The title refers to the Buffalo Bills American football team, who had not won a championship since the 1965 American Football League Championship Game (which was actually played on December 26, 1965). The plot involves indirect references to the Bills' narrow loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXV, which was decided by a missed field goal. As they leave his parents' house, Billy scolds Layla for telling an obvious lie to his father, and then decides to go bowling. Here, Billy shows off his expertise at the sport, and Layla gives a tap dance routine to King Crimson's 'Moonchild'. The two use a photo booth to take photos "spanning time" which Billy intends to send to his parents once a year, but Billy becomes annoyed when Layla makes silly faces during the photos, in contrast to Billy's straight face. Dipietro, Monty (7 August 2002). "Vincent Gallo: the one that got away". Japan Times. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. a b c "Gallo's Humor: FFC Interviews Vincent Gallo". Film Freak Central. 2013-01-03 . Retrieved 2014-06-19. Peretti, Jacques (13 November 2003). " 'You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent' ". The Guardian.

Tiffany Lee-Youngren (2005-01-18). "Truth or consequences". San Diego Union Tribune . Retrieved 2008-04-15. But as the album proves, Wet Leg are not exactly soft-spoken when it comes to dissecting male lameness. As Teasdale tells an admirer, “You say you think about me in the midnight hour/I know that you’re just rubbing one out up in the shower.”The 2011 Japanese video game Catherine by Atlus based its characters Vincent Brooks and Catherine after Gallo's Billy Brown and Ricci's Layla. Vincent is also named and modeled after Vincent Gallo himself due to his popularity in Japan. A few hours after midnight, he is about to leave to exact his revenge on Wood, when Layla awakens. Despite Layla's doubts that he'll return and proclamation of her love for him, he leaves, lying to her that he'll return in a few minutes with hot chocolate for her.

Dialogue from the film is sampled in reverse during the song "I'm Getting Closer" on M83 by the band M83. Dave Calhoun. "Christina Ricci interview". Time Out. Archived from the original on 2008-04-11 . Retrieved 2008-04-15.Golsen, Tyler (12 January 2022). "The indie film referenced in the Wet Leg song 'Wet Dream' ". Far Out Magazine . Retrieved 24 April 2022. Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman references Buffalo ‘66 in earlier recordings of his song “A Postcard to Nina”. In the plot of the song, he must pretend that he is Nina’s boyfriend during dinner with her parents. Shortly after leaving Layla at the motel, Billy finds Scott Wood, now the owner of a topless bar. At Wood's own bar, he walks over to Wood's table and shoots him in the head, before shooting himself. His parents are then shown sitting by his grave with his mother showing more interest in a Buffalo game on the radio than in her own son's death. However, this is all shown to be inside of Billy's mind. Billy leaves the bar without killing Wood, realizing that in Layla he's finally found a person who truly loves him. After making amends with his friend Goon ( Kevin Corrigan) on a payphone, the film ends with Billy elatedly buying Layla her hot chocolate and a heart-shaped cookie, and buying another for a man sitting nearby who tells him he has a girlfriend, before returning to Layla at the motel.

My problem throughout was that whilst I understood Billys issues, other than an arguably a nice bum he had no redeeming features whatsoever. He was mean and self centered yet somehow Layla warms to this and I couldnt understand why? However, not enough is known or ever learnt about Layla and had we known this it may had been easier to understand her train of thought? Maybe thats the point, in that process of love is not rational and we are destined to fall for the first mentalist that kidnaps us and takes us against our will? In the films defence, towards the end the film does take a turn for the better and you do end up caring a little more for the both of them but not enough to rescue it from its muddled beginnings. British band Wet Leg mention the film in their 2021 song "Wet Dream", in which a character propositions the singer with "Baby do you want to come home with me; I've got Buffalo '66 on DVD". [21] Capone Takes A Shot In The Mouth From THE BROWN BUNNY'S Vincent Gallo!! - Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news". Aintitcool.com . Retrieved 2014-06-19. The film has since gained a cult following, [19] especially in Japan. [20] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Year They’re a classic Britpop rhythm-guitar band — drop them in the 1990s, and they’re up there with Elastica or Pulp; drop them in the 2000s and they’re with Franz Ferdinand, the Rakes, or the Maccabees. Teasdale handles lead vocals and lead guitar, with significant input from keyboardist and producer Dan Carey. Chambers adds crucial personality as well as a solo spotlight in “Convincing.”Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Vincent Gallo, starring Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston. The plot revolves around Billy Brown (Gallo), a man who kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife to impress his parents (Gazzara and Huston) after he gets released from prison. But it’s in ‘Wet Dream’, the band’s second single, where a strange reference gets busted out: “You said: ‘Baby do you want to come home with me / I got Buffalo ’66 on DVD.'” Not the most foolproof move of the modern-day, it’s a strange point reference for an appropriately surreal and… let’s call it an intimate song. a b "From the Vaults: Vincent Gallo on Buffalo and Buffalo 66". The Public. 2015-03-30 . Retrieved 2018-09-23. That makes Buffalo ’66 a great reference point in ‘Wet Dream’ when this hapless central character thinks he’s good enough to be thinking about singer Rhian Teasdale while he’s… practising self-service. Actually, euphemisms about masturbation are even grosser than just saying masturbation, so let’s not go down that route. In any case, this is an idiot who has got quite a bit of nerve.