Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Acting for Two]]: In the flashback, the medieval Slayer and her Watcher are played by the same actors as Buffy and Merrick. (There's actually an in-story justification for this: {{spoiler|these two really are Buffy and Merrick, [[Visions of Another Self|in a dream Buffy is having]] about one of her past lives.}})

* [[Dawson Casting]]: 23-year-old (actually 22 at the time of filming) Kristy Swanson playing high school senior Buffy.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:

** Pee Wee is a vampire?

** Be on the lookout for [[Batman Begins|a certain opportunistic Wayne Enterprises employee]] as the [[Big Bad]], as well.

** Isn't that Gordie from ''Ready to Rumble''?

** [[West Side Story|Maria's daughter is a long way from Hell's Kitchen....]]

** And, of course, [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Simone Adamley has "no problem whatsoever" playing the title role]].

** Look close, and you might see [[The Town|Doug McCray]] as an uncredited basketball player.

** Averted in the case of [[Seth Green]]. He appeared in a scene that was left on the cutting room floor. If it had made it into the film, he would have been the only actor to [[What Could Have Been|appear in both the film and the series]].

*** According to [[Word of God]] (possibly) you can still see him in the finished movie. Problem is, he appears on screen for literally two seconds (as one of the gang of vampires fighting with Buffy outside the gym toward the end).

*** And he ''is'' visible on the back cover of the DVD, (and the earlier video tape release) as a vamp wearing glasses.

* [[Moral Dissonance]] / [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Buffy and Pike seem pretty comfortable with remorselessly slaughtering their classmates -- some of whom they know on a first-name basis -- after the classmates are turned into vampires. This is softened somewhat when Buffy admits late in the film that if she had the choice she wouldn't want to kill anyone, even a vampire.

* [[Old Shame]]: This is not something that Joss is proud of.

** There's a reason he stormed off the set and never came back, then made the movie non-canon and his original script canon.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Ben Affleck (in only his second film role) as a particularly squeamish basketball player.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason We Suck Speech]]: Late in the film, Buffy tries to explain to her three friends what is going on. When they don't listen, she reveals [[Defector From Decadence|how disgusted she has become with the pointless, shallow lifestyle they've all been leading]]. Although Buffy implicates herself in the accusation, the other girls just think that she's attacking ''them'' and become angry.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The soundtrack for ''Buffy'' (which, typical of a 1990s Hollywood feature film, is crammed to bursting with a mix of standards and disposable pop hits) contains a great many songs that are decidedly out of place in a horror film, even a spoof one. Good examples are C+C Music Factory's rousing "Keep It Coming", which officially kicks off the film, and a calypso-like cover of "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore", which, as sung by Christina Amphlett of the [[Divinyls]], is reimagined as a feminist anthem, as noted above. At one point, Buffy herself briefly sings a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of "Feelings"!

* [[Throw It In]]: Amilyn's ludicrously protracted and over-the-top death, ad-libbed by Paul Reubens.

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: Averted much of the time, although the first 10 minutes now come off as something of a [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]].

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