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slaya
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well your question was relevant to Serenity, i highly doubt they will include, X-Men questions etc...
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mljac3
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I knew they wouldn't be putting the whole thing on the DVD but they still had to film it all. Would be interesting to see what exactly they take from each screening to put on the DVD. There's a few little bits from the Melbourne Q&A that I'd like to see put on but don't think will make it. Don't think I'll be on the DVD either as I didn't ask any questions.
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nancys
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but in sydney they had to sign release forms and we didn't. also i didn't see any video cameras down the front ie. filming back at the question askers. do they maybe only need releases if they're using your image, but don't if they're only using your voice and showing joss?? there were some questions and answers at ours that i would so love to have on the dvd, like the dinosaurs and glue, curvy women (but don't forget that naturally thin women are real and beautiful too :)), and the answer about the responsibility to still go into the dark place. have i said anything in this post yet about joss being god?!?!? (you already knew that though)
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| im sure theyd also need ure release for a voice, |
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belle4747
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| Yeah, but they could just show Joss's answers spliced together... or intertitle the questions... you know, fan montage in between etc... |
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nancys
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aha! you're right that'll be exactly what they're going to do (edit it to look like the sydney people asked all the clever melbourne people's questions ONLY KIDDING) but i did really wish The Girl Who Hugged Joss's bit could've made it onto the disc 'coz it was so gorgeous, and i dropped and broke my crappy disposable camera outside trying to take a photo of her because of how awesome and awesomely pretty she looked but i thought they'd put her on the dvd for sure. i loved how when she stood up to ask her question joss said "i'm getting on the ship!!!!" (too gorgeous!!!!!! she must have died!!!!!!!), and how she was so excited when she hugged him she left her parasol behind : ) it would have rocked so much on the dvd (and was so way cooler than the starfury stuff on the empire disc) p.s. just on the topic of joss-hugging did i already say here HOW TALL MUST DAVID/NATHAN/MARC BE IF JOSS IS 6 FOOT OR SOMETHING AND THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO TOWER OVER HIM IN PICS?!?! or did i just imagine that towering bit
also there should be an easter egg (made here) of an animated short about new melbourne and fish : ) or a new melbourne fish screensaver |
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The Girl Who Hugged Joss
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nancys: It's so sweet of you to say that about me. I feel very, very flattered.
Then again, I felt the same when Joss said nice things about me. 
And it would be fabulous if it made it on the disc - my 15 minutes of fame, as it were.
Also, if you want some pictures, I have a couple up on my LJ:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/drakyndra/46787.html |
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nancys
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| HE'S GOT HIS EYES CLOSED WHILE HE'S HUGGING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is so cool!!!!!!!!! i tried to take pics of your question and the hug on my friend's camera but i think all the pics i took on it were blurry 'coz i didn't know how to use it (digital)(unless it was just the pics of joss, something to do with noone can look on the face of god and live or something :)) she is probably going to beat me up next time she sees me. thanks heaps for the link :) |
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belle4747
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Has anyone had a chance to transcribe Audio Part II ?
Don't mean to be pushy, just wondering if I've missed it  |
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No, sorry, I haven't had the chance to 
Been busy with exam revision, but I do have some of it done. I might try and get the rest done soon. Sorry for the wait! |
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belle4747
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No, no. I didn't mean to focus on any one person. My bodgy Sydney trasncript took ages so I know what you mean.  really appreciate the effort though... good luck in exams! |
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TRS-80
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: Second half of audio |
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Ok, this is my attempt at a transcript for the rest, be gentle:
| Quote: | Question: Um, I'm a little bit interested to know what your thoughts are on new Angel comics [something] after series 5, and I want some info on Issue 12 of Astonishing X-Men - I've been waiting, I've been waiting. Issue 11 took a long time to get here and I still haven't got 12.
JOSS: Well it's out, it's out there man, it's been out for a couple of weeks.
Question: Really? My comic book shop's crap.
JOSS: Yeah, I'm thinking.
Question: I'm still interested in Angel though.
JOSS: Yeah, Issue 12 is out, and it's bitchowned(?) It's really fun. Um, stuff happens. To the X-Men. So that's cool. And as far as the Angel comic, you know, I've just been very careful that they don't touch on anything that we might be able to play with, given them some fairly heavy restrictions, but I haven't actually been reading them myself, because I don't have time. So hopefully they haven't stepped on canon but if they do, uh, I'll just gonna contradict them.
