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Is Actor James Franco Sending the Wrong Message to Today’s Teens?
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RedditFrom daytime soaps to Hollywood blockbusters, twentysomething actor James Franco is everywhere these days. Women have crowned him the newest celebrity sex symbol. Homosexuals imagine him to be a “fellow traveler.” The man himself is an enigma, exuding a cool confidence in his tabloid interviews while heaping out feminine quantities of emotion on the big screen. Yet the most surprising fact about Mr. Franco, as any experienced cinema journalist will readily note, is that someone with such limited acting abilities has made it so far.
As more and more young people become engrossed in this man’s work, Mr. Franco’s inexplicable success and underlying message need to be addressed for anxious families across the nation. The mystery of this actor’s sudden appearance in American culture is partly explained by the controversial roles he has played. Besides his inclusion in the film series Spiderman, he is most well known for portraying Allen Ginsberg, the homosexual Jewish poet and founder of the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). He won awards for appearing in Milk, a Hollywood blockbuster that details the life of 1970s homosexual socialist activist Harvey Milk. He also played a central role in the youth-oriented comedy Pineapple Express, an incredibly ill-advised movie that glorifies teen drug addiction. From this straightforward evidence, it’s not difficult to see that there is a decidely anti-Christian, extreme liberal tone to this man’s work.
On screen, there is something surprisingly disappointing about James Franco’s acting. He seems purely out of his depth with monologues, muddling his words and speaking with a sort of lispy faux-English speech impediment. His eyes regularly float out of focus, as if he’s trying to remember his lines or is hoping some off stage helper will whisper them to him. At times, he gazes confusedly straight into the camera. Heavy, awkward pauses plague him. They seem to last minutes and one wonders how many times Mr. Franco’s sequences had to be refilmed and edited to make him look somewhat coherent.
Physically, he lacks any quality of wholesomeness or moral beauty. Instead, he is wispy and effete, languid and unwashed. He often speaks with his hands and his fingers are exceptional for their delicacy. His frail frame is usually covered with dark, threadbare clothing that looks as if it has been plucked from the bottom of a Salvation Army bin. One imagines his flesh to have a briny smell– a hint of French cologne layered over a miasma of cigarettes and greasy French fries. Sadly, this anemic look has not kept Franco from appearing bare-chested regularly in public. The paparazzi (and the teen girls who follow gossip blogs) love it.
Again, all of this begs the question, why is James Franco here? Not only is he homely and untalented, he has a notorious past as a perfume thief and college dropout. Yet somehow the Hollywood liberal power elite has foisted him upon us and expects us to wholly swallow his product. It is clear from the roles he plays that Mr. Franco is promoting a sodomite atheist agenda. He chooses characters that celebrate the privileged homosexual, the ivy tower intellectual, the voracious libertine feasting on the detritus of a once great nation. This extremist activism fits in perfectly with the larger liberal agenda that rules Hollywood today. One wonders if early in his life Franco made a “deal with the devil” to promote radicalism in exchange for a film career. It’s not hard to piece together a scene where this waif of a man was picked up on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip by Hollywood’s velvet mafia media kingpins cruising for new meat in their white limousines. (There have also been rumors, which I will not gratify here, that Franco was secretly “gay married” to actor John Travolta for a time.)
What America needs is hearty, freckle-faced heroes, boys who are guileless and full of hope. Instead the liberal media gives us Franco, looking as if he’s just masturbated himself awake and is aching for that first bong hit. Whatever happened to the broad-shouldered Michael Landons of the past? The young Christopher Reeve with those stunning blue eyes? A perfectly toned Charlton Heston whose perfectly toned voice exuded virility and moral vision? When you compare Franco’s cheaply manufactured cool to one of America’s most underappreciated actors, James Garner, there is no comparison. Jim Rockford was a master of cool, a brilliant natural.
America needs to say no more to the hateful James Franco anti-Christian propoganda machine. His embrace of the radical homosexual agenda is dangerous. The attempt to make him a role model for today’s teens is offensive and wrong. He has become a sex symbol for the weak and dejected, girls confused by a media culture that has turned rebellion into a savvy marketing ploy. For homosexual men, Franco seems to be on a personal crusade to bring back the beatnik style of the 1950s, complete with its carnal ambiguity and drug abuse. This scatterbrained intellectual featherweight is little more than a cliché of bad clichés, a half slice of a man, an atheist libertine who doesn’t even appear cognizant of the roles that he’s playing.
