History Film / TheRoom2003

** And then after [[spoiler:Lisa]] is gone: "Get out. Get out! ''GET OUT OFF MY LIFE!''"
** And then Mark to Lisa after [[spoiler: Johnny dies]]: "GET OUT OF MY LIFE, YOU BITCH!"[[note]][[AudienceParticipation "It's her house!"]][[/note]]

* InformedFlaw: Lisa complains that Johnny is "boring" the first time she talks with her mother. Johnny has a number of flaws (probably unintentionally so, see below), but being boring definitely isn't one of them.
* InformedKindness: Johnny is ostensibly an emotionally fragile NiceGuy. This shilling is kind of undermined by his laughing at domestic abuse that landed someone in the hospital.

* IronicEcho: "You just a chicken. [-CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!-]"

* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Averted. In the alley scene, Mike gives Johnny a detailed description of when Claudette and Lisa walked in on him and Michelle having sex. Despite the fact that the audience already saw the scene play out earlier in the movie, and Mike's retelling added no new information (though it did provide some goofy mugging and the infamous "me underwears" line). It's another example of Wiseau's bizarre "Show, ''then'' tell" method of storytelling.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Lisa first seduces Mark, the latter mentions "the music" which implies that Lisa actually set up the background music before opening the door.

** Peter's final scene before vanishing entirely is the tuxedo football game in the alley. When he falls over he makes a disgusted face into the camera and says, "That's it, I'm done."
** Steve, who replaces Peter, is an unexpected character at the birthday party and becomes morally outraged at the other characters, as if he were an audience member who had enough and ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo''-style walks into the film to chew them out.

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Mike falling against some bins is apparently a life-threatening ailment if his and everybody else's reactions are anything to go by. He limps off supported by Mark, who asks if he wants to see a doctor, even though he only got some minor bruising at worst.

* NecktieHeadband: Lisa sports one while she and Johnny get ''very'' drunk on Scotchka before their "second" love scene.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Sestero's book reveals what many always suspected: large portions of the film (such as a cheating fiancée, the bank being unwilling to cash a check from out of state, and a few of the "weirdos" encountered at the Bay to Breakers run) are [[WriteWhatYouKnow based on things that happened to Wiseau]]. He also claims that a lot of what Mark says is 'Tommy altered' versions of stuff he said to him.
* RememberTheNewGuy: With about 20 minutes left, a new character, Steven (whose name is mentioned only in the credits) suddenly appears and becomes deeply involved in the plot. Presumably, we're not supposed to notice that he suddenly appeared from nowhere without an introduction. WordOfGod is that Steven is supposed to be a [[ActorSwap replacement]] for the psychologist character Peter (whose actor left the production), but the audience is given no hint of this; indeed, Steven looks nothing like Peter. In [[Literature/TheDisasterArtist Sestero's book]], he wonders why Peter's lines in the party scene weren't given to an already-established character, like Mike or Denny.

Two books have been written about the film. In 2013, Greg Sestero in cooperation with Tom Bissell wrote ''[[Literature/TheDisasterArtist The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]'', a book detailing not only the making of the film but also his long and troubled friendship with Wiseau. Said book has been adapted into a film, ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'', directed by and starring Creator/JamesFranco as Wiseau, with his younger brother Creator/DaveFranco as Sestero. Philip Haldiman, who played Denny, wrote a comic book called ''[[http://vimeo.com/59931490 My Big Break]]'', the first part of which covers his audition.

In 2018, Robyn Paris, who played a minor character in the film, launched a comedy webseries called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPo3KjXbnjM The Room Actors: Where Are They Now,]]'' featuring fellow former actors of the film (including the aforementioned Haldiman) and following their (fictional) lives 15 years later. Needless to say, the experience has marked them deeply − and hilariously.

* AbortedArc: The film is mostly made of B-plots that go nowhere: Denny's drug problem and his debt to Chris-R, Claudette's breast cancer and mortgage, Peter and Mark's feud, etc. According to Sestero, Carolyn Minnott (Claudette's actress) did ask Wiseau several times whether the breast cancer would come up again, only to be told that "It's a twist" and eventually just going along with it.

** Johnny and Mark are best friends ... we're told this around five times. In this case it's rather {{inverted|Trope}}, as it's unlikely anyone would deduce this merely by watching, considering what a hilariously [[InformedKindness bad friend]] Mark actually is.

* AuthorTract: Cast members have alleged that Lisa represents what Wiseau thinks of women, while Lisa's actress in particular believes she represents how the entire world has mistreated Wiseau. In ''The Disaster Artist,'' Sestero says she represents one, real woman Wiseau was involved in a relationship with who "betrayed him many times."

** Denny yells "[[YoureNotMyFather You're not my fucking YoureNotMyFather mother!]]" at Claudette, provoking her to start yanking his shirt collar.

** Denny yells "[[YoureNotMyFather You're not my]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[YoureNotMyFather mother!]]" at Claudette, provoking her to start yanking his shirt collar.

