May 25 2005
The final part of DarkWorlds' Joss Whedon interview.
"Shaun of The Dead. That's the kind of movie that makes me want to make movies". Right on.
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[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2005-05-25 14:41 ]
Numfar PTB | May 25, 07:26 CET
NickSeng | May 25, 07:30 CET
I for one am very pleased that Joss is able to take his time over the Wonder Woman script.
Oh, and Shaun of The Dead - great film!
bubblecat | May 25, 07:32 CET
Simon | May 25, 07:37 CET
[ edited by bobtaylor on 2005-05-25 14:54 ]
rbt | May 25, 07:38 CET
... I think.
rbt | May 25, 07:39 CET
Anyone with greater knowledge care to go into more detail?
bubblecat | May 25, 07:40 CET
Simon | May 25, 07:40 CET
...
That made sense. Who said it didn't?
Good to see the top man has taste.
SlackJawedVampireHunter | May 25, 07:53 CET
pjalne | May 25, 07:55 CET
Paul_Rocks | May 25, 07:57 CET
FalenAnjl | May 25, 07:59 CET
This is probably not the kind of thread he feels like jumping into, but it would be fun to get a wacky Joss comment on this big (three part) interview. Something about how he was plied with beer, and really thinks just the opposite of everything he said (except about how difficult MB is to work with). Except Joss-like and wackier.
RBB | May 25, 09:53 CET
Oh, and my day does not include being locked in a small room with Morena......somehow....doesn't happen to me....
EdDantes | May 25, 10:08 CET
That just seems like such a flip-off to say that blatantly in a widely circulated interview... (To be fair, clearly I don't know Morena. But ouch, if I were her, I'd be crying right now.) Someone explain?
Daromaius | May 25, 12:07 CET
FalenAnjl, there's no intro on part 1 specifying the date or no date on the home page of DH. Then again, DH's copyright notice at the bottom of its homepage is still dated 2003. So they are having momentary (!) problems with the time/space continuum.
Drifter | May 25, 12:09 CET
I'm sure Douglas Adams has coined a word for the tinglingly pleasurable feeling one gets when learning of the hitherto unknown mutual appreciation of two artists that one holds in equally high esteem. Must reread the Meaning of Liff.
Daromaius: Joss has enjoyed a running joke for some time now about Morena being "plain," "stupid," "difficult," etc. Can't recall when it started, although I think at Comic-Con 2004 comments were made. It's all in good fun, and, I think, underscores the cast's togetherness. Of course, as your post suggests, such statements can always be misconstrued . . .
SoddingNancyTribe | May 25, 12:09 CET
killinj | May 25, 12:10 CET
So now I too must watch Shaun of the Dead.
("Welcome to the Hellmouth" is on FX right now. They all have hilarious hair :) )
WhoIsOmega? | May 25, 12:18 CET
barest_smidgen | May 25, 12:23 CET
Lioness | May 25, 12:44 CET
And yeah, the Morena comment was so clearly a joke. Right before Joss hung up, I could hear her voice, so I figured he started word-hating her as soon as they saw each other. I guess I should've indicated all that with *laughter* tags.
Thanks, once again. I think you guys are my real friends. Is that weird?
Cheers.
TheZeppo | May 25, 12:59 CET
And for an example of Joss-speak check out his post about, I believe, Comicon where he tells Nathan to take a shower sometimes...
Edited because spelling the same word wrong twice in the same post is just.... wrong.
[ edited by zz9 on 2005-05-25 21:01 ]
zz9 | May 25, 13:05 CET
orphea | May 25, 13:14 CET
Re: MB -- Um. Can I be as homely as she is when I grow up? Please?
(Added: I loved SotD, too -- the fact that JW dug it so much makes me think, "Wouldn't it be great if Joss made a theatrical horror movie of his own one day?"
Also, what is 'Spaced' and is it available in R1? Anyone? My curiosity is piqued.)
[ edited by Wiseblood on 2005-05-25 20:37 ]
Wiseblood | May 25, 13:31 CET
Yeah, it didn't seem two episodes went by without a Buffy reference. Best of the bunch was probably the opening where everyone in the house are abruptly awakened by a loud noise and all sit up in bed yelling stuff like "Mommy" or "They're here!", while Simon Pegg's character disparingly shouts "Buffy!".
