Tommy Wiseau's Accent

[Admiral Yi]

Squeelus, do you remember what I told you way back when you asked about people that had attended the University of Chicago?

[Razgovory]

Not really.  He's (inexplicably) a multimillionaire of bizarre origin and seemingly abnormal intellect who made the great cult movie of the 2000s.  He's fascinating.

I've met lots of people with abnormal intellect and they aren't interesting.  His one film is "cult", but only because it's awful.

[Queequeg]

Yeah, but it's uniquely, totally awful, to the extent that it's far more interesting than the vast majority of good and more than a few great movies.

[Savonarola]

Not really.  He's (inexplicably) a multimillionaire of bizarre origin and seemingly abnormal intellect who made the great cult movie of the 2000s.  He's fascinating.

I've met lots of people with abnormal intellect and they aren't interesting.  His one film is "cult", but only because it's awful.

I've seen many (many, many) awful films that aren't interesting, while "The Room" is engrossing.  What is it that separates Tommy Wiseau from, say Jean Rollins or Uwe Boll?

[Razgovory]

The walls of an asylum?

[Razgovory]

Sorry Spellus, I'm with you on many of your flights of fancy, but I reserve my stalking for either Melody or Yi.

[Syt]

I say Slovak or Polish because he seems quite sincerely Catholic, and I don't think he's a Croat or Slovene (he makes a lot of references to invading Soviet troops, the Bosnian who did the soundtrack would recognize it) or a Hungarian (that would have been recognized by a Hungarian on set).

I've dealt with quite a few Poles and Slovaks in my time, and they didn't have an accent like Wiseau. Maybe semi-French/Polish, but it'd be a stretch.

[Queequeg]

I think the idea is that it's somehow weirdly Alsatian.  What would your guess be, Syt?

[Razgovory]

Maybe he just talks that way for attention.

[katmai]

Maybe he just talks that way for attention.

He certainly has caught Spellus's.

[Syt]

I think the idea is that it's somehow weirdly Alsatian.  What would your guess be, Syt?

No idea, nor do I care much, truth be told.

[Queequeg]

Man, the guy's just fucking bizarre, and I find it weird that no one has cracked this stuff.  Greg Sostero saw a driver's licence of him with the birth date as sometime in 1969, but there's a photo of him as a young adult in a clearly late 70s suit, and elements of his childhood story seem to indicate that he remembered the 60s pretty well.  It seems likely that he either had a fake driver's licence (if so, wtf why?) or somehow his birthday recorded in official American government records is completely wrong.  I've also been looking at some Linguistics boards to try and figure it out-no response.  I'm seriously considering emailing a few Linguistics professors. 

[katmai]

Since Garbo is sunning himself in Palm Springs...

[garbon]

Since Garbo is sunning himself in Palm Springs...

Truf!

[jimmy olsen]

Not really.  He's (inexplicably) a multimillionaire of bizarre origin and seemingly abnormal intellect who made the great cult movie of the 2000s.  He's fascinating.

I've met lots of people with abnormal intellect and they aren't interesting.  His one film is "cult", but only because it's awful.

I've seen many (many, many) awful films that aren't interesting, while "The Room" is engrossing.  What is it that separates Tommy Wiseau from, say Jean Rollins or Uwe Boll?

What's so special about it?