Anyway, car door beheading (AtW), holy water switcheroo (Helpless), barbed wire (Showtime) would be in my top 3. Then there are my top 3 badass Buffy scenes: the fight in Anne, raining death down on the ubervamps in End of Days and the alley scene in ItW. Oh, and punching a hole right through the demon in Normal Again.
The only one of those I don't love to little bitty pieces is the scene in ITW. I find it uncomfortable and I think I'm supposed to; it's Buffy giving in to her own (justifiable) rage ("the subtext is rapidly becoming text"); in Western movies, shooting an unarmed person in the back is usually the action of the coward or the villain; but it also reminds me of Oz's word "Run" to Tara in New Moon Rising. Who is speaking - Oz warning Tara to get away, or the wolf teasing his prey with a short "head-start" when he knows she can't outrun him? Buffy's headnod has something of that to it.
But your other choices? Oh hell YES. I just rewatched NA btw and yes, that entire scene is awesome - rising up beneath the stairs (RESOLVE FACE!), the oddly graceful windmill action of her left arm as her right hand goes through it's chest (which always reminds me of Primeval and Adam), then that shot of her with her hand covered in goop but she is still so fucking ridiculously elegant somehow. Actually I could do a list of my favorite Buffy hand-shots (NOT including Spike or one of her other lovers, cause that's it's own damn category) but I can only think of a couple: NA, & Primeval (holding her hand up and turning the bullet into doves, and tearing Adam's heart out.) Maybe Bargaining, actually - thrusting her hand up through the soil. And pretty much every single time she runs her fingers through Dawn's hair, for some reason.
This is fun, I'll have to think of some more now! You're ruining me you know.
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Date: 2013-05-03 12:57 am (UTC)*snort* You've read Gabrielleabelle's meta, "Buffy and Carpet Cleaning"? http://gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com/280698.html
Anyway, car door beheading (AtW), holy water switcheroo (Helpless), barbed wire (Showtime) would be in my top 3. Then there are my top 3 badass Buffy scenes: the fight in Anne, raining death down on the ubervamps in End of Days and the alley scene in ItW. Oh, and punching a hole right through the demon in Normal Again.
The only one of those I don't love to little bitty pieces is the scene in ITW. I find it uncomfortable and I think I'm supposed to; it's Buffy giving in to her own (justifiable) rage ("the subtext is rapidly becoming text"); in Western movies, shooting an unarmed person in the back is usually the action of the coward or the villain; but it also reminds me of Oz's word "Run" to Tara in New Moon Rising. Who is speaking - Oz warning Tara to get away, or the wolf teasing his prey with a short "head-start" when he knows she can't outrun him? Buffy's headnod has something of that to it.
But your other choices? Oh hell YES. I just rewatched NA btw and yes, that entire scene is awesome - rising up beneath the stairs (RESOLVE FACE!), the oddly graceful windmill action of her left arm as her right hand goes through it's chest (which always reminds me of Primeval and Adam), then that shot of her with her hand covered in goop but she is still so fucking ridiculously elegant somehow. Actually I could do a list of my favorite Buffy hand-shots (NOT including Spike or one of her other lovers, cause that's it's own damn category) but I can only think of a couple: NA, & Primeval (holding her hand up and turning the bullet into doves, and tearing Adam's heart out.) Maybe Bargaining, actually - thrusting her hand up through the soil. And pretty much every single time she runs her fingers through Dawn's hair, for some reason.
This is fun, I'll have to think of some more now! You're ruining me you know.