Buffy the Vampire Scene Description and Argument
It is nighttime and the scene of the front of
Sunnydale High School. Shadowy music
plays while the camera rolls through the hallways of the school and into a
classroom and up to a window. All of a
sudden, the window shatters and a hand reaches in and opens the window from the
outside. A boy and a girl crawl in
through the window while the girl questions if breaking into the school is a
good idea. The boy dressed in a black
leather jacket and jeans assures her that it is. The girl is dressed in a schoolgirls uniform.
The boy leads her into the hallway where she again questions if they should be
there. She nervously stutters and says
that she doesn’t want to get in trouble.
The boy flirtingly tells her that they will. At that moment the boy leans in to kiss
her. There is a sound and the girl jumps
back and says that she saw something. She asks if anybody is there. The boy, in an attempt to further calm her,
walks over to a hallway leading in a different direction and yells
“hello!”. There is no response and the
boy turns around and says, “There’s nobody here.” The girl then wanders into
the shot looking around and again asks if anybody is there. The boy responds yes. The girl finally accepts this. The girl turns around with a disgusting pale
face and sharp fangs and bites the boys neck.
The writers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer are trying to portray that you can't always assume a gender stereotype to be true and to be cautious of a person, guy or girl, until you know more about them.
This opening scene truly addresses the issue that stereotypes can be very misleading. As described above, out of the two characters in the scene, the young man is by far the one that the audience would expect to be a bad character as he is dressed in a typical bad boy outfit of a leather jacket and jeans. The girl is not only dressed innocently in a school girl's outfit, she is the one who seems very scared to be there. This makes anyone believe that she is in no way shape or form a bad character. This is all proven wrong at the end of the scene when she turns into her vampire state and attacks and kills the young man.
ReplyDeletethe open scene of this episode shows how stereotypes can affect the way you look at thing. the boy in this scene is very mysterious and has a lot of confidence in what he's doing where the girl is very shy and nervous with a sweet little girl look and she doesn't want to get into trouble this make the viewer believe that the guy is the bad one. When the girl attacks the boy it makes many question the stereotypes that they believe.
ReplyDeleteThe opening scene does show that stereotypes are not always accurate. Especially in horror films and vampire flicks, the blonde, female tends to be the victim. She is lured to a secluded place and attacked in some way. This episode does begin that way, but it takes a turn that shows the motives of the writers. She ends up the aggressor, and her victim is her seemingly in control, male counterpart.
ReplyDeleteThe teaser for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is used to foreshadow a season of unexpected events and characters, as well as to intrigue the viewers. They do this by baiting you into false assumptions and surprising you at the end. Until the very end they are misleading you by showing a stereotypical looking "bad boy" leading a innocent looking girl into an empty school. They set up the guy as the aggressor early by showing him smash the window and convincing her to follow. She is set up as the victim by being wordy and talking in a timid voice. At the very end you are surprised when the roles are switched and the girl suddenly attacks the guy in her vampire form. This surprise gets the viewers interested and foreshadows thing to come.
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