The Disaster Artist Character Analysis

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Nguyen Nguyen
Aaron Styza
Writing 39B
2 February 2018

RA Essay: Tommy’s Character as A Result of Tone Shift A dynamic character is a dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change. This change can be a change in the character’s personality or attitude. From the beginning to the end of the memoir The Disaster Artist, the character Tommy Wiseau changes significantly as more information about him is revealed. Without reading closely, it is easy for audiences to misunderstand that Tommy is the dynamic character. In fact, Tommy’s inner change is observed and described by Greg Sestero during the time Greg spends with Tommy, which means Tommy’s shift in character is shaped by Greg’s shift in his opinion about Tommy. Therefore, the true …show more content…

Greg also looks down on Tommy and does not take Tommy seriously. When Greg is feeling defeated after he fails to get a role in the movie Wildflowers, Greg decides to partner with Tommy in their acting class project, not because Greg wants to befriend Tommy, but because Greg wants to use Tommy as a mean of entertainment. This is shown when Greg says, “Maybe he’d cheer me up. Maybe I’d learn some of his fearlessness. What made him so confident? I was desperately curious to discover that. It wasn’t his acting, obviously, which was extraordinarily bad” (Sestero and Bissell). Here, Greg uses the playful tone to express his opinion that partnering with Tommy is merely a way for Greg to feel better after failing. This playful tone, combining with the phrase “Maybe he’d cheer me up” by Greg, gives the audience a sense of ingenuity in Greg’s decision to collaborate with Tommy, therefore making Tommy Greg’s tool for amusement in the eyes of the audience. Not only that, Greg also includes an arrogant tone in the quote to show that he considers Tommy as inferior in terms of acting skills. The fact that Greg constantly uses the word “maybe” shows that Greg has low expectation on how much he can gain from partnering with Tommy, and this indicates Greg’s sense of pride and superiority about his skill level. Using this arrogant attitude, along with Greg pitilessly calling Tommy’s acting as “extraordinarily bad,” Greg makes …show more content…

Greg initially thinks of Tommy as a ridiculous, bizarre, and even scary person, but Greg soon changes his thinking after his discussion with Tommy about Tommy’s planet and Greg comments, “I wanted to laugh but I couldn’t. In fact, I had goosebumps . . . for that moment I believed him [Tommy]. I believed he [Tommy] could have his own planet” (Sestero and Bissel). As the previous paragraph shows, Greg believes the best thing he can possibly learn while partnering with Tommy is Tommy’s confident. But, when Greg hears Tommy describing Tommy’s planet, Greg recognizes that what Tommy possesses is far more than confident. By using the image of “goose bumps,” the common reaction of human’s body to intense emotions, Greg makes his awestruck tone becomes more relatable by the audiences, thus further emphasizes the amazement and reverence of Greg in response to Tommy’s big dream. This tone marks the shift of Greg’s attitude towards Tommy. Originally criticizing and ridiculing Tommy for his appearance and behaviors, Greg now respects and recognizes Tommy's for his unique

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