New Blog from Joss!
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UPDATED: Sunday, December 12, 2004 05:41
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http://www.serenitymovie.com/blog/index.php
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Joss wrote:
Well, sports fans, it's official. The movie is shot. Done. And I couldn't be happier to be through with it. No more of that exciting, vibrant set, that warm camaraderie, that creative stimulus, free donuts... Excuse me. I have something in my eye... free donuts...
Oh, there's things I'll miss. But there's definitely things I WON'T miss.
In no particular order:
1) Fillion. People who are prettier than me are not supposed to be funnier than me. I think it's a guild thing. And that whole 'gracious and professional' thing got old on day ONE, you know what I mean?
2) Cinematographer Jack Green. This guy lights stuff ALL THE TIME. Seriously, like eighty-three percent of the shots had light in them. He totally didn't get my "Just Like Radio" concept for the film.
3) The incessant meddling of the studio: where was it? We waited and waited, what, are they all too busy and important to take the time to ruin my little film? This is Hollywood, people. Learn our ways and customs while you're here. Sheesh.
Just a taste of the Hell I've been through. And being surrounded by beautiful women, and, let's face it, beautiful men, all of whom get along, work hard and play their characters with such ease and nuance it's clear they were born for the roles -- who needs that?
But no matter how much I suffer for my art, it's worth it. 'Cause come April 22nd I think we'll be bringing you an exciting film that's a powerful statement about the right to be free. Which is not as cool as my original statement about the right to tasty garlic mussels in a cilantro broth, but the freedom thing's okay too. The editing started this week, and after just a first cut I can safely say this will be the greatest film since whatever film comes out right before it. And I'm not backing down from that.
Thanks for your support. And I mean that more literally than people usually do -- Coming back from the Chicago Con and telling people there was a Serenity booth put up and run entirely by fans... you should have seen their faces. Hell, you should have seen mine. But not too close. And not before, like, 10:00 -- maybe 11:00 a.m. And maybe sort of from the side. The back-ish part of the side. You should have seen my hair.
Be well. Good things are coming.
Cilantro!
-joss.
Not a whole lot to go on, but great to hear from the man himself.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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VERY COOL....I MEAN SHINY!
"Hamsters is nice."
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You can just tell from what Joss writes, and the things that Nathan, Jewel & Adam said at the Con, that these people are very close. It is almost sad to know that they are done and gone their separate ways again, at least for the time being.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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Cilantro? Say WHAT?
Hey, given the milieu and all, shouldn't that be CHINESE PARSLEY? Good Grief, man!
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...they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their
clothing - and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
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I've got the warm-fuzzies now! 
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Excuse me. I have something in my eye.
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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."
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this is sooooo shiny!!! thank you for sharing!!
cut??!! i hope they don't leave much on the floor. i want to see every shiny frame!! over and over and over again!!
"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."
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It's official. Joss Whedon retains his ability to make me laugh really loud with his posts.
Anyone got a time machine, that maybe we could use to fast forward time some? Like, to, I dunno, April or so?
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The "cut" means the first version of putting the pieces of the film together. Most movies are shot out of sequence, using multiple versions ("takes") of the same scenes, and usually shooting them from a number of angles, distances, etc. In the editing process, the editor and the director choose from among this mass of footage which takes to include in the finished film and how they are to be put together. For instance, a conversation between Mal and Jayne will probably have been filmed with the camera solely on each of them, and then again with the camera on both of them. Then as the film is cut together, decisions are made on when to use the footage of Mal, when of Jayne, and when of both in the same frame.
So "cut" as Joss is using it doesn't mean that some precious event or scene in the film will be left out, although no film uses all the scenes it shoots either. This process will have happened for the tv episodes too, which is why there are deleted scenes on the DVD.
Cardie
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