[ edited by pjalne on 2005-05-25 20:34 ]
pjalne | May 25, 13:33 CET
And thanks for clearing that up, TheZeppo.
SoddingNancyTribe | May 25, 13:40 CET
miranda | May 25, 13:42 CET
electricspacegirl | May 25, 14:32 CET
I thought he was serious, because I've heard Joss sling a couple of barbs from time to time and it was really blatant and sounded particularly unprovoked, and it would have made sense with Inara's planned "leaving the ship" if there had been creative differences and also? I'm stupid.
Daromaius | May 25, 14:32 CET
Christopher | May 25, 14:51 CET
Great interview, classic Joss.
Mort | May 25, 15:51 CET
Though I'm a 'Dawn of the Dead' fan, I initially didn't bother watching SotD because I'm not much into the slap stick comedies so common these days. However, so many of you recommended it in a post here several months ago, I decided to give it a watch. So glad I did, now that's humor! I laughed myself blue. Needless to say, it's now a favorite watch in my DVD collection. Thanks people :)
Madhatter | May 25, 16:36 CET
That was an excellent interview - I just love reading Joss words. They always leave me feeling emotional. I save all the interviews to hard disk too.
The picture shrine had to come down though - it was putting too much of a strain on the marriage ;)
The Do That Girl | May 25, 16:37 CET
Too much nekkid Joss will do that. I mean, *cough* I imagine...
;)
Wiseblood | May 25, 16:54 CET
WhoIsOmega? | May 25, 17:42 CET
I think my favourite is when we see Tim on his knees and he says something about how he's not really much of a praying kind of guy, but that he really needs this to happen, then crosses himself and leaves his bedroom. The camera turns around to reveal that he's been praying to a Buffy poster. It's in 2x04 I think.
Paul_Rocks | May 25, 17:53 CET
p.s. -- Paul one of my FAVE spaced moments also, the praying to Buff :)
p.p.s. -- here's just one of the many region free or multi region decks available.
[ edited by zeitgeist on 2005-05-26 01:00 ]
zeitgeist | May 25, 17:58 CET
pjalne | May 25, 17:59 CET
zeitgeist | May 25, 18:02 CET
"automatic dialogue replacement also known as ADR, EPS and looping the re-recording of dialogue in a sound studio during post-production. The actor(s) usually perform to playback of edited picture in order to pace the dialogue with the movements on screen. ADR is frequently used to replace poor quality sound in the original track; sometimes ADR is used to change the delivery or inflection of a line. ADR can also be used to insert new lines of dialogue which are conceived during editing, although such lines can only be placed against picture in which the face of the actor speaking is not visible."
From Joseph's Film Glossary
Lunakitty | May 25, 18:15 CET
orphea | May 25, 18:30 CET
[ edited by pjalne on 2005-05-26 01:38 ]
pjalne | May 25, 18:38 CET
Paul_Rocks | May 25, 19:23 CET
orphea, try amazon.uk. Be aware that these are region 2/PAL format DVDs.
Next question is you'll need a region-free DVD player with a PAL-NTSC converter. If you google 'DVD region free player', you'll find several choices of vendors. I recommend the Yamaha S550, it will play any DVD on any TV. Best, the price is around $200.00 US. I've been running one for about ten months and it's a good player.
Madhatter | May 25, 19:48 CET
TheZeppo | May 26, 00:28 CET
orphea | May 26, 01:28 CET
1) Rip the encryption and region crap with Mac the Ripper (there are many windows programs to do this, I just don't know any off the top of my head)
2) Recompressed the resulting VIDEO_TS directory with DVD2OneX (though there is a windows version of this) so that it would fit on a DVD-R
3) Burned the DVD to a DVD-R disc with Roxio Toast
Then, so long as your DVD plays PAL, you're set (or you can watch the discs or VIDEO_TS folder from your computer)
Caleb | May 26, 01:37 CET
TheZeppo | May 26, 01:57 CET
This Joss interview has been great fun to read. My favorite bit is of course Joss saying he may revisit the Buffyverse in the second installment of the interview but this piece was fun too.
Passion | May 26, 06:05 CET
Madhatter | May 26, 10:52 CET