Guess the context
I went to see THE ROOM tonight as it was playing as a midnight movie... I have seen it a few times before as I r megageeK... I've been thinking a lot about promoting your own film and how its really difficult to guess how the audience will receive it.... what will get they attention? What will they laugh at? What will creep them out?
As I was watching the room again...I noticed that this film is like an out of context nightmare for the director... people focus on these random things that are weird or wtf inducing like Lisa's neck in some boring dialog scene...or the football in every "friends hanging out" scene 0_o Or during the last shot of the film which was supposed to be sad or moving or something the crowd was chanting "suck his dick!" cause the way the shot was framed the peoples heads were moving over the dead guys crotch 0_O I don't think that's what he wanted....
I mean the d00d who made the room still WON in the end because it was so bad and out of context it made it good... its when you get caught in between where you lose and no one cares....
So I think to properly promote your film you have to like guess the context...
If you guess right it will make sense to people and perhaps they will be interested and tell someone else about it... if you guess wrong it won't make sense and they'll just move along to something else... unless its SO WRONG like THE ROOM or BIRDEMIC it makes it funny...
So I have to try to guess right with the context when promoting HSM... or promote it the total WRONG way on purpose....Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.