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AN EVENING WITH
JOSS WHEDON
I N A S E R I E S O F F R E E , C O L L E C T A B L E P D F S F O R P O P C U L T U R N E R D S W O R L D W I D E
The Joss Whedon talk at Wesleyan wasan interesting 2 hour experience.
About an hour and teen minutes o talk and 45minutes o
Inside the Actors’ Studio
type ques-tions rom the crowd, mostly quirky and interest-ing some breathless and meandering. First timein the lm studies building/cinema. A modernand sleek oasis hiding in the shadows o therough and tumble Rte. 66.There was a queue o about 130 anxious anslined up when I arrived, and another 200 re-served seats inside. Some playing Warlords ontheir iBooks, others tweeting their riends at theseminar dinner looking or extra reserved seats,the ellow in ront o me reading Steven Hellers’Cover to Cover column in
The New York Times
,a guy with black denim shorts, black t-shirt anda salt and pepper ponytail sitting on the groundeating a sandwich. A motley snake o happyans. As Joss walked into the center somebodyeverishly yelled his name and he waved andthen the girl behind me waved to him/squealedand talked or the next 5 minutes about theirmoment. Luckily everybody got into the audito-rium.I thought that it might be dry that he was not go-ing to have any slides or clips - but he was anenthralling speaker, even to someone only hav-ing a cursory awareness o his canon.He made a joke about hoping he was not goingto have to expound about secular humanism.Relying just on the personal drive results in some-thing obtuse that you need to extract the strangeout o and meld with something marketable.He acknowledged that he is as interested withthe business/marketing side o things as the purenarrative/personal side. He needs to have a title,trailer and one sheet in his head beore he canwrite. Acknowledged a debt to Anne Rice, hav-ing read
Interview with a Vampire
when he was15; but he said that he hasn’t kept up with hersince then. “Interview was the last o the greatpuy shirt vampire stories,” he said.Relating how the revenue structure o Hollywoodwas rapidly changing he said that the executivesasked him i he had thought about DVD extraseven beore Firefy ever started lming. That seg-ued into a recollection o his musical commen-tary or
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
. Not surei the
Stepbrothers
crew o John C. Reilly andAdam McKay borrowed that idea rom him ortheir musical commentary.
Advice to writers ...speed the plow
Finish it. Writing “The End” changes thingsand makes the work outside o yoursel, some-thing you can revisit but is separate. He saidhe has a lot o riends who write and rewritethe same thing in their head or 3 years withoutever moving on ... that hal the battle is justplowing through it.
Whedon on Abrams
Said that he admired the crat and look o the
AN EVENING WITH
JOSS WHEDON
Bret Kerr is a parent o a 2 year old daughter & graphic designer living in Connecticut.
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