James Franco's NYU Thesis Project Contains Shocking Amount Of Male Nudity, Men Peeing: Life & Style

Omnipresent New Yorker James Franco is receiving terrible reviews -- for his thesis.

The NYU/Columbia/Yale student showed his film project at NYU recently, and according to a Life & Style source, "It pretty much had no plot and featured men in clown masks, men in dog masks, and shots of male genitalia urinating. I think everyone was shocked by how much male nudity there was."

Franco recently did a film interview with artist Marina Abramovic that seemed to go over much better.

Comments

[PaticaDeGato]

12:03 PM on 06/30/2010

where can I find it?

[Darcman]

08:23 AM on 05/17/2010

This guy should just come out! Half of Hollywood is gay, it's not a big deal anymore!

[stevebol]

02:57 AM on 05/16/2010

This is the norm in film school. Nothing unusual.

[middleoftheroad]

08:56 PM on 05/17/2010

That's because 99.99% of kids in film school had never even worked on a professional set as a career. He should know better and shown a bit of professionalism in his story telling. I agree with Darcman.

[WestcoastSteve]

02:59 PM on 05/15/2010

"It pretty much had no plot and featured men in clown masks, men in dog masks, and shots of male genitalia urinating."

Despite that, this film is probably better than most things Hollywood is putting out.

With a few exceptions, its just an endless stream of crap films, every year. The American film industry reminds me of the arrogant American car industry, which believed that nobody in the world could make cars better, but look what happened.

With the film industry going global, and films being easier to make than cars, Hollywood is going to fade into total obscurity if the don't start putting out better movies. Or maybe the entertainment execs feel we need an endless stream of Will Ferrel movies or movies based on board games, because those are underappreciated genres.

[Puller58]

12:13 PM on 05/15/2010

Phone it in boy, phone it in.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

04:02 AM on 05/15/2010

He looks gross in that picture right there

[hubbahubba77]

07:58 PM on 05/14/2010

I think James Franco needs to have his own Big News page on HP. Seriously, he's earned it! And we deserve it!

[DrBlunt]

01:38 PM on 05/14/2010

He's (doing) JUST FINE! :)

[Liz DeBagara]

12:11 PM on 05/14/2010

Um, is it weird that I could actually come up with a pretty decent thesis narrative to go with that video "Men and male characteristics are so on display in our society, and yet their true selves are also hidden from others, such that nudity and personal revelations of their private behavior are shocking..."

Yeah. I read way too much film criticism :)

[David McDevitt]

10:32 AM on 05/14/2010

OMG MALE NUDITY!!!!! profane

[octopi]

09:46 AM on 05/14/2010

"It pretty much had no plot and featured men in clown masks, men in dog masks, and shots of male genitalia urinating. I think everyone was shocked by how much male nudity there was."

Sounds like a sincere comment on Hollywood's double standards. What were they expecting a plot for in a thesis?

[wowalib]

09:35 AM on 05/14/2010

What's the name of the film? I want to see it.

[BigBagel]

09:38 AM on 05/14/2010

Yellow River.

[Sabum]

10:07 AM on 05/14/2010

Ha! Now that's gold!

[DrBlunt]

01:39 PM on 05/14/2010

LOL -2 funny!

[mgh234]

09:08 AM on 05/14/2010

How is this shocking for a Tisch Thesis... I would say this is rather tame compared to what some kids I know did at NYU...

[BigBagel]

09:38 AM on 05/14/2010

What films about number 2??

[Darcman]

08:20 AM on 05/17/2010

LOL!

[orange county man]

09:03 AM on 05/14/2010

I hope he doesn't take as long as Ricky Martin did!

[SBrooksB]

08:09 PM on 05/14/2010

Anytime a straight actor plays "gay" in a film ("Milk"), rumors swirl. It's inevitable and silly.

Take it from a gay man with superb gaydar ― James Franco is 98% straight. (I'd say 100%, but I'm not sure that anyone is 100% anything.)

Franco's masculinity is loose, relaxed, and unforced. He seems like a man very much at home in his own skin.

Hot, gay, closeted stars tend to lack that kind of unselfconsciousness. To me, a closeted actor's masculinity often feels subtly "arranged" and a little too perfect. It's a vibe, and hard to explain, but James Franco doesn't give off that vibe at all. Just my opinion.

Mind you, I'd love to be wrong! (But I don't think I am.)

[bushwickfreddy]

11:13 PM on 05/16/2010

WOW!! You are suddenly the expert on someone's sexuality due NOT to actually having any first-hand knowledge but because of your 'superb gaydar'...that' s priceless and hysterical...and sad...

[RButler]

08:49 AM on 05/14/2010

I usually think of ridiculous, gimmicky so-called art as 'TP Art' in that it reminds me of when teenagers toilet paper someone's house at night, it's quite a spectacle but it's not art.

I dropped a bottle of spaghetti sauce on the kitchen floor by accident. It made a big spatter but it's not art either unless the sole criteria for something being 'art' is for someone to call it 'art'. We get a lot of that lately.

I think we need a better definition of what is art unless everything is art.

[paganmist]

11:01 AM on 05/14/2010

The spill wasn't art, but I bet a good photographer could take a photo of the splatter that could be considered art.

I think the major issue is that there's no set definition for "art" other than if someone thinks it is.

[RButler]

08:42 PM on 05/14/2010

I know. That really defines 'art' downward doesn't it?