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OT: Opinion:- The Room by Tommy Wiseau is a Hitchcockian thriller.

posted a year ago by Horrorlover656 (24)
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Everyman hero in extraordinary circumstances: Johnny, your average American nice guy who loves baseball.

Hitchcock ice blonde: Lisa

Woman who is the voice of conscience: Michelle

Suspense: Lisa and Mark are having an affair without Johnny knowing. However, we know this - that's suspense.

Humour(Bonus points if dark humour): Jokes about sex life, abuse victims.

Sex(or sexual perversity) plays a key part in the story. All of those steamy scenes between Lisa and Johnny & Lisa and Mark come under this. Belly button is an example of sexual perversity.

Macguffins and Checkov's guns: Johnny's take recorder(macguffin). Gun stolen from Chris R(Checkov's gun).

Chase scenes: Mark and Johnny running through the forest.

Murder: Johnny kills himself. Peter is killed by a fall while playing baseball( Also worth noting here is the fact that many Hitchcock characters 'fall' to their deaths.

It is also set in San Francisco and has an air of surrealism akin to Vertigo. Those greenscreens during the rooftop scenes evoke a sense of Hitchcockian unreality( which Hitchcock achieved via rear projection).

"Good evening."

[–] swanstep (2616) a year ago

Heh-heh. I've remembered little from seeing The Room long ago and I'm sure that what I *have* remembered is now blurred together with my memories of James Franco's movie *about* The Room, The Performance Artists IIRC. *But* I dare say that you are right that Wiseau's script was kind of bolted together from various noir and thriller tropes and cliches including some notable Hitchcockisms. Wiseau had nothing to say about anything really nor any particular story he wanted to tell, rather he just wanted to 'make a (any) movie' so he made up a fairly generic movie script from, as it were, the spare parts of previous movies. The joke is that a lot of the screenwriting in Hollywood is just as silly and empty and fraudulent as Wiseau's offering, only it's typically more polished and ultimately gets made with lots of FX and huge budgets that Wiseau doesn't have.