{"id":2660,"date":"2007-08-10T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2007-08-10T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T01:36:00","slug":"2660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/interview\/joss_whedon\">Joss Whedon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So I sat down and I really thought about it, and realized that there is a philosophy behind it, one that I&#8217;ve talked about before, and I won&#8217;t bore you with. It&#8217;s the idea of surprise being the point of storytelling, and the most honest emotion, because it&#8217;s truly humbling. Surprise means you have to reassess what you thought. It means that you were wrong about the way things were structured, and that&#8217;s exciting, and really important. It also makes for a good story. I mean, The Sixth Sense is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it&#8217;s dazzling. When it matters, when it makes a difference, letting a story happen to you, letting a narrative take place instead of just waiting for placeholders is a better experience, and it feeds you. We need narrative, it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you&#8217;ve actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also mentions that &#8220;[s]ome people have told me I should do <i>Buffy<\/i> for the stage, which I get, and it could obviously be very fun&#8230;&#8221; Which is either the goofiest or worst idea I&#8217;ve ever heard, I&#8217;m not sure which.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon: So I sat down and I really thought about it, and realized that there is a philosophy behind it, one that I&#8217;ve talked about before, and I won&#8217;t bore you with. It&#8217;s the idea of surprise being the point of storytelling, and the most honest emotion, because it&#8217;s truly humbling. Surprise means you &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2660\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}