{"id":8748,"date":"2010-03-12T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2010-03-12T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:00:20","slug":"tgif-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/03\/12\/tgif-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF: The Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rpfPmvG6CHI&amp;NR=1<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You&#8217;re right.\u00a0 The computer business is too competitive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Room_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Room<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 A movie so astonishingly bad that it&#8217;s become a cult classic.\u00a0 It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Sirk\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Sirk<\/a> by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Wood\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Wood<\/a>.\u00a0 No, that&#8217;s not being clever.\u00a0 That&#8217;s really what it&#8217;s like.<\/p>\n<p>The writer, producer, director and star is the now legendary Tommy Wiseau, the Orson Welles of bad movie making.\u00a0 <em>The Room <\/em>is the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Lynch\" target=\"_blank\">David Lynch<\/a> would make if he somehow didn&#8217;t know he was David Lynch.\u00a0 Irony may return to myth.\u00a0 But this evidently is what irony can pass through along the way &#8212; a place where the audience not only knows more than the characters, it knows more than the <em>creator<\/em>.\u00a0 Just.\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n<p>After the jump, a couple of very brief clips (7 seconds, 21 seconds) that capture some of the movie&#8217;s most celebrated moments.\u00a0 And then, after that, if you can bear it, a scene of such <em>grand guignol <\/em>melodrama that it, well, deconstructs itself.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;You&#8217;re tearing me apart, Lisa!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc&amp;feature=related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, hi Mark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISXiFJS9D5A<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fed up with this world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LR1oG8-JajM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rpfPmvG6CHI&amp;NR=1 &#8220;You&#8217;re right.\u00a0 The computer business is too competitive.&#8221; The Room.\u00a0 A movie so astonishingly bad that it&#8217;s become a cult classic.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Douglas Sirk by way of Ed Wood.\u00a0 No, that&#8217;s not being clever.\u00a0 That&#8217;s really what it&#8217;s like. 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