Joaquin Phoenix

[IAPAI]

Am I the only one who thinks he is just trying to pull a huge joke on everyone, ala Borat or Bruno?

I think we're all going to laugh our asses off when his "documentary" by Casey Affleck comes out.
Or has he seriously gone off the deep end?

Here's his rap performance from the weekend:
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And here is where he falls off the stage:

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[Trainsaw]

i just saw this and was about to post it, his rap career is starting off very well

[guiguedz]

hahahah. This is gonna be awesome.

[IAPAI]

Seriously though,

It's gotta be a joke, right?

[airik625]

he's lost his shit.

[IAPAI]

he's lost his shit.

But if he really has lost his shit, don't you think his friends would say "Let's get him some help" not "Let's make a documentary about his life falling apart."

[lindZ629]

He seems heavily intoxicated.

[Recovery Room]

lol

[Adeniz19]

But if he really has lost his shit, don't you think his friends would say "Let's get him some help" not "Let's make a documentary about his life falling apart."how would they make money off his misery by doing that?

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

If this is a big joke, it's pretty good.

[IAPAI]

Here's a video of him being interviewed.

http://www.rawvegas.tv/watch/joaquin-phoenix-hosts-lavo-nightclub-talks-about-upcoming-hip-hop-album-and-retirement-from-acting/df20060aab3f0332853990b5a9617b

This has to be an elaborate joke. He is so fucked up, I can't imagine that if this was real people would still be supporting him rather than sending him to rehab.

[Adeniz19]

he thinks he's going to release an album in a month? is it even completed? hahaha

[jusscali]

I think you are right on with the joke part of it, itll make on awesome movie haha

[poppa Q]

Joaquin is a fucking man.

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

Okay, yeah, after watching the first video as well as the interview....I'm kind of leaning in the direction of this being an elaborate joke. He was usually pretty well composed in older interviews when he, "was an actor," and here he just seems almost unintelligible. If you listen closely to some of the lyrics in that first video, he seems to be throwing lines from popular songs in there ("it's getting hot in here" for example). In the interview he said his music will "drop" around February 14th....is that of this year or next? Besides that, white boy definitely can't dance. If I'm wrong and he turns out to be dead serious, it'll be worth a laugh, but yeah I think I'm becoming convinced of his tomfoolery...

[dissident]

i wish this was a joke, but i think he clearly has some problems right now.

www.filmdrunk.com (http://www.filmdrunk.com) a few stories down has him trying to explain it in an interview, he can barely speak through some of it

[PaulsRightNut]

he's probably taking crazy pills

[drudo182]

What a sweet beard.

Looks like he is having some serious issues.

[Ailite]

If this is an elaborate joke, its fucking brilliant.

If not, please, get the guy some help.

[AShannon04]

What a sweet beard.

Looks like he is having some serious issues.

Haha, your avatar would certainly know about beards & issues.

[poppa Q]

Haha, your avatar would certainly know about beards & issues.

HAHA.

[sdbrown]

Joaquin Pheonix = Britney Spears of 2009

I HOPE it's a joke, like someone said, it's hard to believe his family and friends would just sit back while he throws his career (and sanity) away...unless his family and friends and just humoring him to keep him from going off the deep end. You've gotta wonder what happened there.

[irthesteve]

no idea what is going on with him these days

[c_rob2700]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug?

[mht]

this is either the best method acting in the history to fool us all

or

he has really lost his shit and is giving us his best Robert Downey Jr impression, only making it hopefuly he can bounce back in a couple of years like Downey did. Maybe he will rock a superhero movie. The Green Latern or something cool. Hawkeye?

[c_rob2700]

Walk The Line 2?

[CTMarshall]

8 Mile II

[Ailite]

Snort The Line

[Bloodsucker II]

at least he has an epic beard

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

Walk The Line 2?

8 Mile II

Snort The Line

at least he has an epic beard
Hahahahaha, amazing.

[just.Starla.]

Hahaha I saw this earlier. Horrible. I think he might actually be serious about this.

Walk The Line 2?

8 Mile II

Snort The Line

lol

[dissident]

the only thing i can think of to support the joke theory is how can casey affleck be his brother-in-law and just cash in on his physical and career downfall.

