Even a retarded can succeed on capitalism the book

A retard who made his money by smuggling counterfeit goods into America illegally

I imagined he inherited. He did spend millions on his movie, right

He clearly must be doing something smart in his life if he can afford to finance a film with his own money.
A shitty film, with really not a very big budget, but 5 million dollars out of his own pocket doesn't come from nowhere, he has to get that money from somewhere.
Nobody knows where, or how, maybe he's a stockbroker in secret, or a runs a successful realtor firm, but his absolutely alien mannerisms and strange understanding and ideas about film doesn't mean he can't be good at something else.

Who fucking knows. Some people speculate he's actually D.B Cooper, because of how he's mysterious, looks older than he says he is, and talks fucking weird.

I haven't read it, only some excerpts here and there, and while there's certainly things that make you laugh at Tommy, you can tell Sestero really does think of him as a friend, something he's repeatedly stated is that when cameras aren't rolling, he comes off as much more natural and charming, that he just has this fix idea that he's supposed to act like he does when on camera.

Can't be that retarded if he never got caught and then got a lot of eyes on him from around the world, putting him in the spotlight. Like if you were a smuggler, you don't want to be this extremely unusual person who draws a lot of attention to himself. If he's smuggling under those conditions and getting by unscathed, he's doing something very right.

I just don't think he really understands people all that well, like he's probably really autistic or something.

It's possible, but from what digging someone did, they found some evidence he grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and escaped to the west in his youth. Which isn't to say that you can't hide money from socialists, and then bring it out again when it inevitably falls apart, but that brings the question of how do you store that value, currency is fleeting, especially when socialists ruin it, so you'd need some kind of asset that retains it's value for long times and which you could actually sell and make your investment back/profit on, and you'd need to hide it from the organized crime that breeds in these environments.
Unless you ARE the organized crime, that is.

I guess another option is he had wealthy family elsewhere, outside of the Soviet Union.

>be 18
>inherit 50 million dollars
>spend 1 million dollars to manage 40 million
>spend 9 million dollars in 18 years living like a boss
>buy bitcoin
>buy gold bars
>buy real estate
>be retarded the entire time

>Some people speculate he's actually D.B Cooper

I want this to be true

This book exceeded my expectations. Come for the "Oh hai Mark," stay for the loneliness and alienation.

It really is a great book that will make you see The Room very differently. The Room now feels like a tragic arthouse film to me more than anything else

It was very funny

Yes, Tommy really is the disaster artist. Dude was so lonely that projected an all American character but the execution of everything showed that he was a really lonely person, and a lot of the times, pathetic (him walking around naked and doing the sex scenes over and over was unsettling).

I think it's hinted at in the book. Tommy makes a lot of references to "Gigolo stuff", and even tells gregg that "The Gigolo business don't work like you think, you know?" as if he had personal experience with it.

He's also constantly talking to some elderly lady on the phone, and gregg asks if she's his girlfriend, by the flirty way he talks to her, which tommy doesn't really answer but hints that it's probably so.

So...I think it's just as simple as Tommy just banging a rich old lady and taking all her money. He puts up that idiotic business and other things to make it look like he's a business man or something, but he's just plowing some old bag and making mad bills off it. Really seems like the simplest, most plausible answer to me.

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It's a unexpectedly emotional book. It's funny as hell, yeah, but it also goes deep into both Tommy and Gregg's psyches. They are actually both lonely, insecure, alienated people, but gregg is more accepted because of his good looks, but he's also just as untalented and generally weird as Tommy. This causes a bizarre unspoken rift between the two, despite the fact the they kind of seem made to be best buds.

The movie is sort a bizarre child of these two weirdos, it's just an outgrowth, maybe cancerous, expression of Tommy's view of his and Gregg's relationship. Filled with paranoia, insecurity, tons of complete fucking misconceptions due to both being such autistic dickheads, and ultimately loneliness and alienation. Gregg is sort of the one who wrote the story in a very metaphysical way by just insisting on having a relationship with Tommy, and tommy is the incoherent weirdo who tried to translate this relationship into a movie. It's just fascinating how these two lonely people interacted, and having only each other, created this wonderfully bizarre thing.