mandag 12. desember 2016

Buffalo 66 (1998)

I will now review one of my all time favorite movies Buffalo 66.
This is also an independent movie by the multi talented Vincent Gallo, which is both the writer and the main actor in this movie. Gallo also made and preformed allot of the music for this movie. Christina Ricci is the other main actor in this movie, and some other actors are Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston.







Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) is just released from a five year sentence in jail, for a crime he did not do. Billy is released by a prison guard, but I quickly comes back and asks to use the bathroom.
But the prison guard will not let him back, because "This is the discharge gate" so Billy needs to get on a bus to town.
When Billy gets to town after a long bus rides, he really needs to use a bathroom, and walks around town to find a place to take a leak. But fails to go anywhere, even in the restaurant he tries he gets thrown right back out.

Billy finally finds a bathroom in a place where some people are learning to tap dance, this is where we first see Christina Ricci (Layla). In the bathroom Billy is going to take a piss, but in the urinal next to him is a man eyeballing at Billy`s penis. Billy gets angry and tells the gay man to "Keep your fucking face out of my pants". When the man gives him a remark that he is "Just so big" Billy loses it and chucks the faggot out.
This is when he first talks to Layla, who he wants to borrow a coin for the phone from. Being very rude Billy gets a coin and gets to call to his parents.
Talking to his mother it seems that his mother don`t really remember him.
Billy tells that "We are staying in town." Meaning him and his "wife" which he do not have.

After a funny argument between Billy and his mother Jan Brown (Anjelica Huston) he agrees that him and his "wife" will come to dinner. Billy kidnaps Layla and they go to her car, and Billy forces Layla to act like his wife and make him look good at the dinner with his parents. Layla allows Billy to kidnap her and she quickly seems to get an at romantacly attractment to Billy.

The subplot of the movie is Billy searching revenge on a Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Wood for losing the Super bowl XXV against the New York Giants in 1991, making him lose allot of money, and got him to prison.

For me this is a really funny mostly because of the character Billy. He is a bitter and depressed person, and his arguments with his parents and lashing out at Layla and his friend Goon is really funny. Billy is basically being an ass hole to everyone he meets.
Billy`s family is also funny. And the dinner scene is so good.
The soundtrack of the music is also really good, much of the song are written and performed by Vincent Gallo, amongst others Lonely Boy, Drowning In Brown and With Smiles & Smiles & Smiles. There is also some music bye Yes, Heart Of Sunrise and Sweetness.
And there is also a song of Frank Sinatra it is performed by Gallo`s father Vincent Gallo. Sr Fools Rush In.

I give this movie a 10 out of 10

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