The Pursuit of False Americanization to Alienation
Entirely adopting a country of your own in search of the better life seems risky, but embracing a movie’s depiction on a country in open arms solely through seeing it from a movie is idiotic. In Greg Sestero’s The Disaster Artist, the character Tommy has completely missed the mark in America because of his false stereotyping of Americans and the nation itself, leading to hate, conflict and agony for the casting crew. Through mannerisms, expectations, and stereotypes, Tommy Wiseau’s idea of America is derived from surface-level Hollywood stereotypes, materialistic, shallow and misogynistic. From imdb’s lists, there were hundreds of movies whose main characters or ideas fit into these characteristics. …show more content…
His first and seemingly only impressions of this “best” country seem to be from American movies and magazines brought into somewhere far away, and he has not changed it since. This foreign American was not able to find at all what America and its inhabitants truly idealizes and symbolize, and Sestero creates Tommy as a representative of all these foreigners. It creates all this drama, trouble and belittling to all these characters Sestero sets up them to be truly “good-hearted” people. Not only are these inaccurate depictions of these Americans, it creates conflict with them as well. Sestero wants these depictions gone and believes America is receiving a bad rap. Sestero creates Tommy’s character to be a representation of an odd and perfect example of the American dream. Traveling from afar in pursuit of a dream, and desperately trying to fit in with this foreign country he seems to love so much. Sestero ends the book of a young Tommy who “peered through a movie theatre’s cracked door in Eastern Europe,” to “a man whose dream is literally about to come true.” (Sestero 181). For Sestero, it does matter how far you come from or how much ridicule is obtained from others. But he emphasizes toward the end of Tommy’s dedication to the path despite the drawbacks and the achievement of his own dream. That person is one in many of other foreigners, who achieved this ultimate goal here in America, and kept swimming to the goal regardless how wrong their form
Entirely adopting a country of your own in search of the better life seems risky, but embracing a movie’s depiction on a country in open arms solely through seeing it from a movie is idiotic. In Greg Sestero’s The Disaster Artist, the character Tommy has completely missed the mark in America because of his false stereotyping of Americans and the nation itself, leading to hate, conflict and agony for the casting crew. Through mannerisms, expectations, and stereotypes, Tommy Wiseau’s idea of America is derived from surface-level Hollywood stereotypes, materialistic, shallow and misogynistic. From imdb’s lists, there were hundreds of movies whose main characters or ideas fit into these characteristics. …show more content…
His first and seemingly only impressions of this “best” country seem to be from American movies and magazines brought into somewhere far away, and he has not changed it since. This foreign American was not able to find at all what America and its inhabitants truly idealizes and symbolize, and Sestero creates Tommy as a representative of all these foreigners. It creates all this drama, trouble and belittling to all these characters Sestero sets up them to be truly “good-hearted” people. Not only are these inaccurate depictions of these Americans, it creates conflict with them as well. Sestero wants these depictions gone and believes America is receiving a bad rap. Sestero creates Tommy’s character to be a representation of an odd and perfect example of the American dream. Traveling from afar in pursuit of a dream, and desperately trying to fit in with this foreign country he seems to love so much. Sestero ends the book of a young Tommy who “peered through a movie theatre’s cracked door in Eastern Europe,” to “a man whose dream is literally about to come true.” (Sestero 181). For Sestero, it does matter how far you come from or how much ridicule is obtained from others. But he emphasizes toward the end of Tommy’s dedication to the path despite the drawbacks and the achievement of his own dream. That person is one in many of other foreigners, who achieved this ultimate goal here in America, and kept swimming to the goal regardless how wrong their form