Question: Hi, um. The theme with River attacking the Reavers, kinda reminded me a bit about of things you've said about the inspiration for Buffy, the idea of the girl going into the dark alley and the monster moving in, and [something] the monster. And, it seems to be like a theme in a lot of your work, the idea of these things that are in other mediums, like horror movies and stuff like that are in the [neph? frugal] evil, kind of triumphs over. And, I was wondering if you had any comments on that kind of ...
JOSS: I didn't hear the last part, the evil ...
Question: The idea of these things that are in other mediums like in a horror movie, a zombie like flick(?), inexorable or unstoppable sort of thing. But your characters always meet something like that, and manage to react to it kind of a lot more strongly than in a horror movie or something like that. And I was wondering if you had a kind of comment on it.
JOSS: Well, you know, I love horror movies and I watched them religiously growing up, but, contrary to what people think, I don't actually like killing people, so it makes it hard for me. I don't like - you know, if someone runs for their life, or fights back, I'm rooting for them, and at some point you realise "Hey, I'm writing this - they're going to win!" And, the idea of somebody who is seemingly helpless, being stronger than the thing that is attacking them - look, I was a really small guy. I have big brothers who beat me up, I was afraid of my father, I was like-- I have a hundred different reasons why that story interests me. My identification with women, you can trace it to my mother, who was incredibly strong and smart and interesting, you can trace it to a lot of things. I don't understand all of it but I know that that is the thing that moves me the most. And it's something that my weird and unknowable need for has proved to be probably the most important thing I've done. And it's changed the way I think about the world around me, not just the way people think about it through my fiction, the getting of strength for anyone, but particularly for an adolescent girl, who has so much strength taken from her, biologically and more importantly by society, is to me the most beautiful and meaningful thing that I'll ever write about.
*applause*
Question: Just quickly in regards to the viral marketing campaign that you've done, firstly, really appreciated it, it's got a lot of interest online. But we've noticed recently that the journal in which the interviewer (played by yourself) has actually had photos released on the internet. Should we be expecting any more in regards to the viral campaign?
JOSS: Those journal entries came from somebody other than myself. I haven't even seen them, I've saw a reference to them, but I don't know what they say. Because, they are somebody having fun, which is good, except it's not me, which means I'm not having any fun, which is less good. So they're not, you know - what do they say? "I am so sexy, check out the back of my head. The back of my head is awesome."
Question: Unfortunately not. They make reference to treatment for River, they actually use the word addorific(?), which then means, a reference to, what does it actually mean. And, just in regard to the actual video clips that have been released, should we expect them on the DVD or in an official release?
JOSS: I don't think they'll make it onto the DVD. So, I'm hoping again as the movie would be such an enormous success that they'll have a second DVD, that they put 6 months later, a little bit shinier and couple more extras and it's totally cheesy but I'm for it. Then I could do the commentary with the whole cast, which is what I really wanted to do but I could never get them all in one room, we can do that. And we can have the DVD stuff on, well that'll probably be it. But like I said, a shinier package, so look for that, coming in the fall. And as far as, you know, the notepad is concerned, you know, it may be(?) a fire risk if someone doesn't catch it, I didn't do that somebody else did, but I love it. I forget to mention how sexy the back of my head is, you guys, you can't tell, because you're looking at me, but wow it's all happening back here. *laughter* (from audience: Turn around) It would just freak you guys out, I think there's some children here, so I can't do that.
Question: Hi, I know you have a history of wanting more zaftig or curvy women in your 'verse, I know Willow was originally conceived that way, and Kaylee was originally conceived that way. I know we all like attractive people to be in film and television, but there's a lot of different ways to be attractive, and I'm just wondering whether you see that there's any hope to see more zaftig, curvy women in film and televsion in general.
