The Disaster Artist | Watch Along
Added 2025-04-26 15:00:23 +0000 UTC
Comments
So I waited to watch this until I was able to get my hands on the book. The book differs quite a bit in terms of how Tommy and Greg's friendship was portrayed. The book, which was written by Greg himself, depicts their friendship as incredibly toxic. Tommy was very manipulative and what many people would consider just abusive. Greg described Tommy as "being able to drain the life and light out of someone." It was so bad that Greg moved out of the apartment not because he got a girlfriend but because he just wanted to get away from Tommy, and once he was away from him he felt happier than he ever felt. Also he left well before any script for "The Room" was written. It really paints Tommy as this lonely and extremely jealous person, but Greg would stay for as long as he did because Tommy would give him money (which in the book Greg would mention that Tommy would call money "candy"). I've done some light Google searches but it does seem that the two are still friends. Alright so I also just want to give some examples of where the story of the two is different in the book and the movie. First the move to LA wasn't two friends deciding to go, Tommy was supposed to just sublet his apartment to Greg and a few months later Tommy just moved in without warning. So if you read the above paragraph and thought "well why would he star in Tommy's movie?" Its because he offered Greg so much money that he literally couldn't say no to it. Like it was enough that he could live out in LA for a long time, also Tommy offered to buy him a new car. Another thing that the movie removes is that Greg was starting to get roles, not big roles or anything but he was getting calls and was moving his way up as an actor. The turnover with the crew was really downplayed in the movie, they changed crews MULTIPLE times in the book because just how insane Tommy would act on set and would sling homophobic slurs as they walked out. I don't want just recap the entire book so I'll just do one more. The Bryan Cranston scene never happens in the book, but it is true that it was Tommy that made Greg shave his beard and it was super weird because Tommy had the behind the scenes crew follow them into the bathroom as Tommy tried to direct Greg in how to shave his beard. Edit: A couple more. Tommy had this thing about not allowing people to speak French around him, its why the word fiancΓ© is never said during the entire movie and instead everyone says "future wife/husband." There was no big blowoff on the last day of shooting, but Tommy did tackle Greg at some point because he said something in French, and that made it into the movie.
Bany
2025-07-21 23:40:04 +0000 UTCMaple crying at the story of Tommy and Greg fully sent me
SabotheHunter
2025-04-27 17:45:06 +0000 UTCI had a BLAST watching you see this! I can't believe Maple was cry-laughing rather than laugh-crying, what a special moment to have on tape haha -- the crying because of the emotions and then laughing 'WTF' at yourself, making it even funnier, haha. Yeah, watching the Room and the Disaster Artist in order makes for a special kind of experience that's hard to recreate any other way. Cheers!
Dan
2025-04-27 09:33:23 +0000 UTC
