On this week's rendition of "Everybody Look At James Franco!" he's hosting a satanic wedding party in a clip for his band Daddy's song "Love in The Old Days [Remix]."
The Oz, The Great and Powerful and Spring Breakers star is known for his eccentricity. Not in a “buy all the dinosaur bones and snake venom” Nick Cage kind of way, more of a “everything I do is weird pretentious and kind of stupid, but you can’t say anything about it because it’s art, man” kind of way. Over the last couple years, Franco has starred in clips with naked biker ladies, attached a fake penis to his face and filmed himself walking around Paris, painted himself pink and started a museum of invisible art. Though it’s received a lot of press, his decision to portray a clone of little-known Floridian rapper Dangeruss in a Harmony Korine film is about the least weird thing he’s ever done.
Anyway here we see Franco direct a video of a satanic wedding party. (Bonus Trivia: the officiant is Kenneth Anger, the 86-year-old experimental filmmaker whose homoerotic, occultist shorts make him a legend among certain circles). The ceremony takes place at a strip club and if the phrase “Anger plays a theremin in a strip club while a topless couple make out” doesn’t give you a gist of the video let me just say it’s not safe for work.
“When I went to NYU for film, I was always looking for ways to Anger up my films," says Franco via statement. "My first one in particular, 'The Feast of Stephen' owes a lot to Anger, the way his camera transformed a gang of real 1960 bikers into homoerotic gods. In other films and projects I loved the way he took celebrity and the occult and fused them in Eisensteinian juxtapositions to achieve a greater, spiritual/aesthetic significance."
Yes, that’s the sort of thing that Franco says all the time. Get used to it, folks.
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