![]() There are plenty of reasons why he deserves this vitriol, and I’ll touch upon some of those reasons a little later. He is, as we all know and have pretty much accepted by now, an abusive and self-centered f-ckboy who made life hell for many of the people who worked with and for him, and he also has a tendency to stick both feet in his mouth whenever he’s interviewed. As Buffy’s designated Watcher, he informs her that the entire town of Sunnydale rests on the very mouth of Hell itself, and it is up to Buffy to accept her responsibility as a Vampire Slayer to battle the vampires, demons, and many other things that go bump in the night who want nothing more than to kill the Slayer and make all of Sunnydale (and the world, if possible) into a literal hell on Earth.īefore I go any further, I of course have to talk about the problematic elephant in the room known as Joss Whedon. Buffy just wants to live a normal life as a normal teenage girl, but school librarian Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) can’t and won’t let that happen. The new school she has transferred to is Sunnydale High School, where she immediately crosses paths with Alexander “Xander” Harris (Nicholas Brendon), who is socially awkward and heavily reliant on wisecracks Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan), who is brilliant, but also shy and insecure and Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), the spoiled, popular, and ruthless queen bee who treats the school like her own personal sandbox, and who won’t hesitate to embarrass someone just to make herself and her friends laugh. Sixteen-year-old Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has just moved to the town of Sunnydale, California with her mother, Joyce (Kristine Sutherland), for a fresh start after Buffy’s last encounter with vampires at her previous high school resulted in its entire gymnasium being burned down to the ground, and Buffy being expelled as a result. Oh, and according to Whedon, Donald Sutherland was a huge prick to deal with on set. The film’s screenwriter, Joss Whedon, wasn’t entirely happy with the way the film turned out, particularly since - due to studio interference - the script became too reliant on comedy, the comedy that it relied on wasn’t very funny, and it wasn’t nearly as scary and dramatic as he had wanted it to be. The film didn’t impress critics, and despite being filmed on a $7 million budget, its $16.5 million take at the box office was nothing for the Powers That Be over at Fox to do cartwheels about. It starred Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, the late Rutger Hauer, Hilary Swank, David Arquette, and the late Luke Perry, and told the story of a high-school cheerleader who suddenly discovers that she is destined to slay vampires and other supernatural forces who are present in her small California town. On July 31, 1992, the studio formerly known as 20th Century Fox released a low-budget horror-comedy in theaters called Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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