JOSS: There are a few people out there who understand that, you know, there are some fairly chubby girls who are *wicked hot* and that there is nothing wrong with that, but like, it is unbelievable how much resistance those people meet. And, I'm talking about me, I'm talking about some other people too. I literally had executives who, you know, themselves might have fit that description, fighting against it. Like, it is a disease in LA, I've seen girls who were perfectly well proportioned start to lose weight, I've seen it over and over again. They look at themselves on the camera and they think they're fat. It was-- I mean I went to Canada to find somebody who was even remotely, you know, zaftig, and actually, Jewel was just eating a lot because I asked her to, and then of course by the time the movie came around she'd stopped, and she was very nervous when she came back, and she lost all that weight, and I was like "Sweetie, you're Kaylee, there's not a lot I'm gonna do now." But, it's a fight, it's a weird thing that it's a fight, but it is. If I want to have a character like that, I have to have so much power that I can't be shouted down by a network or a studio, because they're gonna shout, I don't know why. I don't know why, I know there are guys out there that are waiting for this, I know there are girls out there that need this, and I know there, you know it's, I mean-- It's ridiculous to me, that this is even remotely a stigma, because it's, you know, so much a part of us. It's like - are these girls who are all made up of elbow, are they hot? Is that a good thing? Are bicycle frames sexy? Did I miss something? It's just, you know, it's just I can't explain it, it's like, a sort of, you know, pure(?) misogyny, and it's just, you know, the homophobia that, just, the most liberal, and decent, right-thinking and artistic people in the world that you're hanging out with suddenly hit you with, and you can't believe just how, stuck in Hollywood culture it is. It's a fight, it's a battle, it's one that I've failed to win, twice now, as you know, not that you were saying I failed, you were very nice, but that's basically the case. So, but, you know, I'm out there, and I know there's other people that are, so you know, just give us time. We'll beat 'em down.
*applause*
Question: Hey Joss. I just wanted to thank you for this intelligent action film. (stuff from joss I can't make out) Secondly, I wanted to ask to what do you credit your story-telling skills and your ability to create compelling characters.
JOSS: Honestly I don't know, but I definitely studied a lot of guys who are better than it than I am, I had great, great teachers, great English teachers, great film teachers, and my mother, who apart from being a great teacher to me was a teacher, as is my step-father. Besides being raised, also by writers, my father and all his friends were writers, and I really have to say more than anything, it's just being in the presence of people who really cared about great stories, and being in the presence of great books with absolutely nothing else to do. And this is something that I think we've lost in our culture a little bit, we've lost the ability to have nothing to do, there's always something, there's always something on 90 million channels, there's always something on playstation, there's video in our cars now, and all that, you know, I was stuck on a farm with a bunch of books, in a way it I think it was the best thing you can do for a kid is leave them alone and make them find their fun, as David Mann(?) said, everyone makes their own fun, if you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun, it's entertainment.
*applause*
Question: Within Buffy and Angel, you deal a lot with redemption etc., but in Serenity and Firefly it's all about having faith and belief. My main question I was always wondering about was whether Mal lost his faith in the battle of Serenity or whether something happened on the way between then and the start of Firefly.
JOSS: Um, you know, he lost it at the battle of Serenity, I mean that was really where he had done something extroadinary, and you know, he still-- he felt betrayed by his generals that they gave in when in fact he was still winning, and had sacrificed not only everything but everyone to just that one act and then it becase completely meaningless, that's when he lost all his faith, in not just God, but absolutely any authority figure, and quite frankly, in himself. Between Firefly and Serenity, we sort of also gave him, you know, a kick in the ass, because we wanted him to-- he sort of-- the family had become so cohesive in Firefly, there was no way we could really start the movie that way. But rather than just say, "Well he's grouchy again," we decided, you know - we? it was totally me. The voices that tell me to kill, and occasionally give me things to write - said, you know, basically, bringing Simon and River on had made things harder on him and his crew, Inara leaving had made him really close down, and then, well, Book leaving. Basically, that he was sort of-- things were getting worse and his response to that was to shut down more and more, and shut out Inara and shut out Book, he was shutting out Simon and River at the beginning of the movie, he was putting River in harm's way, he was doing things he wouldn't normally do because, his response was just, well, "The worse things get, the worse I get," and you know, Zoe is the kinda person who is well balanced enough to say, "That's not how you used to be, and that's not the way you should be", but he, you know, couldn't admit that. And so, we took him to that place, so the beginning of the movie could have somewhere to go, to you know, to get from the dark to the light, which seems to be coming up a lot tonight, possibly because of this fricken light.
