new Joss Whedon interview - Empire On-line
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UPDATED: Sunday, October 30, 2005 00:27
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new interview here:
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/interviews_and_events/interview.asp?IID=
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notable paragraph (IMO) is:
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Well, here's the thing. I didn’t grow up loving television. American television to me was always kind of low brow. But then I started working in television and thought "wow, you can really do beautiful stuff here". But now, I've finally made a movie and been treated like a filmmaker, which is very different to being treated like a screenwriter. I've now had the best of both worlds and the fact of the matter is I'm now in love with both. There's just no two ways about it.
I'm desperate to go back to TV but it's really a situation where I have to go back with enough power to… I can't go through another Firefly. Just to love something that much and have it pulled out from under me. I can have a film poorly received but the fact is that it's out there, you did it and you have the sense of accomplishment regardless. With a TV show you create it to go on and when it doesn't it gives you the kind of feeling I am just not capable of living through again.
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Joss's remarks have been kinda all over the place lately.
Quote:Kinda makes me think of a certain event in a certain movie. "This is obscene and bizarre and I don't know where I stand" was a common theme of folks that found they couldn't love the movie. Joss's intentions as an artist and Joss's intentions as the leader of the quasi-political phenomenon called fandom and Joss's urges as a trickster seem to be creating a peculiar interference pattern, with some people receiving the signal loud and clear and others sitting in the trough wondering what happened.
I'm not there to challenge them to a point where they go "This is obscene and bizarre and I don’t' know where I stand". I'm not cool enough to be that guy. I'm the guy who wants them to love the movie they just saw, which is I think what the studio is looking for.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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LOL
I think he was meaning that he was never going to make 'Mulholland Drive'
or other movies that no one can understand no matter how hard they try.
I kinda think that Joss expects us to be able to grasp what happened in 'Serenity'
(and please. no spoilers in this thread...there are spoilers ALL over the board, lets avoid it here if we can)
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Joss Whedon said:
I remember we had a guest director on Firefly and he was telling the characters where they were coming from and I remember telling him, "those are not places on the ship that these characters would be". And I knew that he neither knew nor cared. I need to have everything, the whole tapestry. So the TV show works as a movie and they don't always.
That's what I love about Firefly. The ship fits together, the characters live on the ship --they don't just appear there to do an episode.
I'm curious as to whether this director actually did one of the episodes, or whether Joss said, "get the hell out of here" after that.
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looks like whedon is leaning more towards a sequal film rather than a second season. It's a shame a feature film is really a poor story telling vehicle compared to a tv series. A tv series can really take its time and develop a intricate story.
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A second film wouldn't happen in two seconds but if everything went swimmingly, then yes I think a sequel would be the thing. Some people have asked about a new series but I don't think that's where the thinking would be.
this part just makes me really sad :(
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Originally posted by robotsonic:Quote:
A second film wouldn't happen in two seconds but if everything went swimmingly, then yes I think a sequel would be the thing. Some people have asked about a new series but I don't think that's where the thinking would be.
this part just makes me really sad :(
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Seconded. Maybe his thinking wouldn't be there, but mine would, and is.
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looks like whedon is leaning more towards a sequal film rather than a second season. It's a shame a feature film is really a poor story telling vehicle compared to a tv series. A tv series can really take its time and develop a intricate story.
True, but look at what happened to Buffy after seven seasons.
Sure, having two thousand hours of our BDH is preferable to six or seven, but also think of quality.
Firefly was Joss' most polished, solid and well done series, but that kind of thing can catch up with you in the long run. No one is superhuman. No one can plan out ten seasons of a show, each as good or better than the last.
I'd rather have three fantastic movies than two or three fantastic seasons and a bunch of flaccid, disappointing ones.
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Which would I rather have, three seasons, or three movies?
Three seasons. Hands down, no question whatsoever for me, personally. Three seasons adds up to more total story time than three movies, plus I wouldn't have to wait as long between each story. Plus a bunch of other factors too. But everyone has their own preferences and desires.
No reason to have "Firefly II" run on and on until it just tires out. He could write it with a finite story arc to end after a set number of years, kind of like what JM Strazinski did with Babylon 5 (but Joss probably wouldn't have a critical actor bail out on him at the very end like happened to JMS).
If I were a gambling man, however, sadly I wouldn't put a lot of money on ever seeing a "Firefly II" come back to the small screen. Just my depressing prediction.
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