Per Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy vampire killer It’s one of those shows that I’m just coming back to. It is a kind of comfortable food that can help the worst days be more tolerable. The side effect of the constant rethinking of these classic episodes is to get more than a vague feeling of warm nostalgia. I also get the opportunity to discover the strange little details that we have never noticed before. Case in a point: During the flashback Bufy Episode “Becoming, the first part of” Old High School of Title is actually Square Courthouse Square, a universal backlot presented in many productions such as Return to the future.
Buffy and courtrooms
AND Buffy vampire killer The TV show effectively included the plot of an earlier movie using Square Courthouse to display Hemery High School. It’s the same school headquartered in Los Angeles, which the killer attended in the original 1992 Bufy The movie, in the show, there is an observer Merrick fills out of vampires and responsibilities to stop them. Significantly, this flashback reveals that Angel, a vampire with a soul, looked at Buffy and decided to want to “be someone” who could help her in his supernatural fights.
Here’s a confession that could lose me on my geek loan: I have seen a two -piece episode countless times “Post” and during Flashback I was too busy admired by relationships with Buffy vampire killer A movie for the remark of the court square. This time, however, I found myself staring at the screen, unable to shake the feeling that I saw this place before this series. Then it hit me: I am a child from the 80’s, and this set represented some of my biggest films from my childhood.
This Universal Backlot was built back in 1948 (before Buffy vampire killer Creator Joss Wedon was even born) even before his name was Square Courthouse. It was built for the movie The act of murderBut this was once called Square Mockingbird, because it was largely found in a famous 1962 adaptation of 1962 Kill a mocking bird. Starting in 1985, he got his new name thanks to the climate scene in Return to the future Where young Marty McFly has to drive perfectly heavy lightning or be stuck in the past in the future.
So it is: the same set used for this scene Buffy flashback u “Stations, the first part” used to revive Hill Valley Return to the futureincluding this court of iconic fictional city. As for the famous clock tower, it was a removable addition, and it is not uncommon for various directors to add landscapes when they do not want the courtrooms to look … Well … just the courtroom.
For film lovers, part of what is made Return to the future So special is that director Robert Zemeckis used the whole plot to revive Hill Valley, although much of the same theater and even the same clock tower) can be seen in Joe Dante Gremlinwho came out a year before. And while Return to the future and Gremlin are the most famous movies that are these Bufy The Set Courts is shown in the viewers of the eagle can spot it Batman and Robin,, Bruce AlmightyAnd more, including flawed but fun recent horror movie Maxxxin.
Admittedly, this Buffy vampire killer The episode was already very satisfactory, but the collection (so put) Square Courthouse Square takes over to the next level. Just like that, one of my favorite TV shows is connected to several of my favorite films and directors. Fortunately, the set even survived the fire on several occasions, but no one needed a real -life killer to go through the fire to help them extinguish the flames and preserve this iconic part of Hollywood history.