had been friends for some time before production began. Sestero then agreed to play the Mark character after Wiseau fired the original actor on the first day of filming. Sestero was uncomfortable filming his sex scenes, and was allowed to keep his jeans on while shooting them. According to Greg Ellery, Juliette Danielle had "just gotten off the bus from Texas" when shooting began, and "the cast watched in horror" as Wiseau jumped on Danielle, immediately beginning to film their "love scene. Danielle had been cast as Michelle, but was given the Lisa role when the original actress was dismissed because her "personality Even though Kyle Vogt who played Peter told the production team that he only had a limited amount of time for the project, not all of his scenes were filmed by the time his schedule ran out. Despite the fact that Peter was to play a pivotal role in the climax, Vogt left the production; his lines in the last half of the film were given to Ellery, whose character is never introduced, explained, or addressed by name. The original script was significantly longer than the one used and featured a series of lengthy monologues; it was edited on-set by the cast and script supervisor Sandy Schklair, who found much of the dialogue incomprehensible. An anonymous cast member told Entertainment Weekly that the script contained "stuff that was just unsayable. I know it's hard to imagine there was stuff that was worse. But there was. Much of the dialogue is repetitive, especially Johnny's. His speech contains several catchphrases : he begins almost every conversation with "Oh, hi! Lisa often stops discussions about Johnny by saying "I don't want to talk about it. In The Disaster Artist , Sestero recalls that Wiseau planned a subplot in which Johnny was revealed to be a vampire because of Wiseau's fascination with the creatures. Principal photography lasted four months. The many rooftop sequences were shot on the soundstage, and exteriors of San Francisco were greenscreened in. The film employed over people, and Wiseau is credited as an actor, writer, producer, director, and executive producer. Other executive producer credits include Chloe Lietzke and Drew Caffrey. According to Sestero, Lietzke was Wiseau's ESL tutor and had no involvement in the film, and Caffrey, who had been an entrepreneurial mentor to Wiseau, died in In a February 11, Entertainment Weekly article, Schklair announced that he desired credit for directing The Room. Schklair told EW that Wiseau became too engrossed with his acting duties to direct the film properly and asked him to "tell the actors what to do, and yell 'Action' and 'Cut' and tell the cameraman what shots to get. The story is corroborated by one of the film's actors who requested anonymity and by Sestero in The Disaster Artist. I don't know, probably only in America it can happen, this kind of stuff"; he similarly implied that Schklair's abandoning of the film during filming was justification for not receiving such a credit. The Room is considered to be semi-autobiographical as it draws on specific incidents from Wiseau's own life, such as the details of how Johnny came to San Francisco and met Lisa, and the nature of Johnny and Mark's friendship. Sestero further postulates that Wiseau based Lisa's explicit conniving on the character Tom Ripley , after Wiseau had a profound emotional reaction to the film The Talented Mr. Ripley , and matches elements of its three main characters to those in The Room ; Sestero has likewise indicated that the character Mark was named for the Ripley actor Matt Damon , whose first name Wiseau had misheard. The script is characterized by numerous inexplicable mood and personality shifts in characters. In analyzing the film's abrupt tone shifts, Sestero highlighted two scenes in particular. In the first scene, Johnny enters the rooftop in the middle of a tirade about being accused of domestic abuse, only to become abruptly cheerful upon seeing Mark; a few moments later, he laughs inappropriately upon learning that a friend of Mark's had been severely beaten.
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