Interview with: Joss Whedon

Thank you so much for posting this, WilliamTheBloody. I enjoyed it immensely. Joss has the greatest sense of humor.

O: One aspect of your fans' dedication is that they become very threatened by perceived changes in the show, like Giles becoming a lesser character as Anthony Stewart Head moves back to Britain, or the show itself moving to UPN.

JW: Change is a mandate on the show. And people always complain. [Agitated voice.] "Who is this new guy, Oz?" "Where'd that guy Oz go?" They have trouble with change, but it's about change. It's about growing up. If we didn't change, you would be bored.
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That is so hilarious that he mentions that. Don't worry, Joss, we still love you.

I was just looking around on the site, and there are a couple links to different versions of the interview that have some parts of the interview that were cut. Each interview has some stuff that wasn't in the other interviews: http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3731/avfeature_3731b.html
http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3731/avfeature_3731.html
These are dated September 5, 2001, but they are basically the same interviews.
 
Well, here's my favorite part:

O: The only lines I really remember from that movie are that one and Storm's toad comment.

JW: Okay, which was also mine, and that's the interesting thing. Everybody remembers that as the worst line ever written, but the thing about that is, it was supposed to be delivered as completely offhand. [Adopts casual, bored tone.] "You know what happens when a toad gets hit by lightning?" Then, after he gets electrocuted, "Ahhh, pretty much the same thing that happens to anything else." But Halle Berry said it like she was Desdemona. [Strident, ringing voice.] "The same thing that happens to everything eeelse!" That's the thing that makes you go crazy. At least "You're a dick" got delivered right. The worst thing about these things is that, when the actors say it wrong, it makes the writer look stupid. I listened to half the dialogue in Alien 4, and I'm like, "That's idiotic," because of the way it was said. Nobody ever gets that. They say, "That was a stupid script," which is the worst pain in the world. I have a great long boring story about that, but I can tell you the very short version. In Alien 4, the director [Jean-Pierre Jeunet] changed something so that it didn't make any sense. He wanted someone to go and get a gun and get killed by the alien, so I wrote that in and tried to make it work, but he directed it in a way that it made no sense whatsoever. And I was sitting there in the editing room, trying to come up with looplines to explain what's going on, to make the scene make sense, and I asked the director, "Can you just explain to me why he's doing this? Why is he going for this gun?" And the editor, who was French, turned to me and said, with a little leer on his face, [adopts gravelly, smarmy, French-accented voice] "Because eet's een the screept." And I actually went and dented the bathroom stall with my puddly little fist. I have never been angrier. But it's the classic, "When something goes wrong, you assume the writer's a dork." And that's painful.
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Exactly what's wrong with Hollywood. The writer is the one who brings the life into the story. All these other people with their arrogance...no wonder we get such thespian works as Ecks vs Sever, Pluto Nash and Waterworld.🙄
 
*gets out her pompoms*
go joss
the man has attitude and thats what i like
go joss!


thanks for posting the interview!!
 
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