Today I am on a Joss Whedon Fanboy kick. I just think the guy is awesome. And he just doesn’t come up with all of his stuff finely crafted over hours of writing. He truly is a funny guy who thinks quick on his feet and scores.
This interview at Gawker.com had me in stitches:
Q. Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris in an Internet musical in which the lovable loser baddy is kind of the good guy, and the good guy is kind of a dick—and it’s a musical?! Um, how? Wha? How on earth did this develop?
A. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. But I know that people who grow up identifying with outsiders are the people I are. Plus singing is the universal language, along with being on fire.
Q. Is there some reason that we can have a woman or a girl be the main action hero on TV but not in movies?
A. Movies are from the Devil. Also, it’s only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There’s plenty of cool comics with female characters… But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
Q. No matter where in the world you live nowadays, the monkeys—especially the terrible, terrible spider monkeys—are encroaching with hateful motives. What do you intend to do about this?
A. Until you take Monkey into your heart, you will never be allowed into the Jungle of Heaven.
Run over to Gawker.com to read the whole interview.