[editor's note: see the serenity comics for the details between Firefly and Serenity]
Question: Hi Joss, congratulations on the film, I'm sure we all enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of both Firefly and Serenity, but one of the big problems I have raving about these to my friends is some way of classifying them. As soon as I say anything to do with the words science fiction, their look turns blank, or their eyes glaze over, as they imagine bad Star Trek reruns. What do you yourself classify it as, what genre do you call it?
JOSS: Science fiction action drama comedy horror. *laughter* Oh man, I've got to start again. You know, I would call them action dramas, because people like both of those things, and then they don't notice the other things. Or I call it a scifi western cos, what, it wear it on its sleeve. It's not I'm gonna lie, it's not like Buffy the Vampire Slayer isn't a silly title, I know it's a silly title, it's supposed to be. You know, I want everybody to watch everything that I do and to love everything I do, but at some point you gotta say, "Buddy, if you can't get in, then stay out". Sorry.
Question: As someone with not a lot of elbow, this question is quite long, so bear with me. There's a few people here that know me well - had to write this down because I was going to get stage fright - and they'll attest that in life I like what I refer to as said(?) three pleasures. I've noticed in your work, in Buffy, Angel and in Firefly, that you've not overlooked these said(?) three pleasures also. And they feature quite frequently, one in particular, and that is, the making of, the sharing of, or having and partaking of - food. My question is a) was that a conscious decision b) do you believe in breakfast c) when is your favorite time of the day to indulge in these pleasures?
JOSS: I don't usually talk about food, with such a crowd around. I believe in earning breakfast. *laughter [ed: why?]* My favorite time of day is probably way too late, that's all I would say, about food.
Question: Hi Joss, thankyou for a brilliant movie, or at least I thought so. As well, I wanted to ask, I've seen the series, and seen the movie now, is there any chance whatsover, depsite the fact it's been axed before, of there being any more tv?
JOSS: I have absolutely no idea. Everybody's asking this because I think everybody feels the same way I do about the series, but the fact of the matter is, right now, we have a film, and that film if successful, that would probably the next thing to happen be another film, however, you know, anything is possible. But because anything is possible, I have no idea what's gonna happen. Certainly if somebody said "I'd like to make a series, I'd like to use these characters, and these actors are willing to do it", there's nobody from this universe I wouldn't be interested in working with. But if they said movie I would probably go there first, because they're so big and wide.
Question: Hi Joss, I'm not a number.
JOSS: You're what, you're a free man? *laughs*
Question: I don't mean to offend, but with cheesy comebacks from the dead, and Astonishing X-Men comics, why bring Colossus back after his noble sacrifice?
JOSS: Let me tell you something, ok? I am an artist *laughter*, and this is my heart, I open it to you, and I will tell you, from my heart, that the guys at Marvel said, "Listen, we've got a video game, and Colossus is really big in it, so can you bring him back? And can they wear costumes again?" That's why. Now, we take that, and we say "Ok, well, you know, he ejected himself for something, and he died, and it was in the 90s when I wasn't reading the books, so I really like him, and you know I'm gonna bring Kitty back, and he was he first love, so that'd be pretty cool. And then you think, "Well, you can do this moment, where he comes back, and she sees him and that whole thing", and that moment becomes the reason why you're writing the whole part. And it becomes the best thing about it. And it doesn't matter that Marvel wanted Colossus back for a video game in the same way it doesn't matter that Seth Green decided he wanted off the show rather suddenly, because that's a problem, or something is put in front of you, and the way you deal with it you come up with a great moment for Colossus to be back, or you come up with Tara.
Question: In response to that, thankyou for opening your heart. I've always loved your dialogue, it's very witty and very topical, great to listen to. You've mentioned that you're from several generations of script writers, what's the best advice you've had from the generations that you've used and that you'd want to pass on to budding scriptwriters?
