Source: attackrobotunicorn
My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I’m just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that’s sadly never happened.
My second favorite part of Comic-Con is connecting with people that you just don’t get to see any other place, because most of the people I work with live in Brazil. A lot of Brazilians. There is no hub of the comic book industry anymore. It’s just so scattered because we do everything digitally, so it’s the chance I get to see the people like Jo Chen and Fabio Moon and connect with them while I’m seeing my idols, while I’m hanging with my friends that I came with.
But my absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they’re just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it’s an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect, like ‘Your passion, my passion, equally valid. Let’s party.’ To me, that kind of connection, that’s what I want in my work, that’s what I want in my life. That’s cool.
(via fuckyeahjosswhedon)
Source: joss-a-day
unsurprising, given that one was written by a mormon housewife and the other by an enlightened male feminist…
"Alien Resurrection" Movie - The Unproduced Script
The script : http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/alienresurrection_early.html
Before inspiring legions of fans and winning critical acclaim for his television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse, Joss Whedon worked as a screenwriter and script doctor on a variety of big-screen productions. The projects he worked on in vary from a handful of animated features (Titan AE, Atlantis : The Lost Empire, and notably the first Toy Story film) to action spectacles (Speed, Twister, Waterworld, and the first X-Men movie).
Whedon was involved in each of these films to a different degree, but two original scripts written by him during this early stage of his career are notable for having a very big impact on his later acclaimed works. Interestingly, the fact that both scripts suffered from poor execution made Whedon revisit many of their ideas and themes in his later works : he wanted to see them realized properly. The first of these two scripts is the teen horror-comedy feature Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and released in 1992, later revised by Whedon into his first successful television show. Shortly before working on the show, Whedon completed another script that echoes strongly in his acclaimed television works–the script for Alien Resurrection, the fourth installment in the Alien film franchise. This article examines how the work on this script helped shaping many elements that dominate Whedon’s works to this very day.
Fully Assembled: The Making of The Avengers
“There are probably around 2200 ‘real’ VFX shots in the final picture,” states Janek Sirrs. “But the stereo conversion also meant that we had to pre-render all the traditional optical [digital these days] effects – dissolves, re-times – as well, so they also ended going through the VFX pipeline. Ultimately, it felt like the majority of the movie had some sort of VFX component to it.” The cinematic predecessors featuring Avenger team members Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and Black Widow influenced the look of the epic comic book movie. “It was more important that the characters had some sort of continuity with those seen in the previous movies than the VFX work per se. Marvel has very definite plans for their superheroes, both in their own individual movies, and in the ensemble pieces such asThe Avengers that we need to make sure that we’re supporting. That said it was invaluable being able to use the earlier movies as glorified ‘test material’ for The Avengers, and being able to discuss pros and cons of various techniques with their respective supervisors; this meant we didn’t waste precious time and resources reinventing the wheel, or choosing approaches that ultimately wouldn’t prove fruitful. For myself, my time onIron Man 2 was a great help in understanding stylistically what could be achieved successfully with the Iron Man suit.”
5 Iconic Traits of Fictional Characters (That Are B.S.)
#3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer Wants to Be “Normal”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer revolves around a high school student who discovers she’s actually a superhero destined to protect the earth against demons, ghosts and vampires with swollen eyebrows. And she hates it.
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Why This Is [BS]:
What’s a “normal life” in the Buffy universe? How does she even have a concept of what normal is? Keep in mind, it’s not like the demons only reveal themselves to her because she’s a slayer, and everyone else gets to spend Saturday at the mall. The demons are real for everyone — Sunnydale is a war zone. The only difference is that everyone else is helpless and she isn’t.