In the end, we must all be faithful to God’s word on this subject, as expressed so powerfully in Exodus:
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. –Exodus 20:3-6
4:18 pm
So because you think one dude is a bad actor and is in movies you don’t like, that means that he’s sending the ‘wrong message’ to people, and instead people should look up to has-beens who can’t act worth a damn in modern times?
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1:56 pm
Hi, I think the case is quite clear here. Franco himself admits that he’s secular and wholly embraces the homosexual agenda. If our children are fetishizing this man, shouldn’t parents be aware of his full package of radical beliefs? I believe this article stands on its own merits and you, once again, has someone impertinent ax to grind. I hope some day you understand that Jesus Christ is a Savior to all of us, you included. Your sins will be judged.
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8:45 pm
Judgement, oh jeez your deluded..
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4:48 am
I want to be aware of Franco’s full package.
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4:43 pm
Strong message, Stephenson, one that is crucial for today’s youth wrapped up in poetry readings and rumpus pomps.
I recently released an article on the Ten Enemies of Christ for the week ending April 23 which included James Franco in the title. Late in the night, soon after appearing on ChristWire, tweets began to appear in a strange language. Research revealed the language to be French. It seems that Franco means French.
Your vigilance and deft touch are needed to keep his French influence to a minimum. We must proclaim HoNo to Franco! from the roof tops.
Kind regards,
BB
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7:21 pm
Give me a break. “Ten Enemies of Christ” reminds me why the rest of the world is turning away from Christianity; youguys make your own enemies with shit statements like that.
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10:22 pm
Amen
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1:59 pm
Thank you for the comment Blanche!
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5:26 pm
Welcome home, big bear!
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5:22 pm
1. Somebody should really fact check before publishing an article which is full of multiple untruths…it’s embarrassing for Christians to be represented in this way as if this article is actually accurate.
2. I don’t know why you have the picture of the guy with the bare chest and the towel around him–that is not James Franco.
3. James Franco is not “twenty-something”–he is thirty-three.
4. You call him a “college drop-out” and the man has 3 masters degrees and enrolled in a PhD program at Yale University in September of 2010.
5. His hands and fingers are HUGE, not “exceptional for their delicacy”.
6. He does not appear “bare chested regularly in public” which I suppose is why you had to put up a random picture of some random bare chested guy and purport it to be Franco as it is difficult to find a picture of him in this manner other than perhaps a Gucci ad.
7. You don’t want to “gratify rumors here” while you spread them.
8.You have taken it upon yourself to not only judge his God-made appearance, but his God-given talents as well.
9.You, sir, are a “bad cliche or bad cliches”.
10. You should repent. You’re lying and it isn’t nice.
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11:51 pm
Calling someone a lying liar is nice by your standards?
As far as “actually accurate” and your deceptive double talk, I think you might be under the spell of the repetitive hypnosis of those like this James Franco.
The fellowship will pray for your release from this malaise before you spread it all over your body.
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3:04 am
Do you realize this is a satirical website?
The article is fake. All the articles are fake. Designed to annoy and make fun of stupid Christians.
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3:06 am
Do you realize this is a satirical website?
The article is fake. All the articles are fake. Designed to annoy and make fun of you people.
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2:04 pm
Hi George, James Franco did in fact drop out of college against his parents wishes. I didn’t want to delve into his ridiculous attempt to rack up all those degrees in recent years. If he wasn’t a celebrity, do you think all these liberal institutions would be falling over themselves to admit him into their programs? Your comment is a bit absurd, don’t you think? And you completely avoided the thrust of my article. This is indeed a moral question.
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5:19 pm
Stephenson you need to do your homework before you print something, George nailed it. Better look at when he got those degrees, they were before he was a star. You are so full of hate that you can’t even see what you are doing is guided by satin and your little blanche follower is right on your heals. You are a bunch of judgementle fools. We are not to judge but love all. You need to go back to your bible and read it. Try starting in the testament cause thats what jesus wants you to read..
This Fag will pray for you..
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5:46 pm
That’s a picture of Ashton Kutcher. Man get your sh*t together.
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6:12 pm
Do you really expect him to post pictures of the correct people? Let us not forget how he posted a picture of Kal Penn in his “article” about Aziz Ansari.
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10:21 pm
Correct people? There are no correct liberals, one is as wrong as the next. And they aim to trick the good Christian observer by imitating each other’s power bottom appearances.