JOSS: Well, you know, my father said to me the same thing his father said to him - "Don't be a writer". And generation after generation keep letting them down. The best advice I got from my father, and you know, he didn't talk much about writing, doesn't talk much about it as a craft, but the one thing he said when he was working on the Golden Girls, which is a show that I actually admire enormously and used as a sort of template for all my shows, believe it or not - Golden Girls, big influence - is that he was talking about, they were trying to break a story, which is writers(?) coming up with a story that hasn't been done 4 billion times, and he just said, if you know, he was talking specifically about sitcoms, but I think it applies to just writing in general, he said, you know, if you have this story, you don't actually need very many jokes, and if you don't have the story, then all the jokes in the world will not save you. And that's something that I've repeated a gazillion times. Because ultimately it always comes back to what do we *need* from this? What do we really *need*? All the bells and whistles and the chases and the funny, and stuff, none of that is going to resonate, none of that is going to matter, people can laugh their asses off, and leave not liking what you've done. I've done it, I've seen things that were hilarious, but heartless, and, you know, they left me cold. If you don't have the story, if you don't have the thing that you need to say to people, and they way to say it, then everything else is gonna-- you know, no matter how many jokes, how many zombies you have, it's not going to work, it's not going to mean anything. And that is something I take into every single story-breaking session that I've ever been at.
Question: Hello, thankyou so much for coming and speaking to us tonight--
JOSS: I'm speaking? I'm not just sort of thinking this?
Question: We're heard you loud and clear. Firstly, Illyria is probably the most amazing character change you've ever created, thank you very much, totally jealous of Amy Acker. Secondly, thankyou for that, and I very very much hope there are sequels and on that, if you are having budget troubles, I'm an actor and I'm happy to work for you for free. I do have a headshot if you want it. And also, on Once More With Feeling, which as someone who loves Sondheim, who loves musicals, who would die to perform in a stage show like one of those, I loved Once More With Feeling, do you think that there is ever a possiblity that within you is a full length musical? Because that it was brilliant.
JOSS: Thankyou very. First of all, *yeah*, it's really just a question of time, there's nothing harder to write than a musical, there's nothing, you know, that takes more out of you, and is, you know, examined more minutely than a song, especially, you know, a series of book songs. So, I am desperate to write a musical, I more than anything in this world want to write a musical, but I have to become so powerful that people think they actually want me to, I talking about those people with money, the ones that don't like the chubby girls. So, it's definitely a dream, right now it's just a dream, but I have found over the course of my career that some of my sillier dreams do tend to come true, so I have some faith in this one, you've just got to give me a few years. And as for Illyria, *yeah*, she's just extraodinary. She came out of the Shakespeare readings we did, just because I knew how regal and cold and fascinating Amy Acker could be, and I wanted everybody else to know it too, so I took her out to coffee with and said "I've had a brilliant idea - I'm gonna to kill you", and then I paused, cos she's "That's funny", and then I said "Then I'm going to bring you back as a completely different character that's horrible(?)" and I told all her about Illyria and she was like "I think I was ... less scared you were going to kill me". But the time we spent creating that character, the-- she and Alexis came to-- over the house, and I made them dinner, and we read some scenes I'd written and just sort of workshopped and sort of worked on the character movement, and all that stuff. Some of the best times I've ever had working with those two, they are two consummate performers and the stuff they did together in Angel is some of the stuff that I'm proudest of. So, thanks.
Question: Hello, what I wanted to know was, what's the most difficult story that you've ever had to tell.
JOSS: You just watched it. It's absolutely the hardest thing, because of the whole thing of trying to make it a-- for people who've never seen the show before, and having created the show, however much I tried to put myself in their heads, I really couldn't, so this was just a high-wire act for all the months of writing, all the months of editing. It was, I don't want to say a nightmare, but when I say labor of love, think birth.
Um, I'm gonna do about 3 more, and then I should fall asleep about halfway thought signing things.
Question: Hi.
JOSS: Ok, good start. We're getting a rapport.
Question: How long do you think you'll be writing Astonishing X-Men, and who's your favorite character in X-Men?
JOSS: Dude. Is there anybody here who doesn't know who my favorite character in the Astonishing X-Men is? *murmur* A little bit louder please. *louder murmur*. Thankyou. Yes, it's Kitty. And John and I are taking a break while John is finishing some other stuff. That's actually what caused House of M, because we needed a few months off, but then we got a couple months behind, and they just started House of M right away so it got very confusing. But anyway, we're coming back at the beginning of next year with another 12, and that will be-- we will then finish our run with Giant Astonishing X-Men Giant-sized Annual number 1. And so it will be a total of ultimately 25 issues. And then that will end our run and then we will get sleepy. And so that's it, that's all there will ever be.
