{"id":2083,"date":"2015-12-09T11:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:45:09","slug":"kevin-if-i-could-do-it-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/12\/09\/kevin-if-i-could-do-it-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin: If I Could Do It All Over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrap up my final week at BU and look back at my time, I only have 1 regret. It\u2019s hard for me to admit, and I\u2019m honestly quite ashamed, but it\u2019s time I said it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I never went to a screening of <em>The Room<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Coolidge Corner Theater has <span><span>midnight<\/span><\/span> screenings a couple times throughout the semester, and rumor has it Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sistero have made surprise appearances in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I\u2019m graduating, I have only 1 goal: to get a cameo as Mike in James Franco\u2019s <em>Disaster Artist<\/em>, the movie about the movie about nothing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/zac-efron-joining-seth-rogen-846499\">Rumor has it<\/a> Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Kate Upton, Josh Hutcherson, and Zac Efron have all signed on, and I think I\u2019d fit right into that cast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already seen the room, here\u2019s all you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span>Tommy Wiseau claims to have financed the film by importing and selling leather jackets from Korea. He refuses to further elaborate on this.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span>Shot simultaneously on 35 mm film and high-definition video. Tommy Wiseau was confused about the differences between the formats, so he used both cameras on the same mount. He also purchased the cameras, instead of renting them as film productions usually do.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span>Mark (Greg Sestero) is named after Matt Damon. According to Sestero, Tommy Wiseau misheard the actor&#8217;s name despite his obsession with the actor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Entire scenes were out of focus because nobody bothered to check the lens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(these are all entirely real, from IMDB.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To check out the Coolidge\u2019s schedule of screenings, you can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolidge.org\/films\/room-0\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t make my mistake and graduate without experiencing <em>The Room<\/em> gloriously projected onto the large screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrap up my final week at BU and look back at my time, I only have 1 regret. It\u2019s hard for me to admit, and I\u2019m honestly quite ashamed, but it\u2019s time I said it\u2026 I never went to a screening of The Room. Coolidge Corner Theater has midnight screenings a couple times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/12\/09\/kevin-if-i-could-do-it-all-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin: If I Could Do It All Over&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}