Si vous avez regardez SNL animé par James Franco samedi soir, vu avez appris qu’il joue un rôle dans le soap américain General Hospital. Ma curiosité a été piqué, et j’ai regarder un épisode hier. Il joue effectivement un role. Plusieurs pourais penser que c’est un pas en arrière dans sa carrière et un mauvais move. Il a quand même été la tête d’affiche de quelques film dont Pinneapple Express l’année dernière.
Après quelque minute de surfing, j’ai trouvé un article, écrit par Franco lui même ou il explique pourquoi qu’il se retrouve dans cette série.
« I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed on to appear on 20 episodes of « General Hospital » as the bad-boy artist « Franco, just Franco. » I disrupted the audience’s suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn’t belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world. In performance art, the outcome is uncertain—and this was no exception. My hope was for people to ask themselves if soap operas are really that far from entertainment that is considered critically legitimate. Whether they did was out of my hands.
As Ms. Abramović told me over our dessert tasting, performance art is all about context. « If you bake some bread in a museum space it becomes art, but if you do it at home you’re a baker. » Likewise, when I wear green makeup and fly across a rooftop in « Spider-Man 3, » I’m working as an actor, but were I to do the same thing on the subway platform, a host of possibilities would open up. Playing the Green Goblin in the subway would no longer be about creating the illusion that I am flying. It would be about inserting myself in a familiar space in such a way that it becomes stranger than fiction, along the lines of what I’m doing on « General Hospital. » »
Assez intéressant comme réflexion et comme approche. Planter un élément distrayant dans un produit parfait.
De mon point de vue, quelqu’un qui n’écoute pas de soap, quand j’ai vu des extraits, ou quand il est à l’écran, j’ai eu l’impression de voir une parodie de soap dans un film de Judd Apatow. Je serais curieux d’entendre l’opinion de quelqu’un qui écoute la série General Hospital.
Pour lire l’article au complet.
et voici quelques minutes de James Franco dans General Hospital
-Chen