I can't remember the context, but I wonder if "Gimme the Spielberg" is another way of saying, "Tell me the story."
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
sumi - Sep 13, 2006 6:47:27 am PDT #3619 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
Topic!Cindy - Sep 13, 2006 7:30:05 am PDT #3620 of 10469
What is even happening?
It probably does mean something like that, but I can't for the life of me recall it, nor can I find record of it. The only Spielberg references I can think of in the series don't even include his name. There are a few
Jaws
shout-outs, and the like, the most memorable of which is probably Xander's, "We're gonna need a bigger boat," from GD I. Now I just need to know who says it in TH, and when. This time, it's personal.
JZ - Sep 13, 2006 8:37:42 am PDT #3621 of 10469
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
IIRC from the commentary, "Gimme the Spielberg" was Joss's shorthand to the cameraman for "Give me a gorgeously lit, iconic shot of the central character that whomps the viewer in the heart and the gut," and the cameraman's response was that blue-lit zoom in on Buffy in the millisecond after taking Luke out, looking heartstoppingly cute but feral and unstoppable, which shot Joss fell totally and utterly in love with.
sumi - Sep 13, 2006 8:47:23 am PDT #3622 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, so nobody actually said it in the episode?
Because that may explain why I don't remember it.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 13, 2006 9:35:02 am PDT #3623 of 10469
What is even happening?
Oh, good. Thanks, JZ.
SailAweigh - Sep 13, 2006 9:59:22 am PDT #3624 of 10469
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ah, now that makes more sense. I do love that shot. Didn't they use it in the opening credits for a while?
Topic!Cindy - Sep 13, 2006 10:02:03 am PDT #3625 of 10469
What is even happening?
I think they did, Sail, as the power shot at the end of the credits sequence, maybe.
SailAweigh - Sep 13, 2006 10:04:25 am PDT #3626 of 10469
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
That sounds about right. I think it got replaced around season 3, though, with that shot of Buffy in "Hell" from the first episode of the season, "Anne." The lighting was very similar.
Gris - Sep 14, 2006 12:06:49 pm PDT #3627 of 10469
Hey. New board.
How did I not know that Once More with Feeling is playing at the IFC here in NYC on Friday and Saturday?
sumi - Sep 14, 2006 3:58:19 pm PDT #3628 of 10469
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, how fun!