If you've been to college, you've certainly had one of those classes where you skip most of the lectures, sleep through those you do attend, get a D in the class, and have the professor who gave you that D fired from the university. I'm sorry, what's that? You don't immediately have that professor fired? See, that's the difference between you and Spider-Man 3 star James Franco.
You also might have been lucid at some point in the last six months.
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Former New York University professor Jose Angel Santana has filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court claiming he was fired because the school wanted to stay in the good graces of James Franco. When Franco's performance was similarly poor in his other classes, he still received exemplary marks.
In fairness, this film class was probably studying Spider-Man 3.
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In addition to that, another NYU film professor, Jay Anania, was hired by Franco to write and direct a film while the chairman of the NYU film department, John Tintori, had a small role in a movie Franco financed. So did Franco bribe NYU to get a Masters degree in Film? I didn't see Sherlock Holmes 2 this weekend so I'm not necessarily qualified to play detective, but I do know that college professors are generally paid quite poorly, and often times wish to be paid more. And this James Franco character does have a lot of money.
Pictured: James Franco as a duck
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On the other hand, James Franco is an Academy Award nominated actor. It makes sense that he'd do well in his classes about film.
Alternate title: 'Holy Sh*t That Guy Straight-Up Cut His ARM Off: The Movie'
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Both the former professor Santana and NYU are pretty bitter about the situation, with Santana suggesting the firing may have been race related and NYU implying that Santana is dragging Franco into this solely to drum up publicity for himself. But I feel like both sides are forgetting this powerful quote from one of our generation's seminal films:
"We've all done terrible things to each other, but we have to forgive each other. Or everything we ever were will mean nothing."
Do you think Santana's firing was justified? Or does James Franco simply enjoy ending the careers of those who oppose him? Let us know in the comments!
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