Buffy season one's first episode starts with Buffy the slayer coming into the town of Sunnydale, and she is already a slayer having fought vampires in LA.
So this first episode isn't really an origin-story. But there was once a movie in 1992 about Buffy, where she is played by another actor (Kristy Swanson), and that was an origin story. Joss Whedon wrote the story, but the studio filmed it with another director and the story was turned into a light comedy.
It's not a good movie, it's corny, and there is very little of what made the tv-show great, very little underlying drama, too little chemistry, and there were no scoobies, and too much focus on comedy (and it lacked the idea that vampires would just burst into dust when being killed by the slayer, yeah a small thing, but effective in selling the idea that vampires are different to humans and that they really died)... but nonetheless I like it, it's a sort of guilty pleasure.
I like Swanson playing Buffy, not only her more pronounced physicality, that seems more fitting for a slayer (though Sarah Michelle Gellar clearly conquers the role nonetheless). And I like the whole introduction between the watcher and Buffy before she accepted what he said, and the training-sequence is good...
I want to edit the movie, to bring it more in line with the tv-show (and to complete its pilot with this origin-story), removing the idea of the reincarnating watcher, removing all the cringeworthy aspects (for example removing the idea that the slayer has menstrual cramps as warning when vampires are nearby (yes, that was part of the movie, lol!)), making the fights more dynamic, adding the sound of vampires turning into dust(borrowed from the tv-show), adding a bit more dialogue (from the tv-show-episode "Becoming") to add some much needed drama...
TomH1138 had already a similar idea for an edit like this, he called it "Buffy the vampire Slayer- 20 year Remix", and I hope that someday he will work at and complete his vision for it, but I just couldn't withstand the temptation to work on it any longer.
The edit will be in HD and 5.1 sound.
Here's a videoclip showing Buffy seeing and fighting vampires for the first time (with the dust-sound added and that nice sound from "Becoming" (episode from season 2 of Buffy's tv-show, to be specific a part of flashback-scene in season 2) when she kills for the first time there and the watcher there saying "You see, you see your power?", of course with Merrick in the off saying that):
Password: Summers
So this first episode isn't really an origin-story. But there was once a movie in 1992 about Buffy, where she is played by another actor (Kristy Swanson), and that was an origin story. Joss Whedon wrote the story, but the studio filmed it with another director and the story was turned into a light comedy.
It's not a good movie, it's corny, and there is very little of what made the tv-show great, very little underlying drama, too little chemistry, and there were no scoobies, and too much focus on comedy (and it lacked the idea that vampires would just burst into dust when being killed by the slayer, yeah a small thing, but effective in selling the idea that vampires are different to humans and that they really died)... but nonetheless I like it, it's a sort of guilty pleasure.
I like Swanson playing Buffy, not only her more pronounced physicality, that seems more fitting for a slayer (though Sarah Michelle Gellar clearly conquers the role nonetheless). And I like the whole introduction between the watcher and Buffy before she accepted what he said, and the training-sequence is good...
I want to edit the movie, to bring it more in line with the tv-show (and to complete its pilot with this origin-story), removing the idea of the reincarnating watcher, removing all the cringeworthy aspects (for example removing the idea that the slayer has menstrual cramps as warning when vampires are nearby (yes, that was part of the movie, lol!)), making the fights more dynamic, adding the sound of vampires turning into dust(borrowed from the tv-show), adding a bit more dialogue (from the tv-show-episode "Becoming") to add some much needed drama...
TomH1138 had already a similar idea for an edit like this, he called it "Buffy the vampire Slayer- 20 year Remix", and I hope that someday he will work at and complete his vision for it, but I just couldn't withstand the temptation to work on it any longer.
The edit will be in HD and 5.1 sound.
Here's a videoclip showing Buffy seeing and fighting vampires for the first time (with the dust-sound added and that nice sound from "Becoming" (episode from season 2 of Buffy's tv-show, to be specific a part of flashback-scene in season 2) when she kills for the first time there and the watcher there saying "You see, you see your power?", of course with Merrick in the off saying that):
Password: Summers
