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College can be pretty cool. I think my favorite part of college was the tiny glasses in the cafeteria so that you could get one of each kind of soda and also one of each kind of milk. So cool. You’d finish your lunch and you’d still have, like, six half-full glasses of drinks you didn’t even want and you knew that when you poured them. And a plate with a ton of fucking leftover food on it just because. Neat! This guy unfortunately knows what I’m talking about. But college is also really stupid sometimes. For example: “My son is at NYU experimenting with his bisexuality. He’s going to be a DJ.” Also for example (from CNN):
According to Movieline, the Oscar nominee/host has joined forces with Columbia College Hollywood for “Master Class: Editing James Franco… with James Franco.”
The course, taught by Franco’s frequent collaborator/editor Tyler Danna, will have 12 of the film school’s students creating a 30-minute documentary using footage from Franco’s career.
Franco, 32, will provide the footage — largely taken from short films he has directed — and lecture students via Skype as well as attend the class when possible. Each classroom session will also be taped for inclusion in the final documentary.
Just in case you were worried that James Franco teaching a (MASTER?!?!?!?!) class on editing using footage of himself wouldn’t be a big enough waste of people’s time and money, he will LECTURE STUDENTS VIA SKYPE. You guys, it is sooooooooo weird that the United States is falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in education! Don’t worry, as soon as this documentary…about a class…about James Franco…taught by James Franco…is finished being edited by…the students in the class…and distributed over Skype, USA is going to once again lead the world in innovation and industriousness. Chill brah, just give us a sec. Here, have a tiny glass of chocolate milk mixed with orange soda while you wait. (Thanks for the tip, au.)
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Is Gabe getting tips from The Onion again?
Eating the cafeteria? Where did you go to school, Gabe? Faber College?
You don’t understand art, Gabe.
Art, C’mon!!
We know what art is! It’s paintings of horses!
If my college experience is any indication, college is very stupid indeed.
#DisillusionedGum
James Franco is the puppet master, pulling our strings.
The rest of the industrialised world won’t be laughing when WW3 is decided by a quick-fire James Franco trivia quiz.
oh-no! James Franco played a character on general hospital named Franco. GO!….
WAIT! Does this mean that the students will be submitting…supercuts?
Quick! Someone post an image of the supercuts logo!
User name WIN.
Did Someone say Super Cute:
I think it was “Super Cutes.” Post one more!
I only wish Zhuang Zi hadn’t died sometime in 300 B.C. so that he could help me translate his works for grad school via Skype.
Wow, your degree sounds super useless. It doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with James Franco.
Fun fact: I am on that website. I have a chili pepper. Go me.
You’ve just described my life’s ambition. What’s it like?
It’s the coolest. I have yet to do anything that tops it.
#jealousgum
Fun fact: I too am on that website. Not so fun fact: I did not earn a chil pepper.
Just put on more makeup. Worked for me.
My mom has a chili pepper. Seriously. I don’t know how I feel about that.
Sorry, we didn’t find any professors that match your search. Please check yourself before you wreck yourself.
(That’s what college kids say, right?)
If only there were some way to express how good I think this is…
I can’t tell is you are being sarcastic, but I hope I’m not alone in anticipation for this potential comedy goldmine, unintentional and otherwise.
Facetaco is never less than 150% sincere about her love of James Franco.
Upvoted for being THE TRUTH.
And also gender is a social construct, or something like that?
I was just telling my students that they all need to become engineers and not massage therapists but I guess I should have told them they need to become engineers instead of film students making a documentary about James Franco, the professor. Much better example.
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I was just thinking that there were not enough Franco “so good” GIFs happening lately. Did Gabe put a moratoriam on those or something?
His RISD classes must have given him this idea.
If our teachers all looked like James Franco every kid would get a 2400 on the SATs, especially the charming and handsome section
I remember back when I first took the SATs (the 1930s), and it was only 1600 points. All of which were awarded for the charming and handsome section!
NYU to James Franco: Fuck you.
Yikes! Sorry, monsters. I was merely referring to NYU students’ disdain for Franco because he always snubbed the school when talking about the gajillion schools he was attending. And he got a D in his class there. And of course the Columbia/NYU rivalry. So I guess I should have clarified that.
Downvotes make me sad.
It’s okay Elisabeth, college is kind of stupid.
So are downvotes.
127 Credit Hours
Break? break.
This is a lesson to us all. If you frequently collaborate with James Franco, you just might get to teach a master class about him. And isn’t that what life is all about?
I have lectures through a Skype-like program coming up in my future (for accounting school) and I am actually very happy about it, because it means I get to avoid the aforementioned college cafeteria scene!!
Having studied in a comparable environment (graduate school, humanities) I have to say I find this kinda cool and not that surprising.
For one thing, there’s TONS of BS in the Humanities, especially in graduate courses, and yes this just reminds people (who may not have lots of firsthand experience with this) that it can be frequently ricidulous.
That said, I feel like this particular thing is actually pretty cool and maybe even useful? If I’m a film student (and I think there’s already some questions about the usefulness of post-graduate study of film at NYU, but let’s ignore that for the moment) … If I’m a film student and I’m trying to learn how to make good film, I would probably be pretty jazzed at working with someone who has as much experience as he does. And I’m evaluating this, of course, without any knowledge of how good a teacher James Franco could be (just having valuable experience clearly doesn’t mean that he can communicate that well to others). However, just with the bare facts here, it seems like this might be a perfectly good thing for NYU film school to do? Maybe even more useful than things they do normally?
Mind you, the Skype part is annoying. I don’t have any defense of that.
James Franco…teaching an editing class…using films featuring James Franco…to be filmed and made into a film starring James Franco?
I think this is where the space-time continuum rips, guys.
So this is just further evidence that Charlie Kaufman is writing James Franco’s life, right?
“Trick question: Footage of James Franco should never be edited.” I would write that on a piece of paper and hand it in for a grade.