[JustSway]

I hope to god this is an elaborate joke/stunt for the "documentary"

[AShannon04]

If this is all for real, Casey Affleck is losing any credibility he ever had.

[dissident]

he will win d-bag of the decade for sure, but damn if i won't watch it.

[Ailite]

Its gauranteed to be very interesting at least

[IAPAI]

the only thing i can think of to support the joke theory is how can casey affleck be his brother-in-law and just cash in on his physical and career downfall.

Exactly. How could his family and friends support this?

[drudo182]

I can't wait til his album drops.

[drudo182]

In the clips and amid rumours he intends to work with Sean Combs, Phoenix looks like a filthy hog; broad and bloated, his hair virtually obscuring his face; his ruined jeans exposing, repulsively, the tip of his penis. The rapping he performs consists of him yelling and smoking, then whistling energetically, then falling off the stage. It is ridiculous, not tragic, but vile – an attempt on his and Affleck's part to mock his credulous admirers and put one over on the kind of straight media Phoenix despises (when promoting Walk the Line, he would stop interviews to ask if an alien was growing out of his head, and so on). This behaviour may be intriguing as instances of performance art, in which the actor is expressing, covertly, his disdain for the star system, which is, arguably, a revolting tissue of lies and imposture.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090119.wcrosbie0120/BNStory/Entertainment/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

LOL

[dissident]

so this may be a mixture of trickery AND drugs! that i can get behind.

[CstSnow]

Echoing what others have said , this has to be a joke, if he was truly that far off the deep end people would be trying to get him help not humoring him and making a movie about it.

[drudo182]

I don't know if I believe the idea that people would be trying to help him. I'd like to think so yet at the same time, I can see people just humoring him.

[dissident]

don't forget his family has a history of addiction and they might just have a "fuck it" attitude. it's not right, but still.

[JustSway]

The more I think about this,its probably trickery/method acting to the highest degree. I wouldnt be surprised if Afflecks documentary was more a documentary of reactions to this behaviour, the media and the societal reactions to this than a "lol look hes destroying himself"

[dissident]

The more I think about this,its probably trickery/method acting to the highest degree. I wouldnt be surprised if Afflecks documentary was more a documentary of reactions to this behaviour, the media and the societal reactions to this than a "lol look hes destroying himself"

this would be fantastic, either way it's going to be great.

[JustSway]

this would be fantastic, either way it's going to be great.

It's going to be one to remember, that's for sure.

[IAPAI]

In the clips and amid rumours he intends to work with Sean Combs, Phoenix looks like a filthy hog; broad and bloated, his hair virtually obscuring his face; his ruined jeans exposing, repulsively, the tip of his penis. The rapping he performs consists of him yelling and smoking, then whistling energetically, then falling off the stage. It is ridiculous, not tragic, but vile – an attempt on his and Affleck's part to mock his credulous admirers and put one over on the kind of straight media Phoenix despises (when promoting Walk the Line, he would stop interviews to ask if an alien was growing out of his head, and so on). This behaviour may be intriguing as instances of performance art, in which the actor is expressing, covertly, his disdain for the star system, which is, arguably, a revolting tissue of lies and imposture.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090119.wcrosbie0120/BNStory/Entertainment/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

LOL

that is so bad ass, and exactly what I thought he was doing. Going to be great when it comes out, assuming not too many people catch on before it's done.

[SgtSmegma]

lolololololololololol

[popdisaster00]

Can someone explain this documentary to me? I didn't know it was happening.

There is no way this isn't a joke. It has to be. He's going to fool everyone and we're all going to be laughing hysterically when he pulls it off.

[popdisaster00]

Also had no idea River Phoenix was his brother....why, I don't know

[Ailite]

In the clips and amid rumours he intends to work with Sean Combs, Phoenix looks like a filthy hog; broad and bloated, his hair virtually obscuring his face; his ruined jeans exposing, repulsively, the tip of his penis. The rapping he performs consists of him yelling and smoking, then whistling energetically, then falling off the stage. It is ridiculous, not tragic, but vile – an attempt on his and Affleck's part to mock his credulous admirers and put one over on the kind of straight media Phoenix despises (when promoting Walk the Line, he would stop interviews to ask if an alien was growing out of his head, and so on). This behaviour may be intriguing as instances of performance art, in which the actor is expressing, covertly, his disdain for the star system, which is, arguably, a revolting tissue of lies and imposture.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090119.wcrosbie0120/BNStory/Entertainment/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

LOL
Hahaha, awesome.

