Episode 74: The Disaster Artist
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team discusses The Disaster Artist's "buddy comedy" structure, the meta narrative surrounding the making of The Room, and the endless enigmatic appeal of Tommy Wiseau as a person and character.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:08.9 | The podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 0:13.3 | Today we are talking about the 2017 film, The Disaster Artist, directed by James Franco, screenplay by Scott Neustadtar and Michael H Weber, based on the book, The Disaster Artist, My Life Inside the Room, the greatest bad movie ever made by Greg Sesterro and Tom Bissell. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:33.1 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:34.9 | And Alex Cayetos. |
| 0:36.3 | Hi. |
| 0:37.1 | So we wanted to do something fun since tis the season of April Fool's. |
| 0:42.0 | And so we thought it would be a good experience, a journey to go on to dive into the room in lots of different ways. |
| 0:49.1 | So we're talking about the disaster artist, the movie about the room. |
| 0:52.4 | And then over on Patreon, we decided to do an audio |
| 0:55.9 | commentary track, basically a live watch-along where we watched the room together as a team and had |
| 1:03.0 | some surprisingly insightful conversations. It's giving us a lot of credit. We tried. |
| 1:11.3 | We would weirdly just like talk about film for five minutes before being like, oh, wait, we're watching the room. |
| 1:15.9 | Let's get back to that. |
| 1:17.7 | We tried to do analysis as much as one can while watching the room. |
| 1:23.1 | And it was a lot of fun. |
| 1:24.5 | I feel like we learned things. |
| 1:26.2 | We went on a whole journey. |
| 1:28.0 | So that commentary is waiting for everyone over on the Beyond the Screenplay Patreon. |
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