Saturday, April 7, 2018

James Franco is a jerk to Tommy Wiseau



I read this review of The Disaster Artist by Isabel Braham: http://miscellanynews.org/2018/03/28/arts/a-disaster-behind-the-scenes-james-franco-disappoints/

It was interesting----focuses on James Franco cashing in on Tommy Wiseau's work then acting like a jerk towards him.
That said, “The Disaster Artist” really only capitalized off of the greatness of “The Room” and helped the movie reach a more mainstream audience. Personally, I found that “The Disaster Artist” as its own entity was hard to champion; much of my reasoning for this was due to what I found out about Franco after I saw the movie. In my brief moment of becoming a cult follower of “The Room,” I watched a lot of interviews with Wiseau and Franco. I was aware that Franco isn’t known to be the nicest person in Hollywood, but I was shocked to see him be a complete jerk to Wiseau in his interviews about the movie. He would cut Wiseau off mid-sentence and openly make fun of him. For someone who essentially hijacked and greatly profited off of another person’s creative ideas, Franco could have been more respectful to the person who inspired him.
She says she didn't find the accusations of sexual misconduct against Franco surprising, all things considered.

I didn't know Franco was such a jerk. He's a terrible writer and an artistic and academic fraud. He took enough credits to graduate from college in one term then enrolled in several graduate programs at once. If he's such a genius, why does he waste his super-intellect on creative writing and conceptual art? He's done nothing that required any brains.

He doesn't mind having gay fans. There's nothing unusual about that, but it seems to be Franco's one claim to being a decent person.

There's one comment on the article. I don't know if it was from a real person. It was just an extremely rude attack on the women who accused Franco of sexual harassment and it was from someone called "Special Needs Mom". The attack on the women didn't really make sense and it didn't make sense as a response to the article. You think there are bots out there defending James Franco?

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