Equality Now: 20th Anniversary Event (starring Eliza Dushku amongst others and new Joss Whedon material). The programme, which lists all the sketches etc, can be found at the source (x)
“If you think topping a box office record compares with someone telling you your work helped them through a rough time, you’re probably new here.”
(Source: whedonesque.com)
The Coach
Do you ever delve into the voluminous fan fiction around “Buffy”?
I have delved into it. There’s a bunch. There isn’t a better barometer of the kind of success that I crave, which is that people haven’t only enjoyed the work; they’ve internalized it. I don’t, obviously, spend all my days reading it because that would make me creepy, but it’s a huge, huge thing for me that people have taken it into their lives.
(Source: forbes.com)
Wired: Fundamentally, aren’t movies just putting people up on a screen for other people to watch? There’s objectification built into the model.
Whedon: Objectification and identification are at war but they’re at war in the way that people are, that narrative is, that creates art and humanity and life. Like they have to be at war. You have to root for the girl and the monster. It’s something nobody wants to admit. Nobody ever wants to admit that there are two sides to anything. They either want to be right or — no, they just want to be right. Sorry, I don’t know of that many people that want to be wrong. But the truth almost always lies somewhere in the middle.
(Source: Wired)
Joss Whedon, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
