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Movie Reviews of Buffalo '66
Movie Review: An Indie Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
Few films will survive the weight of time and technology... This will certainly be one!!Movie Review: Classic Gallo film
Summary: 5 Stars
Buy this ,im not telling you about it just buy Bufallo 66.Movie Review: My thoughts on Buffalo '66 by Nina Percopo
Summary: 4 Stars
Nina Percopo
Eng, Movie Review
Vincent Gallo Christina Ricci
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Buffalo'66
Criminal find redemption on the road to hell and back. Billy, the main character that has just been released from five-year sentence in jail, slowly opens his heart to a girl he kidnaps. The scene that I believe depicts its slow change in him is the bathtub scene. Billy briskly walks into the hotel's bathroom and slams the door and begins to gee the bath ready.Layla, the kidnapped girl who is beginning to have feelings for Billy, asks t come in the bathroom because she's cold. Billy yells back at her not to come in. The next scene she is in the bathroom with him. Layla then asks to come in with him and he replies, :I'm taking a bath, I don't take baths with other people!" Next, she is in the tub with him, he seems uncomfortable, but he les this happen. One may believe this is the first example of Billy opening his heart to Layla, or anyone for that matter.
Lion Gates Films presents, Buffalo'66 directed by Vincent Gallo himself, who also plays Billy, starring Christina Ricci, as the young tap dancer who's kidnapped by Billy, and his parents played by, Anjelica Huston, and Ben Gazzara, and produced in 1997. Vincent Gallo not only is the main character but also directs and produces the whole movie, and although it is not quite mainstream, it's worth viewing.
This autobiographical account of Billy is his journey after being in jail for five years because of a bet of 10,000 dollars, on a Buffalo Bills, football game. They lost because of a lousy field goal kick. In jail he find out that the field goal was rigged and the player was paid to throw the game. When he leaves jail he decides he's going to kill the player, then kill himself. Layla, played by Ricci, steals Billy's heart, and things take a big turn in his new free life.
One can believe that the way the parents acted their roles was very important to the movie. The film is not long at all and there is a short period of time to figure out why Billy is so violent, vicious, cruel, and hard headed. The view learns why, when we meet his parents. They don't pay any attention to Billy when he arrives with his, "wife", Layla. Another example is when he calls beforehand, they don't even know who he is, their own son. Billy's mother is a fanatic of the Buffalo Bills football team; she missed a very important game in the season. She missed this game because she was giving birth to Billy, and she's watching a recording of that game, she whimpers, " I wish I never had him". This is one of the reason's Billy feels like he has no reason to live anymore, which he even state's in a bathroom scene at a Denny's. Billy's never been told he was loved by someone until Layla says it; this idea is very well portrayed in the movie, and his journey with opening up to love is very touching.
Not only dose his film keep you hooked to the plot, and on the edge of your seat, but also it's a movie that hit's home. The viewer becomes very involved with Billy from the very first scene, you wish to learn everything about him. In the end you feel as if you know him a bit more, and are proud of Layla's courage to stick with her gut feelings about Billy. I very much recommend this film to young adults and older.
Movie Review: Dark, but good.
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a very strange movie which featured Vincent Gallo as Billy Brown. He is released from jail as the movie opens and then we go on a pretty wild ride as he kidnaps a girl who he needs to pose as his wife when he goes to visit his mother before his later plans to find the Buffalo Bills kicker and shoot him. Billy has no direction and he plans to take no responsibility for what happens after this night, until the woman he kidnapped says that she has fallen in love with him. I know what you are thinking, but no, this was not a Disney movie.
In my research on the film, many people seem to focus their reviews on how well Gallo captured the essence of life in Buffalo. I have never been to Buffalo, so I will have to find some other angle.
My story is a strange one. I came by this movie through a conversation that went something like this:
"...What about Mickey Rourke, do you like him?"
"Well, I can't say that I have seen him in much that I remember. I thought he was good in Sin City."
