Year 5, week 4: The Disaster Artist

This week's book:
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
By Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell

So last month for my reading challenge, one of the prompts was "read a memoir that was turned into a movie". I was struggling hard to think of a match for this prompt, until I came upon The Disaster Artist. If you don't know what this book/movie is, then you are lucky/missing out. 

In the early 2000s, one of the worst movies in history was made, and it was called The Room. The movie makes literally no sense and it was written, directed and starred by the same man: Tommy Wiseau. My husband and his friends have a love for this film, and so when I saw there was a book written by one of the stars of the film, I thought I should listen to the book via the library's audiobook selection. I had made it about an hour in when the hubby said he might want to listen to it as well. So that's what we did while I nursed the little one at night. Since we listened to the audiobook and the author read the book, we were about to hear him do his Tommy Wiseau imitation, which was pretty dead on to be honest. Tommy Wiseau's speech pattern/accent is downright silly. 

I'll say it wasn't for me to be honest, but then again I don't love the film and I have serious questions about who and what is wrong with Tommy Wiseau (what most of the book is about). But if you are a fan of the original film, or the film adaptation they made of this book (starring James Franco and his crew) I would definitely check this book out. It's chock full of back stories and such. 

Notes from the Hubby: “Oh hi, Mark!”

I watched the film adaptation of The Disaster Artist before reading this book, but it was still… is fascinating the right word? Well, I’ll use it. It was fascinating to hear these behind-the-scenes stories about a movie so utterly awful, yet you just can’t look away. Granted, I’ve only seen The Room via Rifftrax (which I highly recommend if you can), but watching “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” is a strange experience. Despite the craziness of the film, the stories about its production are somehow even crazier.

If you have seen The Room, or at least laughed at some of its often quoted lines, I recommend reading The Disaster Artist.