What is /lit/'s opinion of James Franco as an author?
>>7374148
So little would be lost if he died.
>>7374157
/thread
>>7374148
stop
>>7374148
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NlydTf5bJdo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpTmcq7nBg
that's all
>>7374148
>be a polymath
>act in a shitty Spiderman movie
ayyy
>>7374410
spiderman rules you faggot
>>7374410
How the fuck is this retard a polymath
>>7374651
This
>>7374410
Do you literally think james franco is a polymath? Is your view of the world so small?
isnt that llewyn davis
Here's his latest poem
"I was Born into a World"
I was born into a world
Before recycling was a thing,
Before oil wars,
When the biggest world
Threat was nuclear.
The only extinct thing
Was the Dodo,
We consumed and junked.
Then we were told about
Droughts, and disappearing
Rainforests.
About melting ice caps,
And we fought Iraq
For a second time,
Like father like son,
We needed our oil
Because we didn’t want
Those electric cars.
At one time there were
Huge monsters that
Walked where we walk,
Nature swallowed them easy.
Or maybe you believe
It all started with Adam and Eve,
But they too were kicked
From the garden
As are we,
With our poison beaches
Run down towns
And our atmosphere
That kills.
I write a poem
And preach to the converted.
We send out loud messages
To ourselves,
That our world is dying:
1984, Blade Runner,
Armageddon, The Road.
I’ve yet to read a book,
Or watch a film about a future
I’d like to live in.
Fortunately for me,
I’ll die before the earth,
But I’d like a place for my
Computer chip self
To click and beep
In bright, clean happiness.
>>7375091
Where's this from senpai?
>>7375108
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/nov/20/our-melting-shifting-liquid-world-celebrities-read-poems-on-climate-change
One of my facebook friends shared it about an hour ago, kinda spooky this thread showed up
>>7375091
That sounds like shit.
https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/boy-me-girl-me-james-franco-in-conversation-with-his-feminine-side
did you know he took 45 hours simultaneously at ucla and usc while teaching an acting class at nyu? all he needed was a team of note takers to attend class for him and the clout with professors to take his exams online. he has a busy seth rogen movie shooting schedule of course
he is truly a genius polymath autodidact
he is going to bring difficult literature like cormac mccarthy and pynchon to the silver screen but in a real way. he is capable of making the transition
>>7375091
holy SHIT this guy really has it figured out
and to think we could get such deep insight from a born rich hollywood type. you would never guess, huh? you might assume he would be a pompous pseudo intellectual assface but that just isn't the case at all
i would love to smoke a big fat j with franco while looking at the stars and discussing philosophy
>>7374148
He's not a good writer. He's a competent actor who got insecure about his intellect one night when he had a moment of clarity and realized how fucked up and stupid all the other actors are. He then tried to do something about it but was too wrapped up in narcissism, the low standards of his fans and the praises of sycophants to grow intellectually.
>>7375170
This. Go to your local bookstore and open a copy of "Palo Alto" - it doesn't matter what page, all of it stinks like garbage- read a couple of lines and you will see what he's made of. It's like laying on the ground and having two teenagers kick your temples while a Rottweiler chews off your genitals. If you can get through a page you will truly realize love doesn't exist and life is a meaningless hell.
>>7375165
>literature like cormac mccarthy and pynchon to the silver screen
>>7375331
>mfw when I read the whole thing amd kinda liked the characters
over-privileged white jew
gets into yale and gets to butcher some faulkner on screen as if anything would be gained by a movie adaptation of flawless prose works
dumb anglo mentality of trying to appeal to people who dont read
franco posts here btw
>>7375165
some black professor got fired for giving james franco a bad grade
can you say, 'white privilege'
>>7375722
Even if your retarded outburst is true, i think you mean, that is - if you were able to think - /celebrity/ "privilege".
Me, myself i have /"brain"/ privilege. Let's write a mountain on this thing and make retards parrot this important and neglected societal privilege.
>>7375879
implying black celebrities are equally privileged as white celebrities
>>7375719
>Franco posts here
That is just not true
>>7374148
He looks forever half asleep. Did he write anything? How is it? I'm not gonna read it.
>>7374157
That's not very nice, now is it?
Lmao, give me a break you jelly niggers. Everyone on lit hates someone who tries. He could easily be sitting on his ass all day due to his movie money but he does stuff.
All you guys complaining that he can send his first drafts to the new Yorker etc and can get published, or that he can bully professors: This should be the wake up call that the academia media publishing industry is bs but you guys are just mad that you're not the beneficiary. You're too intellectually deluded to admit these industries are bs because you're waiting for your piece of the pie
>>7375719
>tfw Franco wrote this
>>7375492
http://www.vice.com/read/james-francos-blood-meridian-test-656
when i read blood meridian, all i was thinking the whole time was, "shaky cam!"
franco simply nailed it
>>7376062
Well put. I fucking hate academia.
>>7375091
Yuck.
>>7376127
I will try to forget having seen any of that...