Question: Joss, hi. G'day, actually is what we say.
JOSS: You really do?
Question: Oh, absolutely, and it's G'day, not Gu'day.
JOSS: Ok. Goo'dy.
Question: G'day. I'm here by default as a designated driver for my teenage son, and I'm somewhat, apart from the fact that I do feel slightly alone, I'm-- first of all I'm impressed that someone of schedule and pressues of time, takes the time out to do a function like this, which ultimately is a very small group in marketing terms and I think it's a great statement that you're prepared to give up your time to do it.
*cheers and applause*
JOSS: I've talked to a lot of press in the 28 minutes that I've been in Australia, but it's never like doing this, this is way more fun, and the questions are always just a little bit more odd - don't tell the rest of them.
Question: Well, unfortunately I only understand about 20% of the questions and the topics being discussed, um but--
JOSS: Me too.
Question: I had picked that up. I'm curious to know, though, looking around, you've managed to target an incredibly tightly focused demographic. Is that deliberate, in other words, have you set out to talk to this age group, which is notoriously difficult demographic to get to, and if so have you tried to talking to Coca-Cola and a few other companies that would be interested in your services.
*crowd disagrees*
Well, sorry, the demographic that I'm seeing is basically from 15-17 up to 25-30.
*crowd disagrees more*
Ok, maybe I'll withdraw the question.
JOSS: According to marketing I am supposed to be targeting those people, but I'm always targeting everybody, you know. When I had, at a con, like a 68 year old guy come up to me and go "F-ing hell(?), when Buffy's going through it, I'm going 'I'm going through it!'" *laughter* That is the whole point. I think, you know, beyond the things we talked about, the idea of communicating what these people are going-- what any one person is going through to somebody who is in a completely different, let's say demographic, but a competely different situation, that's the whole point of all of my work, is for people to understand each other, for people who don't necessarily like-- in terms of who I'm reaching out to, for people who don't necessarily like science fiction, for people who consider themselves too old for it, or never watched it, for them to watch it and still really care about the characters and have a good time, but on a broader scale it's for somebody to look at somebody they have nothing in common with and go "I have something in common with them. I understand what they're going through." So I'm not targeting anybody, except people.
Question: Hi, Joss.
JOSS: This, I believe actually will be our final question. This is where I will all the money. *laughter* Or fail.
Question: I think you're probably the best person I can think to ask this question - how do you sell a weird concept for a tv series to big networks in the US?
JOSS: Um, well first you find one that's young and desparate, like I did, and then you take two different shows, and you say "Well, it's this show meets that show." Believe me, I'm not kidding. When I said Buffy was "It's My So Called Life meets The X-Files", the WB said "Oh, OK". It's a time-honoured tradition, and it works like gangbusters. Finding a desperate network that will actually do something interesting and different is a little harder now than it was then, which is why I'm making movies. So, uh, that advice will only take you so far, but it's the best that I have.
And now, my right hand wants to thank you all, because my left hand wants to curse you all because it's about to spend a lot of time writing its name over and over. Thank you guys so much.
*loud applause*
Announcer: [something about getting things signed, cut off]
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I've removed most of the ums and ahhs, but left in the you knows and poor grammar. I do recommend listening to the session if you have the time (it's an hour long) and reading along with the transcript at the same time, Joss is great to listen too and there's a lot of verbal intonations this transcript doesn't have.
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| THANKYOU SO SO SO SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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nancys
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| i've said this before but i just think it's a shame that joss would say something like "are bicycle frames sexy", it's the same as all this advertising or editorials talking about "real" women or "real" curves by which they mean size 14+, it's lovely to celebrate the beautifulness of bigger women (and i am a bigger women, so yay), but please don't do it by caricaturing or criticising slimmer or slighter women, they are "real" and beautiful too, and just because somone is slim doesn't mean they have an eating disorder, many women are naturally slim and have been called horrible names their whole life, teased at school, called boys, and they don't need a backlash for the sake of their curvier sisters. all shapes and sizes of women are real and beautiful. and hell, same with men : ) |
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White Knight
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I've seen hi-res pics of the notebook that's talked about (from the viral campaign). It's interesting; it seems to talk about River's treatment. There's a few strange terms in there, like 'Addorific' and 'Pax'...
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