* PrecisionFStrike: After Denny gets confronted by Lisa and her mother after his skirmish with Chris-R, Lisa's mom pesters Denny to the point where he says, "You're not my ''fucking'' mother!", provoking her to start [[AngryCollarGrab yanking his shirt collar]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Mostly {{averted|Trope}}. The only characters who change during the film are Denny, who comes to terms with his feelings for Lisa via a "heartfelt" conversation with Johnny, and Lisa herself, who becomes increasingly unpleasant as time goes on, eventually flaunting her affair and making up a pregnancy to needle Johnny. Mark shaves his beard at one point, and the same amount of attention is paid to this as many an ImportantHaircut ... but it doesn't mean anything. AT. ''ALL.''

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Johnny kills himself. However, [[SubervertedTrope Marks rejects Lisa for good.]]]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Chris-R]] holds Denny at gunpoint after he finds out Denny doesn't have the drug money he wants. [[PapaWolf Thank god Johnny and Mark were there to save Denny!]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Johnny discovers Lisa's affair, ransacks his own apartment, and kills himself. The film ends with Lisa, Mark, and Denny variously screaming at each other and crying.]] Additionally, [[spoiler:we can assume that both Denny and Lisa are likely doomed, because Johnny was paying their bills. Really the only bright spot in the ending is that Lisa gets her comeuppance and, according to Wiseau later on, Claudette overcomes her cancer.]]

* FakePregnancy: Lisa tells Johnny she's pregnant and later in the same scene, confesses she made it up "to make things interesting". Like many other things, the subplot is never mentioned again.

-->'''Johnny to [[spoiler:Mark]]:''' Don't touch me, mothafawker. Get out!
** And then after [[spoiler:Lisa]] is gone: "Get out. Get out! ''GET OUT OFF MY LIIIIIFE!''"

* KudzuPlot: Every plot thread except for the main one gets brought up in one scene, then forgotten by the rest. See AbortedArc above for more details. Even the main plot [[ShootTheShaggyDog just kinda ends]] with no real sense of resolution.

* YoureNotMyFather: "You're Not My Fucking Mother!" Says Denny to Claudette after the incident with Chris-R.

* CharacterDevelopment: Mostly {{averted|Trope}}. The only characters who change during the film are Denny, who comes to terms with his feelings for Lisa via a "heartfelt" conversation with Johnny, and Lisa herself, who becomes increasingly unpleasant as time goes on, eventually flaunting her affair and making up a pregnancy to needle Johnny. Mark shaves his beard at one point, and the same amount of attention is paid to this as many an ImportantHaircut ... but it doesn't mean ''anything. AT. ALL.''

*** The Flash game exaggerates this. Every store clerk in the game tells Johnny that he's their favorite customer. And when you walk into the coffee shop, there's a giant photo of Johnny with the caption "Customer of the Month". Dialogue from Johnny indicates that this isn't the first time.

* SpinOff: Wiseau plans on creating a novelization of ''The Room''. There's already a Flash game tribute (see below).

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The actor playing Peter the psychiatrist had to leave production for another gig, and his scenes weren't done by the deadline (Wiseau had prioritized the "football in tuxes" scene over the scenes at the birthday party), so Wiseau went and cast a new actor to play Peter, then changed the name of the character to Steven, then ditched the suit-and-glasses look for the character so that Steven becomes a random friend who shows up for the remaining 19 minutes with no introduction and delivers an impassioned, if hammy, performance as though he's already deeply invested in what's going on. It probably would have made more sense to give those lines to an already-established character, such as Mike. The Flash game mocks this by having Peter get run over on the way to the party by Chris-R, having just carjacked Johnny.

* BrokenAesop: Wiseau claims the message of the film is "If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live". It doesn't work out given his chracter Johnny says the line in the context of Denny confessing his love for Lisa, Johnny's fiancee. Not helping that Lisa's affair with Mark is what [[spoiler:drives Johnny to kill himself]].

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Johnny kills himself.]]

* [[YoureNotMyFather You're Not My Fucking Mother!]]: Says Denny to Claudette after the incident with Chris-R.

** According to ''Literature/TheDisasterArtist'', Mark was named for the [[Creator/MattDamon lead actor]] from ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'': "[[CriticalResearchFailure Mark Damon]]."[[invoked]]

It was made on a budget of $6 million,[[note]]For reference, that's equal to the budget for ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''[[/note]] yet the only major locales where most of the movie takes place are the eponymous room, a different room and [[SittingOnTheRoof a rooftop]], punctuated with StockFootage {{establishing shot}}s of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to spice things up, a car, a park, two alleyways, a café and a 19-second scene in a flower shop. A lion's share of the budget went into the production itself, as Wiseau decided to shoot the film in both 35mm film and digital side-by-side. He also purchased the cameras, instead of renting them as film productions usually do.[[note]]No digital HD footage made it in the final cut.[[/note]]

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Johnny left Chris-R's gun lying in a unlocked box on the floor.

* BusmansHoliday: Peter the psychologist. He is always playing psychologist to his friends (though the dialog jumps from actually being their psychologist, to just a friend being roped into giving them advice).

** Johnny and Mark are best friends ... we're told this around five times. In this case it's rather {{inverted|Trope}}, as it's unlikely anyone would deduce this merely by watching considering what a hilariously [[InformedKindness bad friend]] Mark actually is.