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Also had no idea River Phoenix was his brother....why, I don't know
:hitself: jk.

Poor Joaquin. He was awesome in Gladiator and Quills--course the latter was badass simply by virtue of the fact that Geoffrey Rush used his own shit to write on the walls.

[drudo182]

I really liked him Signs and Buffalo Soldiers.

[IamTheINDUSTRY]

yeah - i really dont want it to get out that this is a joke, but some of the stuff - i.e. his dick showing, etc. is so off the wall and crazy that i think it will become widely known soon. if britney spears had secretly done this - now THAT would have made for a great movie. either way, this will be a smart movie.

[drudo182]

http://www.discoveringjoaquin.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10084/phoenix_affleck_8_wenn2249124.jpg

Owns.

[IAPAI]

http://www.discoveringjoaquin.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10084/phoenix_affleck_8_wenn2249124.jpg

Owns.

This guy is awesome.

[drudo182]

HA. Seriously, he is. I keep showing everyone these pics and videos. I'm obsessed.

Love it!

[dissident]

this doesn't completely make sense to me either way you slice it. either he's not kidding and everyone's a piece of shit for not helping him out, or he is joking and i feel like he's kind of making a mockery of what brought his own brother down.

[drudo182]

My theory. He is serious about the whole thing but as a back up plan, in case it all goes to hell and he fails miserably, he has asked his brother-in-law to film it so he can pull the "joke" card out later and say it was all done on purpose.

[gusta0117]

he was one of my favorite actors. i cant wait to see his "last" movie

[dissident]

My theory. He is serious about the whole thing but as a back up plan, in case it all goes to hell and he fails miserably, he has asked his brother-in-law to film it so he can pull the "joke" card out later and say it was all done on purpose.

i hope this post is a joke.

[Charles777]

Okay, yeah, after watching the first video as well as the interview....I'm kind of leaning in the direction of this being an elaborate joke. He was usually pretty well composed in older interviews when he, "was an actor," and here he just seems almost unintelligible. If you listen closely to some of the lyrics in that first video, he seems to be throwing lines from popular songs in there ("it's getting hot in here" for example). In the interview he said his music will "drop" around February 14th....is that of this year or next? Besides that, white boy definitely can't dance. If I'm wrong and he turns out to be dead serious, it'll be worth a laugh, but yeah I think I'm becoming convinced of his tomfoolery...
God damn alien bodysnatchers

[manican sex]

gotta be a joke.

[MIKEY_HORROR]

Joke or not, his CD will probably be better then fifty cents latest effort.

[chronomic]

I hope it's a joke, but man, I don't think it is...

the thing that made me think otherwise is that pic of him with "BYE! GOOD" on his knuckles. Only someone crazy would make a mistake like that and not notice it.

[drudo182]

i hope this post is a joke.

You're a joke.

[IAPAI]

I knew it!

from Entertainment Weekly:
Following his widely panned three-song debut as a rapper at a Las Vegas nightclub on Jan. 16, two competing theories emerged: Either Phoenix is perpetrating an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style hoax (with an assist from his friend and brother-in-law Casey Affleck, who's ostensibly shooting a documentary about his career transition), or he's truly lost his marbles. The truth, it seems, is closer to the former. "He said, 'It's a put-on. I'm going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it,'" says one source who recently worked with Phoenix.
Whatever his motivation or ultimate endgame, don't expect him to break character anytime soon. "It's an art project for him," says a source. "He's going full out. He probably has told his reps that he's quit acting. Joaquin is very smart. This is very conscious. He has a huge degree of control."

so awesome.

[Ailite]

Hahahaha, fucking amazing. Guy is a grade a genius/badass, I can't wait to see it play out

[JustSway]

I so fucking called this.

