Watch James Franco Destroy A Bedroom For 32 Minutes (Or 50 Seconds)
The upcoming issue of Dave Eggers's Wholpin DVDgazine is going to feature a short film ("directed" by Eggz himself) in which Jams Franco spends 32 real-time minutes destroying a bedroom. Did you hear that, ladies? 32 minutes of fantasiez made real. You can pretend that it's your clothing he's tying around his head, and your mattress that he's flipped over onto a pile of broken glass and crushed plaster to take a bloody-knuckled nap after just going monster on the world. JUST LIKE U ALWAYS DREAMED. "Oh, James, you've ruined all of my stuff, but I don't even care! I'm a girl!"
Or you could just watch the 50 second preview clip after the jump, because seriously, 50 seconds is plenty. We get it. He's a smash-town dreamboat.
My INSIDE SOURCES tell me that the issue will also feature room destruction by Maria Bamford and Creed Bratton. Is this particular moment in American in which the economy is giving everyone stomach cramps and panicked nightmares really the right moment to have three different celebrities* smash perfectly good bedrooms for art? MAYBE!
*Basically.
Posted by Gabe at 5:15 PM in What America Wants
Tags: Dave Eggers | James Franco
If it's Dave Eggers I'll buy it
Score = -5
*gets on her soapbox* In a time of recession like we're in now, how insulting is it to people who can't afford those lamps and mirrors and shelves to have them destroyed for seemingly no reason *gets off soapbox*
He's a dreamboat.
Score = 10
I hate to agree, but I could have used those effin shelves for all the books strewn about my room.
Fuckin' James Franco and your Fuckin' art and shit.
Score = 13
Don't be jealous of our crush on James Franco. I'd probably watch a 30-minute video of you trashing a bedroom, too.
Score = 13
But seriously, is he f-ing that lamp in that picture?
Score = 6
I have no idea who this Dave Eggers is, but we're best friends now.
Score = -1
want him to metaphorically destroy me that way
Score = 6
Ok wait though - I haven't watched the video yet but my initial reaction to that photo was, "Oh, James Franco recreated that scene from The Room - I guess because he likes to do parody videos..." Then my eye caught the title of the video, which begins with "The Room..."
Tricky tricky.
Score = 1
Would you people shut up about the morality of doing this during the recession. It'd be one thing if it was "We asked James Franco to destroy this bedroom in a house that was built by Habitat for Humanity".
Score = 0
calm down butternuts
Score = 11
You know what? We're in a recession, goddammit. How dare anybody make anything anywhere. This is bullshit. People with their cameras and their creativity.
I don't see Jay McInterney making a movie. What's McInterney doing? Nothing, that's right, nothing! Why?Because McInterney feels your pain in these troubled economic times.
Also, I'm hungry.
Score = 2
I go “mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!”
Score = 4
This isn't art. I destroy a room better than this nilly every goddamned night when I come back from drinking with my buddies.
Score = -10
It IS just like I always dreamed! This video is the perfect alternative to the instantly regrettable real-life Angsty Bad-Boy Boyfriend. You get all of the incredulity, horrified delight and sense of superiority of watching this big handsome testosterone-addled toddler throw a tantrum, without having to lend him money or listen to those excruciating monologues about how he's never felt really accepted by his father. It won'tt even leave a lingering vomit-odor in your car. I pretty much love it.
Score = 7
if there really is a 32 minute video of creed bratton destroying a room, everyone will stop complaining about it.
Score = -1