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As a consumer of television and other media, I had heard of James Franco and
Seth Rogen, although I haven't seen any of the movies mentioned in the article.
First, let me ask, have they been silenced? I don't think so. Whoever is
responsible for the attack on them has brought them into greater prominence.
At first I wondered if this was all an elaborate stunt to promote the movie.
An attack such as this may have the effect of shifting discussion from the
merit of the movie to the merit of the attack. Does it broaden the audience
for a left critique of the movie or does it narrow such an audience? That
remains to be seen.
If this attack increases fear and insecurity among Americans, it may increase
support for a stronger security state. Not an outcome that we would want to
see.
ken h
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Message from Louis Proyect, December 22.
These are the fatuous leaders of the “frat pack” that have helped to poison
American film comedy for a generation. They’re still doing dull
self-referential retreads of the Judd Apatow bromantic comedy shtick that
seemed sort of fresh back in the mid-2000s with The 40-Year-Old Virgin and
Superbad, but almost ten years later stinks like a rotting corpse. James Franco
got wearisome fastest, with his much-mocked dilettante escapades as absentee
New York University student, rotten poet, bad video artist, shill for Gucci
men’s cologne, and reviled Oscar ceremony host, but Seth Rogen’s gaining on
him.
full: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/interview-seth-rogan-james-franco/
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