His research and
eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.
And then, of course, there's the
film's
eventual premiere, when Wiseau first endures the feeling of having audiences laugh at his
work, for which he had bared his soul and burned several million dollars of a fortune whose origins are anybody's guess (although «such nosy person» Sestero's best guess in the book, involving a shady business called Street Fashions USA, isn't even mentioned in the
film).