A Firefly Lecture - The reason I love being an arts student!
POSTED BY: VeraCobb
UPDATED: Monday, August 30, 2004 03:47
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One other thing to mention that was brought up by joss in several interviews----the ad department of fox royally screwed the show in the commercials for it. I can't tell you how many people you meet who say, "Oh yeah,saw the commercials for that --- a girl in a box and a whore in space? who'd write that?" Then they see the show and are all "Wow, that was TV? Felt like a movie".
Think that some of the original commercials are available on the net---remember once upon a time seeing a link for them here on FFF.net somewhere??
Best show for clips? depends on what you want to demonstrate ---- some of the clips from OiS would be great to demonstrate the artsiness of the show etc. Plot/story telling -- I'd show the sequence of Mal opening the box during serenity and then Dobson coming in. Don't need to know the characters well and it is very grabbing.
Serenity did air last after cancellation--think i remember Joss fighting to get it shown despite everything just in case the dvds didn't work out (though he refused to allow the network to air the message and Heart of gold during the summer because he wanted dvds to have new contenet).
Hmm...on the universal delay thing, dunno, you might actually try to communicate w/ mutant enemy or something about that. Know joss wrote one script at the end of the year as a finale sorta, then rewrote it completely after he talked to Universal and was getting positive vibes. Think the negotiations btw universal and fox were lengthy --- read somewhere that the "no tv for 5 yrs" may have actually been a universal demand as they didn't want to see the show return to tv and preclude a successful franchise of their own (since fox still owns tv rights, not out of meanness).
Almost all recent interviews w/ joss bring up alot of these issues --- might even be able to google for them. Knowt there was even one on ign.com that discussed some of this although it was pre-movie deal. Several are posted around the board---haken probably archived them all in the news feature section.
Good luck w/ the lecture....and be sure to hand out flyers for the movie!!!
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