Buffalo 66
Buffalo 66 is a film by actor and director, Vincent Gallo that follows a man named Billy Brown, an ex con looking to crawl his way out of a hole he never really meant to dig for himself in the first place.
As an audience, it is difficult to really care about Billy. He is an apparent maniac of a person with no manners or any real life qualities about him. However when he kidnaps student, Layla, to meet his parents, claiming that she is his wife, Layla grows attracted to Billy.
It's a tale of loneliness and disparity, two qualities that are well intwined within my own story. The details about Billy being an ex con as well as being this mannerless bastard of a human being almost makes him an alternative to David's character, or perhaps a reflection of David's past life.
I found the film to be brilliant and moving, with, at least in terms of my film, a heavily relatable character in Billy Brown, an ex con looking to reinstate his life in his own way.
Evaluation of Billy Brown's character
Billy's character is introduced into the film as this completely out of touch human being, in every sense of the word. His greasy, unwashed hair, patchy beard and leather jacket give off the impression that he has been lost in time in the five years that he has been in prison. He seems so unfit and so ill prepared for what is out there in the real world.
Estranged from his parents, one of his first acts as a free man is to organise a meet up with his parents who are completely unaware that he has been in prison for the last five years. He explains to his parents that he has been out of the country and has a wife named Wendy who is currently ill.
As I've already said, Billy is a strongly relatable character to what David would have been like before his big prison sentence, with some flashes of the modern day David thrown in there as well. Both have been alienated from society and feel out of touch.
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