{"id":157,"date":"2015-06-14T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-06-14T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T19:42:27","slug":"final-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/final-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main issues Joss Whedon has encountered in his career is the level of control he has over his projects.\u00a0 My paper will explore the conflicts between Whedon and various other contributors to the films and television series he has worked on, including directors, studios, and television channels, and how they affected both the finished product and Whedon\u2019s perception of it.\u00a0 One of the earliest examples of such a conflict in Whedon\u2019s career was with the movie of <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0Whedon was unhappy over several issues, most famously actor Donald Sutherland\u2019s rewriting of his lines.\u00a0 Similarly, Whedon was unsatisfied with the film <em>Alien: Resurrection<\/em>, for which he wrote the script but had to rewrite it five times based on 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century Fox\u2019s demands.\u00a0 He also felt that the movie was terribly miscast and that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet changed the intended delivery of many of the lines.<\/p>\n<p>Later in his career, Whedon was involved in two well-known feuds with the Fox television channel over his shows <em>Firefly<\/em> and <em>Dollhouse<\/em>.\u00a0 Both shows were cancelled after relatively short runs.\u00a0 They both had low ratings, but this was partially due to being shown on Friday nights, a decision which was made because of Fox\u2019s discomfort with the subject matter of both shows.\u00a0 More recently, Whedon had to fight with Marvel Studios over <em>Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em> in order to keep scenes like the farmhouse and the dream sequences in the film, and he ended up having to compromise with the studio by putting in other scenes that he felt did not fit into the film.\u00a0 Whedon is not the only screenwriter or director to fight with a studio or another artist, and I might discuss some other notable examples not involving Whedon.\u00a0 I am still working on finding sources to use as references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main issues Joss Whedon has encountered in his career is the level of control he has over his projects.\u00a0 My paper will explore the conflicts between Whedon and various other contributors to the films and television series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/final-paper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klcameron.com\/whedon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}