[mht]

i called this fuck you

[JustSway]

Well I must have missed your post, my bad! haha

[drudo182]

Joaquin called it first.

[dissident]

i definitely did NOT call this, but if it's already out is the documentary essentially fucked at this point?

[drudo182]

Nah, I wouldn't think so.

[JustSway]

I doubt a lot of people would believe it/pay that much attention. Weirder things have happened. I know someone who thinks Heath Legder faked his death and is hiding away somewhere, so on the crazy scale its not that far out there.

[drudo182]

LOL.

I keep reading that it's a hoax poking fun at actors who take themselves too seriously. Can't wait to see this either way.

[drudo182]

Did you guys see him on Letterman last night? It was classic.

Here it is if you missed it.

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[TheBestBet]

I was just going to post the Letterman interview. There is no way this whole thing is legit.

[WordzandDreamz]

dave was fucking pissed.

[drudo182]

I laughed when he stuck the gum under the table. Then he started pulling at it again and I was hoping he would stick it in his mouth again. Or when they are setting up the clip and Paul starts to laugh.

Found this too.

"Ok, so now that it's aired, let me say that to me as an audience member, it was clear to me that it was an act. During commercial breaks he and Dave would laugh and talk cordially, and when it was over he took his glasses off, turned and waved at the audience and chuckled and had a MUCH different demeanor. It was to say "this was a joke guys! Thanks for playing along."

[poppa Q]

"Ok, so now that it's aired, let me say that to me as an audience member, it was clear to me that it was an act. During commercial breaks he and Dave would laugh and talk cordially, and when it was over he took his glasses off, turned and waved at the audience and chuckled and had a MUCH different demeanor. It was to say "this was a joke guys! Thanks for playing along."

So lame!

[zubinmoosa]

If this is actually a hoax, I'm so stoked for the documentary. It'll definitely be really interesting.

[Rawrr]

I stayed up late just to watch this, so good.

I thought it was way obvious that this "rap career" was a joke, but like, a lot of people are buying it I guess.

[Ailite]

Hahaha, fucking fantastic. Joaquin is a genius.

[RiCCioLi]

i thought it was real. a hoax 100% SURE? if so the sucks and i dont like him as much, well i do, but it would have been cooler if he really was s huge dick

[drudo182]

I kind of wish this was all real too (assuming it's not).

[samsara]

oh wow this makes me laugh but he always seems out of it.

[theMATEOlife]

if it's a character he's supposed to be playing, it's not being done that well. he's just acting like an aloof asshole, which is easy enough to do as an actor making mediocre movies. hopefully it gets funnier, because if not, this is a major waste of time.

[Bloodsucker II]

since that letterman thing got removed from youtube...........

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=12009076

[acfrue]

This thread should be called "Joaquin Phoenix: A Motherfucking Crazy Genius Thread".

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

HAHAHAHAHA awesome. This is definitely a joke.

Edit: I found another video of the entire interview on YouTube since the other YouTube clip is down.

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[CTMarshall]

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Joaquin-Phoenix-s-Rap-Career-Is-Not-A-Hoax-11965.html

I've sat in a room with Joaquin Phoenix, smelled his cigarette smoke and seen through the dark shades to the once-familiar eyes underneath. And no, I still have no idea what the hell is going on with him. But, and I swear I'm not just saying this because I might wind up in his documentary, I'm convinced he's not a hoax.

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

Bah, I still don't believe it.

[theguilt engine]

haha i love it

[live.]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug?

CS reference!!!!

[Hojonny]

that was awesome!

[ZeitGeist]

Amazing, he's definitely fooled me too, I have no idea what is going on with this dude.

[popdisaster00]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/06/casey-afflecks-mockumentary-starring-joaquin-phoenix-finished-shown-to-buyers/

Over a year ago, Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting, grew a magnificent beard, started rapping, and fell off a stage. In his few public appearances (including one on Letterman) Phoenix insisted that the move from actor to MC was a legit, honest career change.

But no one really believed it, and soon it was apparent that he was the subject of some odd film being made by his brother-in-law, Casey Affleck. Now the film is finished, or at least in presentable form, and has been screened for buyers.