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Anonymous Fri Sep 25 16:54:27 2015 No.7159041 [Reply] [Original]

How do you feel about the literary works of James "plz respond" Franco?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 25 16:55:06 2015 No.7159045 I laugh at the term "linguistic determinism" every time

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 25 16:57:38 2015 No.7159061 I kind of feel a connection to him we are both fans of some great literature but are too dumb to write our own

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 25 17:17:32 2015 No.7159146 I want to like him, but damn it's hard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 25 20:20:19 2015 No.7159860 >>7159061 he actually has put some stuff out there, but you're right that he's too dumb to write

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 03:50:13 2015 No.7161043 >>7159041 is there even a reason why everyone hates this guy? sorry that he has the nerve to try to make something. nobody knows something is going to be shit until it's finished

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 04:05:19 2015 No.7161064 >>7161043 He got an English professor fired for marking him low

Anonymous Sat Sep 26 04:15:42 2015 No.7161082

>>7161043

He's using his fame to bully or tempt a bunch of institutions into giving him things he doesn't deserve. He went to multiple colleges simultaneously, taking more than the maximum units, while working on movies: it is impossible for him to do work of a passing quality under those conditions.

He's gotten short fiction and poetry published that wouldn't have even gotten into most print journals if he weren't famous enough to have Frank Bidart hang out with him to try and seem cooler and more relevant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 04:50:56 2015 No.7161123 >>7161082 that's all part of his project haha

Anonymous Sat Sep 26 05:04:58 2015 No.7161136

>>7161043
Freaks and Geeks is amazing, and some of his films and his roles in them are pretty great—though never in the 'artistic' way he ever so desperately wants to achieve. Everything else, however, is painfully mediocre at best and then there's his abuse of status as noted here: >>7161082

What's funny is I truly wish he was as talented he no doubt believes himself to be: James Franco, renowned and innovative intellectual and highly talented and diverse filmmaker/actor and writer. All because I love Freaks and Geeks so much (I want all of the alumni to have success). Shame.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 05:06:54 2015 No.7161140 He taught a screenwriting class I took at UCLA It was interesting, he seems like a guy with good ideas but is trying to do so much at once that none of them end of coming rightly to fruition

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 05:24:55 2015 No.7161165 File: 74 KB, 687x500, 1408692175236.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Unrivaled genius.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 05:28:43 2015 No.7161172 File: 25 KB, 420x673, LOA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7159041 Only a matter of time...

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 05:37:53 2015 No.7161180 >>7161165 I wrote a paper with those exact thoughts in philosophy. When I was a sophomore in High School.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 06:03:10 2015 No.7161206 >>7159041 i would let him destroy me

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 06:05:16 2015 No.7161209 File: 48 KB, 615x623, James-Franco.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sat Sep 26 06:41:05 2015 No.7161249

i think i would like franco if he was a short story guy. his stuff goes on too long about stuff normal people either dont care about or have moved past.

it seems like he is one of those guys who gets really excited about reading like art of war and wants to create something iconic like that, but lacks the tools to do it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 06:42:59 2015 No.7161250 >>7159041 Rivers Cuomo is a better writer and English student

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 06:44:02 2015 No.7161251 >>7161064 I like it when people who don't go to college comment on anything college related.

Anonymous Sat Sep 26 07:26:36 2015 No.7161296

>>7161043
He does gay things and identifies with gay icons but he isn't gay. He produced/directed the artsy gay film Interior Leather Bar, plays gay/bi characters like James Dean, once posted a picture of himself dressed as Batman with cum on his face... etc. People (ultraliberals and ultraconservatives, mostly) don't like this for all kinds of reasons.

He has a BFA in English from UCLA, MFAs in writing from Columbia University and Brooklyn College, an MFA in film from NYU's Tisch, and he's working on his PhD at Yale. He took up to 62 credits per quarter (when a normal student is limited to 19). He also earned credits for his work on Spider-Man 3. People (including a former professor) have come out and said that he didn't earn his grades and was given his degrees because of his fame.

He's had his short films, paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installation pieces... etc. featured at important art galleries. Some people think this happened because of his fame and not the quality of his art. Same thing happened when he became a published writer. Same thing happened when he became a dance-theater director at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Same thing happened when he was given a teaching position at NYU's Tisch. Same thing happened when he was given a teaching position at Palo Alto High School.

He also tried to bang a 17-year-old girl and that pissed off a bunch of people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 08:13:00 2015 No.7161361 >>7159041 think he's a douchebag tbh fam, chicks like him though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 09:14:28 2015 No.7161464 >>7161206 pathetic, leave.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 09:22:19 2015 No.7161488 "Vietnam" and "Lockheed" are amazing short stories, he's better than the alt lit hacks out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 09:49:04 2015 No.7161523 >>7159041 his poetry consists of various deliberately committed atrocities, on par with Mylai or the Wounded Knee massacre

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 09:59:52 2015 No.7161537 File: 33 KB, 400x159, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7161165 only about a century late

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 10:11:25 2015 No.7161553 >>7161165 every kid who knows anything basic about philosophy thinks this not that it's true, but it's very common

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 11:19:17 2015 No.7161663 File: 605 KB, 500x281, JfU14yehSUVxu.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 11:57:23 2015 No.7161747 he is a lou reed tier talentless hack

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 12:04:19 2015 No.7161769 His brother Dave is clearly the patrician of the family

Anonymous Sat Sep 26 12:13:40 2015 No.7161791

>>7161553
>every kid who knows anything basic about philosophy thinks this
Can you explain why 'every kid who knows anything basic about philosophy', who are, presumably, just beginning to wrestle with ideas like utilitarianism, the Ship of Theseus, existentialism., would automatically conclude the thesis of general semantics and post-structuralism (where that quote actually came from)?

>not that it's true, but it's very common
Could you explain why the Korzybskian semantic framework may be a false supposition?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 12:15:06 2015 No.7161803 lmao I just saw a Scion commercial with Franco about how he's an 'artist'

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 12:24:33 2015 No.7161823 >>7161803 *artiste

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 12:36:37 2015 No.7161850 File: 73 KB, 810x646, I’m Proud Of You, 2012, by James Franco.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7161803 he literally is an artist tho

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 16:18:26 2015 No.7162722 >>7161250 k

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 16:42:14 2015 No.7162816 File: 91 KB, 600x467, Dota2_Items_Pudge_Ingame_600x467.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7161172

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 26 17:44:28 2015 No.7163075 Anybody here saw his adaptation of Blood Meridian? Just one scene.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 01:35:56 2015 No.7164505 >>7161043 Because he's a fucking moron and it's obvious to anyone who watches planet of the apes

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 03:43:31 2015 No.7164763 >>7164505 wat

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 04:03:52 2015 No.7164798 >>7161165 wow nigga writes high school philosophy in 3rd person. Quite an evolution in human evaluative orientation. >The orange analogy fuckin kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 11:47:36 2015 No.7165775 File: 68 KB, 600x500, 1408632669727.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7164798 >Quite an evolution in human evaluative orientation. Third-Person-Franco is the final boss of philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 11:53:18 2015 No.7165794 >>7161165 Isn't that straight out of Kant?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:06:05 2015 No.7165833 >>7161165 So he took a page out of a Robert Antin Wilson and rewrote it in a terrible way

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