"Wow. Come on, he's great. Ummm...have you ever seen Buffalo '66?"
"No."
"Do it."
And so I did. And as The Bookie, Mickey Rourke has about 60 seconds of on-screen time. And while I agree that he was awesome for that one minute, I will have to find yet another angle.
I guess my focus will be on Vincent Gallo, which is mildly appropriate since he wrote, directed, starred in and composed (at least some of) the music for this movie. I thought he was brilliant in this role as he was held captive inside such a tormented mind. There were some incredibly deeply rooted problems from Billy's past to which were became privy one-by-one. At each confrontation with his parents a short flash-back clip is inserted to show us what happened and essentially how neglected Billy went as a child (I really enjoyed how this was done). He yells at everyone because that is the only way he saw his parents interact, with each other or with him. At the beginning of the movie Billy is a hollow soul full of anger and slowly over the course of the movie the perfect depth is added to his character. And while it doesn't make for the most heart-warming love story, it was somewhat endearing to see that Billy kidnapped the only person who may be crazier than he is.
We are given no indication about who Layla is; she was forcefully removed from her tap dancing class against her will by a man with whom she falls in love over a very short period of time. From what we know all they have is each other, but maybe that is enough for them to be happy.
Buffalo '66 is a movie I recommend, but not to everyone. If you are a student of film, either professionally or recreationally, I believe there was some impressive writing, organization and direction. This is also the type of movie I would recommend to my brother, but add the caveat that perhaps he should watch it one night when his wife has something else to do. There is very little harsh language, but there is a very negative cloud that hangs over this movie making it not attractive the optimists in the audience.
Movie Review: Buffalo 66 is a top pick
Summary: 4 Stars
Vincent Gallo, director of the movie Buffalo 66, claims to have based the movie on parts of his childhood. Gallo, who was kicked out of his house by his father at age 16, even used his childhood home in Buffalo to film most of the scenes in the movie.
Buffalo 66 (R), released in 1998, is an independent film directed by Vincent Gallo who also plays the main character, Billy Brown. The cast also includes Christina Ricci (Layla), Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston who play Billy's parents, as well as Mickey Rourke, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Kevin Corrigan. The movie follows Brown after he is released from prison and goes on a quest to impress his parents.
When Brown is released from prison, his strong need to go to the bathroom brings him to a nearby dance studio where he meets Layla (Ricci). He then proceeds to kidnap her and use her as part of his plan to impress his parents. He instructs Layla to tell his parents that they are happily married and living together which she agrees to do. We then meet Billy's parents who are- surprisingly enough- stranger than Billy himself. As parts of Billy's childhood unfold, we begin to learn why Billy is the way he is. We also learn that the reason he had been locked up was that he placed a bet on a Buffalo Bills game which he lost and was not able to pay off. Furthermore, what begins as make-believe starts to become real. Layla begins to see the kindness in Billy and is very drawn to him, though he seems to show no feelings towards her. The only thing Billy seems to want to do is kill the man who lost the football game that he bet on.
Something I found very interesting about the movie was Billy's parents' reaction when he came home with Layla. Since they had not seen Billy for quite sometime, one would think that they would be happy to see him; however, his parents seem to take much more interest in his "wife." In fact, when Layla asks his parents about Billy, the mother looks at Layla strangely and says, "Billy who?" She even offers her son chocolate donuts, which he rejects reminding his mother that he is allergic to chocolate. The mother seems very puzzled and is quite convinced that Billy ate chocolate all the time as a child. We then are taken back to when Billy is younger and breaks out in hives from eating chocolate. When we are brought back to the present, Billy's mother is still quite convinced that Billy is not allergic to chocolate.
Although the purpose of the movie may be unclear to some, its oddness and uniqueness is quite captivating. The interaction between Gallo as Billy and Ricci as Layla is indescribable, but makes you want to keep watching. I would recommend this movie to anybody over 17 who is looking for something out of the ordinary.