Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of the short-lived 2002 Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The captain and first mate are veterans of the Unification War, having fought on the losing side. Their lives of petty crime are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbors a dangerous secret.
The film was released in North America on September 30, 2005 by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews and was number two during its opening weekend but it did not make back its budget until its release on DVD. Serenity won numerous awards, including the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
By 2517, the Alliance has won a war with the less established planets of outer star systems. A young girl named River Tam is the most promising of a number of young people being mentally and physically conditioned by Alliance scientists. Rescued by her brother Simon, the two find refuge aboard the Firefly-class transport ship Serenity, captained by Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds. An Alliance agent, the Operative, is tasked with neutralizing River, as she has been visited by high Alliance politicians and may have learned certain top secrets due to her psychic abilities.
Morena Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is a Brazilian and American actress most widely known for roles in several American science fiction television shows: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V. She currently co-stars in the Showtime series Homeland.
Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her mother is Brazilian stage and TV actress Vera Setta, and her father is Fernando Baccarin, a Brazilian journalist of Italian descent.[citation needed] When she was 7, Baccarin moved with her family to Greenwich Village, New York, as her father was transferred to Globo TV's headquarters in the United States, working as editor. Baccarin attended Public School 41 and New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, where she and Claire Danes were classmates. She later attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before she entered the theater program at the Juilliard School, where she was in the Drama Division's Group 29 (1996–2000).
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( /ˈwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002) and Dollhouse (2009–2010), as well as the short film Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008). Whedon co-wrote and produced the horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and wrote and directed the film adaptation of Marvel's The Avengers (2012).
He is also notable for his work in film, comic books, and online media. Many of Whedon's projects enjoy cult status.
Joss Whedon was born in New York City. He has been described as the world's first third-generation TV writer, as he is the son of Tom Whedon, a screenwriter for The Electric Company in the 1970s and The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and the grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s. His mother, Lee Stearns, taught history at Riverdale Country School as Lee Whedon, and was an unpublished novelist. Joss Whedon is the younger brother of Samuel and Matthew Whedon and older brother of writers Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon.
You swing your hips and then you wave me over
Your eyes are so blue
I stroke your lips, you call me casanova
Oh honey you
Star in this film every single night and every single matinee
You should be here to bring it all to life
Oh I'm just a phone call away
We lie and listen to the raindrops falling
That's all we do
But the phone rings, and you laugh because it's your husband calling
Oh darling you
Star in this film every single night and every single matinee
You should be here to bring it all to life
Oh I'm just a phone call away
And then you could be who you want to be
As long as you are near
What are you waiting for?
Everything you need is here
Just come and sleep with me
You must know what I mean
You've seen this film before
This is the final scene
Star in this film every single night and every single matinee
You should be here to bring it all to life
You gonna keep this up
Keep on falling, keep on falling
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
Stop position, opposition ain't no competition
Stop position, opposition ain't no competition
Stop position, opposition ain't no competition
Stop pretending propositions full of contradictions
Ain't no love for you haters from the other side
Call the blind when you see in you're easing up my time
For the way that I do it, all wise no, no mind blowing
Your mind taking a stool
Fine showing that God loaded
You to a highway to new force
Dumb nigger why hate? Cause you say no to learning something
Loaded locks I can't, what you say no to learning something
Loaded locks I can't, what you say no to learning something
Putting you to the back I put a point yellow all through this back
You the killer baby know my case
No feeling put the money in the seif
Came a man honest when we posing
Bitch can't tell my I-Ge
Bullshit on the map like you won't eat
Whatever you do nigger keep rowing
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
Whatever you do you know you gotta keep on film me
Keep on film me, keep on film me
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
What and listen how I'm living in my compositions
Honest missions of beloved straight above the mission
In fact you give it to the bricks that needs a touch
Wait let me get it, put you with my man Lux
Shit they prolly saying in the musty faces
Say shoot that hoe don't trust
And the club hatin we love makin with the shit you prolly won
Fuck nigger why hate? Cause you ain't known to getting money
Caught up in the gang feeling like I joined a gang and did it all for the name
Loyalty's a game but the industry's full of niggers and they all got game
Only for the cameras, only for the cameras
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
Whatever you do you know you gotta keep on film me
Keep on film me, keep on film me
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
Money talk when I walk in
Broke niggers be crying
I don't drink but yeah 100 pink of that ride
Rose is for cry I'm just swinging low with my sway
Hooligans they flexing
Bad ones on my girls bad and my instagram
No taxi, and yea I'm single like a dollar bill
Curved it all and I'm trying to chill
Count a mill, hide the bill and got time to'
Niggers film me cause your girl is real
Bitches film me say your girl is thrill
Cause I'm bout that, I bounce that
This be money that mouse trap
Yeah we in there, riding round in that gatti
No murder ink when I'm killing shit
And I'm finna capture that body
So back back if I bang the boy
Cause I'm in straight for yo Benjamin
This came up with some new money
That shit ain't no coincidence
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
I can't explain, but I'm willing
Caught up in fame what a feeling
All of the lights, we in the building
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
Whatever you do you know you gotta keep on film me
Keep on film me, keep on film me
Them cameras beaned up, babe keep on film me
You know how I show you respect? By showing you nothin
Get ready, count these millions