* AudienceParticipation: At ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''-style screenings, audiences are actively encouraged to vocally express their abject revulsion, even by Wiseau himself. This includes:

It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on Creator/AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay 2009. Wiseau was also the focus of a ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A Podcast/RiffTrax commentary for the film was released the same year, and WebVideo/RedLetterMedia followed with its own commentary track. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/ObscurusLupa also reviewed it in 2010, and were immediately forced by Wiseau Films to take the reviews down due to alleged copyright infringement.[[note]]However, after both reviewers argued that their videos were covered by the “parody and criticism” precedent of fair use doctrine, the reviews were reinstated soon after.[[/note]] There is also [[VideoGame/TheRoomTheGame a Flash game tribute]] to the film [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307 here]], and a Website/{{Kickstarter}}-funded May 2015 live show as well.

Two books have been written about the film. In 2013, Greg Sestero in cooperation with Tom Bissell wrote ''[[Literature/TheDisasterArtist The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]'', a book detailing not only the making of the film but also his long and troubled friendship with Wiseau. Said book has been adapted into a film, ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'', directed by and starring Creator/JamesFranco as Wiseau, with his younger brother Creator/DaveFranco as Sestero. Philip Haldiman, who played Denny, wrote a comic book called ''[[http://vimeo.com/59931490 My Big Break,]]'' the first of which covers his audition.

It was exposed to a national audience for the first time on Creator/AdultSwim on AprilFoolsDay 2009. Wiseau was also the focus of a ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' episode which aired immediately after the 2009 showing, causing Adult Swim fans to refer to it as ''[[FanNickname The Tim and Eric Movie]]''. A Podcast/RiffTrax commentary for the film was released the same year, and WebVideo/RedLetterMedia followed with its own commentary track. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/ObscurusLupa also reviewed it in 2010, and were immediately forced by Wiseau Films to take the reviews down due to alleged copyright infringement.[[note]]However, after both reviewers argued that their videos were covered by the “parody and criticism” precedent of fair use doctrine, the reviews were reinstated soon after.[[/note]] There is also [[VideoGame/TheRoomTheGame a Flash game tribute]] to the film [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307 here,]] and a Website/{{Kickstarter}} funded a May 2015 live show as well.

** "[She is/You are] my future wife." Why he never uses "fiancée" is never explained in universe.[[note]]According to ''The Disaster Artist'', Wiseau was insistent that there only be English in the film, which apparently excluded even French loanwords like "fiancée."[[/note]]

** "[She is/You are] my future wife." Why he never uses "fiancée" and "fiancé" is never explained in universe.[[note]]According to ''The Disaster Artist'', Wiseau was insistent that there only be English in the film, which apparently excluded even French loanwords like "fiancée."[[/note]]

"You are ''tearing me apart'' Lisa!"\\

"I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullshit, I didn't hit her, I did naaht. Oh hai Mark."\\
"You are tearing me apart Lisa!"\\

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Unintentionally {{subverted|Trope}}. It's obviously what Tommy was going for with Johnny, but given Wiseau's appearance as stated just above, it falls on its face. Lisa, meanwhile, shows her true colors as the story progresses by cheating on him with Mark.

* CassandraTruth: A rather bizarre version. After Mark tells Johnny a story about a woman he knew who was viciously beaten by a boyfriend who found out she was cheating, Johnny chuckles and says "What a story!", as if he thinks Mark is lying.

* BrokenAesop: Wiseau claims the message of the film is "If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live". It doesn't work out given his chracter Johnny says the line in the context of Denny confessing his love for Lisa, Johnny fiance. Not helping that Lisa's affair with Mark is what [[spoiler:drives Johnny to kill himself]].

* BattleStrip: Johnny flings off his blazer before [[WimpFight launching himself at Mark]] after finding out the truth.

** "[She is/You are] my future wife." Why he never uses "fiancée" and "fiancé" is never explained in universe.[[note]]According to ''The Disaster Artist'', Wiseau was insistent that there only be English in the film, which apparently excluded even French loanwords like 'fiancée.'[[/note]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Mostly {{averted|Trope}}. The only characters who change during the film are Denny, who comes to terms with his feelings for Lisa via a 'heartfelt' conversation with Johnny, and Lisa herself, who becomes increasingly unpleasant as time goes on, eventually flaunting her affair and making up a pregnancy to needle Johnny. Mark shaves his beard at one point, and the same amount of attention is paid to this as many an ImportantHaircut ... but it doesn't mean anything. AT. ALL.

** [[InformedAttractiveness We are constantly told Lisa is beautiful, multiple times.]] One character's role is simply to say that Lisa looks "hot".
** Johnny gets this, in spades. Everyone except Chris-R seems to praise him to the point that very few scenes go by without him being praised.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Johnny manages to take so long to work out Mark and Lisa are having an affair that even when he ''walks in on them slow dancing and stroking each other'' he still doesn't get it straight away.

** Tommy's dramatic outburst during his meltdown: Why, Lisa? Why? Why?