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7:19 pm
That’s Ashton Kutcher, first of all.
Second of all, (George in the comments section) is the real journalist of this piece. Clearly, he did his research and knows about whom he’s speaking.
The author of this bit holds a blatant bias, as evidenced by this waste of journalistic trash.
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2:06 pm
Caleb, do you honestly spend all your time ferreting out barechested men on the internet? You may or may not be right about the photo, but that hardly matters. A young person such as yourself should be concerned with wholesome hobbies, not such sexual fascinatons.
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5:39 pm
“You may or may not be right about the photo, but that hardly matters.”
Um, I think it matters quite a bit whether or not a photo of the correct person is put up. Not to mention that this is your second offense in that department.
“A young person such as yourself should be concerned with wholesome hobbies, not such sexual fascinatons.”
There’s nothing sexual in pointing out that you put the wrong dude in your “article”.
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7:30 pm
This liberal, godless, sodomite, extremist is also promoting the delusion of evolution and racism in his new movie planet of the apes.
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10:11 pm
That is true. When Newt Gingrich is President, we will have this young Mr. Franco on trial for treason.
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10:28 pm
Amen, Sister Lurlene!
He is such a brave man. I am working on a dishtowel cross stitch of my favorite Newt quote:
“When I did things that were wrong, I wasn’t trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong & yet, I was doing them” – Newt
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6:23 pm
Not the most punctual comment but I couldn’t resist.
Evolution? A delusion?
You obviously know how to use the internet so why don’t you do your lopsided brain a favor and do some fact checking.
And you have labeled yourself an “intellectual.”
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7:34 pm
wanna have buttsex?
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10:20 pm
OK. Seriously?
To the author, like others have stated: check your facts. At least if you’re going to post a picture of this horrible “…scatterbrained intellectual featherweight is little more than a cliché of bad clichés, a half slice of a man, an atheist libertine who doesn’t even appear cognizant of the roles that he’s playing,” get the right guy. Also the man, quite possibly, has more graduate (note I said graduate) degrees than you have. Also, the man is working on two different PhD’s and is teaching. If he is really leaning on some kind of ‘deal with the devil’ then he must have gotten the platinum package.
Also about his past works. You kind of forgot three of his best works (in my opinion at least) Annapolis, Tristan and Isolde, and Flyboys. He stayed far away from the ‘sexually ambiguous’ and drugged out individual you like to make him out to be.
And, while yes it is rather difficult to find ‘good Christians’ in Hollywood, please don’t single people out and try some love every once in a while instead of this hate.
The Bible tells us to leave the judgement to God, so please do so.
P.S. THIS^^ is James Franco.
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10:23 pm
I can just see the gleeful pushing of the gay agenda in his features.
Repent!
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10:39 pm
And I can see the lonely bitch who cries herself to sleep because no one could possibly love her.
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1:56 pm
LOL you’re an ugly fat bitch that Satan wouldn’t touch, get a life you lying loser….. Newt WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT…. we have grown beyond the hypocrisy that is the Christian lies… get over it!!!
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2:08 pm
I found your comment unnecessary insulting. Can’t we have a calm discussion here, please?
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5:40 pm
Nobody likes you. Why can’t you accept that?
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10:32 pm
I think that James Gardner is handsomely manstuff. I think the fact he drives a Firebird just makes the danger more exciting. I would like take a ride to church with him.
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12:17 am
HAHAHHAHAHA. This is a joke, right?
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2:25 am
Please, please, please can someone (just 1 person) verify that the people commenting on this site are in on the joke.
I would hate to believe that there are so many people out there who can’t tell the difference between what is being presented as real and satire.
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12:44 pm
Dear Mr Billings,I have been a loyal follower of your site for some time. Here in Adelaide we are awash with the pungent foul stench of homosexuals. Well just last weekend they attempted a mass conversion on our streets. It does worry me that our young boys will be converted when they see homosexuality so brazenly played out in our cinemas and associated with bong smoking and fast cars. This depraved Franco, really someone must do something!
I have taken it on myself to go into the gents lavatory after each screening of any of his films at the local cinema and monitor the urinals and cubicles for any sign of masturbatory activity. This is the least that any upright Christian man would do.
Yours in Christ,
Stephen Bowling.
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10:36 pm
You should also go and check each altar boy for expanded anus disease…
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