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Titolo: JJ Abrams è il nuovo Joss Whedon?

Per me assolutamente no, JJ è un validissimo mestierante, Joss è puro
talento.
http://io9.com/5064267/is-jj-abrams-the-new-joss-whedon
With the year getting ready to draw to a close, one thing has become clear
to anyone who's been paying attention: Despite television rating freefalls
and a movie industry dependent on franchises for success, one man has
managed to sail the choppy waters of genre entertainment with almost no
mis-steps and still find success. Isn't it time that we finally gave JJ
Abrams his long-awaited due?
I know that there's more than a small amount of apathy and hatred towards
Abrams out there - Yes, I'm talking about you, haters - but that shouldn't
stop the triple threat writer/producer/director of Felicity, Alias and
Mission: Impossible III get what's coming to him. In an era where Joss
Whedon is reduced to making ballet and webshorts in order to get fulfill
his muse the way he wants, we've come up with some reasons to consider
Abrams' place as the new Joss.
He Makes The Mainstream Understand.
Yes, he's not necessarily a trailblazer like Whedon - although his projects
tend to do well when it comes to ARGs - but let's face it: His shows are
more popular with both audiences and networks. Not for Abrams are there
multiple pilot episodes due to network concern, or shows cancelled due to
low ratings. What's more impressive is that this success has come without
truly sacrificing the integrity of his work - Fringe may be somewhat insane
(and inane), but it's very much true to its own weirdness; the same can
definitely be said of the Abrams-produced Lost. Through aiming lower than
Whedon, perhaps, he nonetheless manages to introduce mainstream America to
some wonderfully unusual ideas.
He Made Simon Pegg Cry With Star Trek.
No, really. Abrams explains:
    I showed Simon Pegg [footage] when we were at Comic-Con. I showed him
this little trailer thing and it was my favorite thing ever. He literally
started weeping. It was ridiculous. He was sitting there, I mean he must
have been plastered. Because he was looking at my iPhone [crying].
Maybe it's because I find it easy to forget Run, Fatboy, Run, but I tend to
consider Pegg someone with reasonably good taste; if he started crying when
he saw footage of a movie that he'd worked on himself, that's got to be a
very good sign for one of the most anticipated movies of 2009.
(Or, admittedly, a truly, truly bad one. But somehow I don't think it was
meant like that.)
He Plays Well With Others.
Whether it's Cloverfield's team of Drew Goddard and Matt Reeves, Lost's
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (or the impressive writers' room for the
show) or his Fringe collaborators Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff
Pinker, Abrams has a proven legacy of putting aside his ego and assembling
strong teams of creators able to carry out his creative vision - or improve
on it, as needs be (Hi, Lost writers!).
Who Else Has Had A Better 2008?
Put any anticipation of Star Trek out of your mind - or, for that matter,
worry about the moved release date for the movie from this Christmas to
next summer - and look at the trinity of 2008 releases bearing Abrams'
stamp: Cloverfield, Lost and Fringe. Who else has had as strong a year in
terms of quantity, success and quality?
The role of being the largest mover and shaker isn't a lifetime position,
of course; Joss Whedon's length as fanboy figurehead has probably been
lengthier than many would've expected, perhaps because of the lack of
appropriate replacement. Abrams may not deserve the role past the release
of next year's Gene Rodenberry lovefest, but between now and then? We
should all just finally embrace the truth, and throw away our shame: JJ
Abrams Is Our Master Now.
-- 
Jolan Tru
Filippo "Hytok" Simone
http://perestroika.iobloggo.com/

 Abrams' place as the new Joss.
Ma per parlare così, non ci dovrebbe essere almeno una certa differenza di
età e di carriera tra i 2?
Sono praticamente coetanei!
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 Sono praticamente coetanei!
E' vero. Ma tanto è una baggianata. J.J è un simpaticone che ha tante
idee per lanciare tante cose. Ma si sa che dopo 5 secondi si stanca e
non ha mai fatto nulla di *grandissimo* (Lost stesso è diventato
grandissimo quando JJ praticamente se n'è andato). E facciamo finta di
non pensare a Mission Impossible 3. Il suo prossimo Star Trek però
promette molto bene.
Ma tra i due passa la differenza che passa tra un ottimo artigiano e un
ottimo artista.
-- 
Laz

 ottimo artista.
Questa e` davvero un ottima similitudine e perfetta sintesi. Bravo.
(ovviamente la penso allo stesso modo)
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                          Maurizio - Tannoiser - Lemmo
                 Founder Member of ERLUG 
http://erlug.linux.it
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