Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hush Episode)

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TJ: This episode was the most creative when it comes to directing and producing. It was about people losing their voices & they aren't able to say anything. Then these monsters come to town and they try to cut peoples hearts out of their body. Nobody can really kill them unless they have a human voice and they scream really loud. It all starts when Buffy has a vision of this little girl singing this nursery rhyme:

"Can't even shout, can't even cry

The Gentlemen are coming by.

Looking in windows, knocking on doors,

They need to take seven and they might take yours.

Can't call to mom, can't say a word,

You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."

The nursery rhyme is the whole metaphor because that is what exactly happened to a lot of people and since people cannot talk they have to really express themselves through emotions and actions and it really makes them communicate in an emotional way, a way that people aren't really used to. It is so easy to talk with words but when you are in a very dangerous situation and you can't talk you really express and show what you mean by your emotions. (It is very ironic because Buffy and Willow were recently both talking about how they couldn't express themselves to each others' mate.) It continued when this curse came out of a book and while everybody was sleep their voices would come out their body and when everybody woke up they were scared and shocked. Xander had blamed Spike for why nobody could talk. Buffy and Willow walk through the town, with dry-erase boards to write down their words so Sunnydale is closed down, except for bars and liquor stores an open-air, silent church service suggests this is the end of the world. A television news report states that everyone in Sunnydale has come down with a case of laryngitis and the town has been quarantined. Professor Walsh has Buffy, Riley, and other people to patrol the streets. The monsters in the nursery rhyme (the people in the picture above) would come from this dimension thing at night and literally glide through the neighborhood dressed in formal suits with silver teeth. They also had these hunchback looking monsters with big arms that worked for those monsters they were like the henchmen doing the dirty work by chasing people, grabbing them, and holding them down while the formal looking monsters would pull out a scalpel and cut their heart out. I think it was one of the best episodes of the show. So Buffy and her friends had to figure out a way to reverse the curse A lot of this stuff can relate to a lot of people who have nightmares of not being able to talk and not be heard and monster(s) come and try to put you in harms way Anybody that likes horror mixed in with nursery rhymes to make it more interesting will love this episode.

Big Boi's Blog:

Hey yall it’s big boi. Today I watched this movie that was kind of all right. I normally don’t watch scary movies but this one was all right. On a number scale 1-5 this one would receive a 3. I enjoyed it but it was to predictable. I think that the girls that was the main character (Buffy) was a little to weird. She always was the one to be left by her and or with a boy that has to deal with the evil. In this episode Buffy was in a college class and the teacher asks her come up for a quick demonstration. As Buffy was preparing to do the demonstration the teacher asks for Riley to come down and help her with the demonstration. When they had began to do the action Riley says that if he kisses Buffy then the sun would go down Weird right? Yeah I know well on we go, so as they are kissing the sun goes down and then it happens. Everyone had disappeared and she was questioning him asking where is everyone, then this little noise was picking through the air. “What is that Buffy asked.” So as she was following the voice she starts to have a type of fear in her face. Just kind of funny I could say. Well so on, so on at the end of the movie Buffy finds out that her and Riley were dating. Some more things that were pretty weird were that everyone in the town (Sunnydale) no one could talk. Ha very funny then Xander was trying to call someone to see if anyone has the disease. Come to find out none of them can communicate through mouth. Yeah laugh away…………..

The following is our beat sheet… Enjoy:

Cast

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
• James Marsters as Spike
• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
• Marc Blucas as Riley Finn
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Leonard Roberts as Forrest Gates
• Phina Oruche as Olivia
• Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
• Brooke Bloom as Nicole
• Jessica Townsend as Cheryl
• Lindsay Crouse as Maggie Walsh
• Camden Toy as Gentleman
• Charlie Brumbly as Gentleman
• Doug Jones as Lead Gentleman
• Don W. Lewis as Gentleman
• Carlos Amezcua as Newscaster
• Elizabeth Truax as Little Girl
• Wayne Sable as Freshman

Cast Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)#Acting