From Chris Snellgrove
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Buffy, the vampire butcher Was more than a popular urban fantasy show. It was a television series that changed the television landscape with its exciting script and at the same time fell in love with our versatile characters. Perhaps none of these characters was captivating as spike by James Marsters, who enters the series as a soulless and selfish vampire and ends the series with a heroic self -sacrifice to save the world. Many Buffy Fans have wished that Spike were real, and maybe he was … at least some fans say after a Redditor discovered a perfect spike double in a Joy Division documentary.
The true spike
This story begins with R/Buffy (the chief). Buffy, the vampire butcher Subreddit), where U/Potental vanguage685 posted pictures of a spike double who was only too real. The user had looked at the 2007 documentation Joy Division which focused on the band of the same name and mainly contained clips from the late 70s. And the user took helpful photos of this spike double, who appeared on the screen during assembly that highlights the British punk scene of this era.
At this point it must be emphasized that this nameless man doesn’t just look that way James MarstersThe actor who brought our favorite evil vampire to life. Instead this Buffy The fan noticed how much the man Spike himself resembled, which showed the appearance as if this vampire once existed in the real world. And after posting the pictures, the fans hurried to point to the irony that this man did not necessarily look like Spike … Instead, Spike was deliberately designed that he looked like this type of archetypal point figure.
On the one hand, Buffy Showrunner Joss Whedon wanted Spike based on the later real punk scene Joy Division Documentary, caught so lovingly. In an earlier interview, Whedon made it clear that his vampire creation should be “an English punk rock vampire”. This required a redesign and some voice training by the real Englishman Anthony Stewart Head, and all the work on a British accent was twice ironically because Marsters originally spoke out with a strong Louisiana accent that would have been better at home True blood.
On it Buffy Subreddit discussed many fans about how much the nameless man resembled both the fictional spike and the real music legend Billy Idol. As many of these fans already knew, Spike’s look was deliberately modeled on the show, so that we later got a funny disposable line about how Idol Spike stolen his look and not the other way around. But in the real world, Idol’s look was more inspired by groups like the sex pistols, which closes the circle: Joss Whedon wanted Spike to be more like Sid Vicious, and Marsters insisted that he should be more like Johnny Rotten.
Unfortunately enough for Buffy Fans everywhere, Spike is not really real. If he were, half of them would constantly feel like him and the other half would shout at him because of season 6. But this unknown stranger in a Joy Division documentary is the proof that the various influences from our world, which led to Spike creation, were too real. In this sense, one could say that the true Wilhelm the bloody was in us all the time.
