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alivemagdolene

I'll Just Be... Uh...

Jun 23, 2011 12:29

From the description:

James Franco (as Allen Ginsberg) and Aaron Tveit (as Peter Orlovsky) in the film "Howl ( Read more... )

rights and attractions, and now a video montage, let's talk about the moving pictures

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myownghost June 23 2011, 16:33:40 UTC

unf is right! wow. i wonder if franco studied ginsberg's vocal patterns to get that hesitant rhythm. he's gorgeous!

warriorpoet June 24 2011, 08:22:14 UTC

I've been wanting to see this for almost a year now, and I still haven't gone to the effort of tracking it down. I should probably get on that.

alivemagdolene June 24 2011, 09:56:03 UTC

I've heard good things.
And hay-soos Christ, I think I've worn out this clip by watching it.

Who knew Allen Ginsberg was so adorkable when he was young? I am only familiar with his later self.

alivemagdolene October 18 2011, 22:24:33 UTC

I got Howl for my birthday as one of many lovely and ridiculously generous gifts from punkishgrin and it was... damn. Trippy.

But the real reason I went back and found this thread is this:

As Franco himself pointed out, “The Broken Tower” also contains two scenes apt to stir up a lot of discussion. One is a 10-minute sequence in which the action stops and we stay on Crane’s face as he reads the entirety of his long, thorny poem “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen.”

The second is an oral sex scene between Crane and another man that at one point gets so explicit as to all but guarantee an NC-17 rating. (Though the scene is dimly lit, it clearly shows Franco performing oral sex on what is reportedly a prosthetic penis.)

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