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"James Franco has expressed his love for Ryan Gosling in a new piece about the movie The Place Beyond the Pines. Writing in an article for The Huffington Post, Franco explained that he was captivated by the part of the movie that focuses on Gosling&amp;#039;s character Luke.  In the blog, which is titled &amp;#039;Burning for Gosling&amp;#039;, Franco said: &amp;quot;I loved the whole film and was engaged every moment of the way. But what I want to talk about is the first section, the Gosling section; I want to make love to this section.&amp;quot; The Spring Breakers star continued: &amp;quot;The first image we see is Gos&amp;#039;s toned six-pack, framed tight so that his head is cut off in order to focus our attention on the full spread of idiosyncratic tattoos and the impressive opening and closing of a butterfly knife, a skill Gosling mastered - he is the king of eccentric character behaviour - as the character anxiously paces.&amp;quot;   Franco added that Gosling is &amp;quot;a master at evoking character through dress&amp;quot; and suggested that the character of Luke is &amp;quot;already a legend&amp;quot; from the very beginning of the movie. &amp;quot;The rest of his section is more of the same beautiful Gosling brooding and motorcycle riding,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;Look at how he smokes; look at the other t-shirts he wears inside out; look at the holes! Look at how he dances with the little dog; look at the homoerotic relationship with his partner in crime.&amp;quot;  Franco acknowledged that he had some problems with the plot, though he absolved Gosling from blame by suggesting that he &amp;quot;played the role to a T&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;The rest of the film is great, but the following two sections can&amp;#039;t hope to burn with the same intensity of the Gosling section, they&amp;#039;re not designed that way,&amp;quot; Franco added. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not the actors&amp;#039; faults, it&amp;#039;s just that Gosling was cast as the shooting star, and he sucked up all the oxygen. I could watch that first section over and over and over.&amp;quot; Describing Gosling&amp;#039;s character as &amp;quot;a behavioural and sartorial genius&amp;quot;, Franco concluded: &amp;quot;Burn hard baby.&amp;quot; Watch the opening scene of The Place Beyond the Pines below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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