Everything about Buffalo 66 totally explained
Buffalo ’66 is a 1998
film, and is writer/director
Vincent Gallo's semi-autobiographical full-length
motion picture debut. The retro look,
do it yourself sensibility and the comic mixture of
irony and
sentimentality, as well as the casting and music, have caused the film to be strongly identifiable with late-1990s
hipster culture. Gallo and
Christina Ricci star in the lead roles and the supporting cast includes
Mickey Rourke,
Rosanna Arquette,
Ben Gazzara and
Anjelica Huston. Gallo also composed and performed much of the music for the film.
This film is as much comedy as it's drama; Billy's scornful attitude and his contemptuous memories are often offset by amusing dialogue and ironic black humor.
Buffalo '66 is an
indie film with a dirty, minimalist look; it has a faded and discoloured visual style thanks to the use of rare
35mm reversal film and (for the flashback scenes)
16mm stock. One particular scene features the use of a tableu set to the song "Heart Of The Sunrise" by the band
Yes, where the action stops abruptly and the camera view rotates around the frozen scene, similar to the
bullet time scenes in
The Matrix a year later.
Empire listed it as 36th greatest
independent film ever made
(External Link
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It was filmed in and around
Buffalo, New York.
Plot
Having just served 5 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Billy Brown (Gallo)'s first desperate post-incarceration action is to search for somewhere to relieve himself. Then, to impress his
dunceish, thoroughly neglectful parents, Gallo kidnaps a dance class student called Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife. Layla allows herself to be kidnapped and it's clear she's romantically attracted to Billy from the start, but Billy all the while is compelled to deal with his own demons, his loneliness and his depression, and it's only at the end that he allows Layla to give him the love and comfort he's been needing all his life.
The subplot of Billy seeking revenge on the man indirectly responsible for his imprisonment, Scott Wood, is a reference to a former
Buffalo Bills kicker,
Scott Norwood, who missed the game-winning field goal in
Super Bowl XXV against the
New York Giants in 1991.
Production
Ricci vowed to never work with Gallo again, due to the abuse she suffered on set. She also resented the comments he made about her weight three or four years after filming.
Gallo called Ricci a "puppet" for doing as she was told.
Further Information
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