Season 5, Ep 17
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thank you rhi!! โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:22:27 +0000 UTCabsolutely agree!!
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:22:16 +0000 UTCyes!!
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:22:08 +0000 UTCright ๐ญ๐ญ her face
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:21:55 +0000 UTComg i love this thank you for sharing claire!!
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:21:14 +0000 UTComg ๐ญ๐ญ
darciesnothere
2022-12-20 16:20:09 +0000 UTCAmazing, thank you Darcie for sharing your experiences! We love you!
Rhi
2022-12-20 11:30:02 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite scenes in Cabaret is right at the end of the song Tomorrow Belongs to Me, when it becomes blatantly clear that the other characters illusions that they'll either be able to control the rise of Nazism, or fight it, or that it's not that big a threat have just been completely shattered, and the camera pans to Joel Grey's MC at the KitKat Club & he just smiles and nods at the camera, like "you knew what was coming". It's such a brief gesture, but it's so damn chilling and so very well done. To me one of the signs of a great actor isn't the amount of screen time they have, or how much dialogue or monologuing they can do well, it's the small moments and subtle gestures where they can convey an entire script pages worth of meaning in a single look or movement.
Claire Eyles
2022-12-18 16:00:25 +0000 UTCCame here to say some of that, but only some because I didnโt know a chunk of it. So, thanks! Some actors just seem to relax into a role which, for me anyway, sells it better; Grey does that. Itโs a throwaway character, but he makes it far more real than most others would have.
Noah
2022-12-17 20:54:32 +0000 UTCTara would be a great mom.
Bud Haven
2022-12-17 01:02:58 +0000 UTCIt is soo poignant imo! Love it so much!
Phoenix Dawn
2022-12-17 00:18:18 +0000 UTCI love the twist that in the end, Buffy is actually driven to see her mother again, in whatever form, while it's Dawn who comes to her senses and puts a stop to it.
Andrew Pulrang
2022-12-16 20:28:17 +0000 UTCAnd what a great job he does with this role, too.
Andrew Pulrang
2022-12-16 20:26:24 +0000 UTCThat 'mommy' by SMG at the end... heartbreaking
Amy
2022-12-16 18:27:49 +0000 UTCThe guy who played the demon that Spike and Dawn visit about the resurrection spell is oscar winning actor, and all round Broadway mega legend, Joel Grey. He won the academy award for best supporting actor in 1973 for his role as the MC in Cabaret, a role he also performed in the show's inaugural Broadway run as well. If you haven't seen Cabaret, you need to put it on your 'must see' list, because it's amazing and Joel Grey is amazing in it. Word apparently was, as well, that they wanted Joel Grey for the part of the demon, but were a bit reluctant/nervous at first to contact him because they were thinking, "OMG he's an academy award winning actor, is he really gonna agree to do a show like Buffy?', and then when they spoke to him they discovered he was actually a fan of the show.
Claire Eyles
2022-12-16 18:15:05 +0000 UTCAnya's speech about sex as meaningful because of the notions of life and death reminds me of one of my favourite (and also spiritually important) parts of the sacred Wiccan prose called "The Legend of the Descent of the Goddess" - "For there are three great events in life; love, death and resurrection in the new body, and magic controls them all. To fulfill love you must return again at the same time and place as the loved ones, and you must remember and love them again. But to be reborn you must die and be ready for a new body; to die you must be born; without love you may not be born, and this is all the magic."
Claire Eyles
2022-12-16 17:55:02 +0000 UTCThe detail that kills me is that the song that is playing during that little scene of Giles drinking in his apartment is "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream, a.k.a. the song he and Joyce were listening to together during Band Candy in Season 3 ๐ข
boleynns
2022-12-16 16:57:08 +0000 UTC