I kept saying, aloud, No..... No...... No...... No.....
>>7376127
>shaky cam
?
>>7375091
I... kinda like it? The idea is simple enough for its diction. However, there really should be more literary device... I hate to be that cutthroat about it, but it would be a lot better with more complexity.
>>7376316
think found footage (blair witch, cloverfield) or the d-day scene in saving private ryan
used to give footage a gritty, realistic feeling
the extensive landscape descriptions in blood meridian are anything but
>>7376231
Same... academia is a business, as much as it likes to deny/appear it isn't. It runs on prestige... a recipe for disaster. Some of the smartest people today don't do well in most universities because unis really don't give a shit about true, individualized education. They just want a student body who will do the work well, contribute good research, and go out to be successful, therefore the uni benefits from having an "outstanding" alumni. All of which lead to more government endowments and more income for the faculty. Not to even fucking mention the money they spend on sports, something directly unrelated to academics. It's a load of shit.
>>7376348
I believe a healthy body will assist in forming a healthy mind, but sports in academia is just overblown. Tuition could be decreased so much if they provided faculties for HEALTH, not for some fancy fucking sports team with a fancy fucking stadium.
>>7375091
thats dope as fuck
>>7376337
actually, scratch that. I read it over again. I really like it. his ideas are complex, they're just presented in a tone and format that makes it sound simple. This poem is actually really good. He 'preaches to the converted'... that's fucking powerful imo. Only environmentalists are listening to other environmentalists these days. i love this piece.
>>7375091
dilettante as fuck unfortunately
reads like the poetry of a clever 17 year old
>>7375091
Hmm yea, too direct for me.
>>7375091
This is like that friend that thinks he can write poetry but can't be bothered to pick up a book of poetry or actually learn what poetry is.
>>7376343
I could see it in the tavern scenes and the Comanche assault, and only then.
>>7375165
he made already child of god into a really shit movie
love to see his interpretation of pynchon
I thought Actors Anonymous was kind of funny.
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>>7375091
>write prose
>press enter key after 4-5 words
POETRY
>>7374148
His body of work is intriguing
>>7376663
Jesus
>>7375722
>white privilege
>not Hollywood royalty privilege
>>7376663
That is Tyler Knott Gregson-tier bad
>>7378091
>not frack
When My Father Died
by JAMES FRANCO
I was about to shoot the last scene of the night:
A scene in the Dark Woods,
Opposite a screaming tree
With a mouth and eyes like a jack-o’-lantern.
I was in the chair getting makeup checks,
When my manager called;
My mother was following my father’s ambulance,
She had been writing in the back of the house
And she had heard him gasp
In my old room,
His new office,
And that was about all.
Me, a buffoon in cake-thick makeup,
The Wonderful Wizard,
With a set full of people ready for the next shot.
I walked the long halls of the long stage,
And down the Yellow Brick Road,
Where the director, Sam, was waiting.
It was hard to grasp his words,
Like scooping gold fish from a tank
With a broken net
At the kindergarten fair.
Plenty of refrains in my head,
Should I be working?
Should I be racing to the airport?
And they played and played.
I went through the motions of the scene.
We wrapped,
And I got in the car, my driver
Drove me out of the lot
And turned right toward Woodward.
A block away from the studio,
My manager called again.
It was over.
The hanging traffic lights did their work:
Yellow to red as I listened to the cell phone—
My father’s spirit was released,
As a green light releases an SUV.
>>7375879
brain privilege will never become a thing. People would never call attention to this inherit, unfair advantage if the circumstance ever arose, no one can/will admit to themselves being less intelligent that anyone else
>>7378091
fyadik
>>7378222
I think it was kind of decent until 'with a broken net'
>>7375168
meanwhile he takes this
>>7378264
Wrong franco senpai
He's a pedophile.
>>7378290
[citation needed]
>>7374651
Sure, but have you actually watched the films with Toby McGuire? Fucking terrible movies. Like almost Parody-of-Themselves type movies.
>>7375719
>franco posts here btw
want like 2 or 3 things more than this, max.
>>7375091
4/10
>>7374400
Oh wow, end of high school nostalgia. It's even Rage.
James Franco is a normal guy surrounded by midgets, so he thinks he's tall.
>>7376663
This is rap right? not a poem.
He's shite
franco seems like a guy who wants you to really believe he is some sort of Renaissance man but the whole image feels shallow and false to anyone who actually pays attention .
Anyways i enjoy shias shallow art projects more
>>7376062
lol, this post is so American
>you only hate rich people because you're not one of them!
>if you got the chance to be rich, you would take it right away!
>>7379563
Is this like that thing Marina Abromovic did but with a bag on his head?
calls himself a linguistic determinist
>>7378434
My 13 year old self used to masturbate vigorously to that scene with Kirsten Dunst with her nipples in the rain.
I feel like Kirsten doesn't get appreciated enough. She's also the reason I watched that shitty Wimbledon film about half a dozen times.
