British style KUSO-"Zombie Shaun" & "Blood Detective"

Ryleigh 2022-03-18 09:01:02

Coincidentally, I watched two movies by British director Edgar Wright in two months-"Shaun the Zombie" and "Detective Blood", both starred by Simon Pegg. This Simon, who has a round head, a clumsy expression, and a slightly asymmetrical face, makes people coke at first sight...

"Shaun the Zombie" is a post-watch. If I didn't see Simon showing his face, I would really think it was. It is a horrible zombie film like "Dawn of the Living Dead". Although it is said that Edgar Wright likes "Dawn of the Living Dead" very much, and regards this film as a tribute to "Living", if Kuso is also a kind of tribute. Too many zombie films are easy to produce antibodies, such as "Dawn of the Living Dead", "Resident Evil" series, etc., but this film made my antibodies useless, because the jokes in it made me immune. The heroic complex of the little people is Survive on such a day when zombies are flooded.

Two films, "The Hot Blood Detective" is more perfect. If you exclude the spoof element, "Hot" has all the successful elements of commercial films: twists and turns, suspense, violent scenes, and Cult elements. It is even more interesting than the plots of many pure genre commercial films. But Edgar Wright wants you to watch more than that. The jokes and unexpected baggage from the beginning to the end will definitely make you burst into laughter, and if you watch enough movies, you will find that the whole movie has There are many pairs of different movie elements, especially Kuso for Hollywood movies. Such as "Bad Boys2", "Break Point", "Romeo & Juliet" and even "Harry Potter" have all been spoofed.

British Kuso must be different from others in its black humor. The simple Kuso is inevitably superficial, but while these two films are extremely funny, they also contain deeper thinking. Because it's Kuso, sometimes you really can't say for sure, this kind of deep theme is the director deliberately, and the theme is also Kuso, or is it just the theme that the director really wants to express after Kuso.

In "Shaun the Zombie", we saw Kafka's metaphor for the transformation of people into zombies, a philosophical thinking that people are equal to zombies.

In "Hot Blood Detective", we have seen the criminal behavior of those in power who voluntarily massacred disharmony in order to maintain the surface peace.

Or, take their own best, you can treat them as a satire of reality, or as a deeper Kuso.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that there are many rock elements in "Shaun Zombie". From the episode to the film, vinyl records are selected as weapons one by one, so that many people have included this film in the category of rock films.

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Extended Reading
  • Johanna 2021-10-20 18:59:57

    "It hurts me, I want to eat ice cream!" Jin! The sharp editing is interlocking. The team of "Zombie Shaun" has the same absurd spoof, not so funny in terms of humor, but the meaning of the movie is deeper than this black humor, full of irony. Except for the final ending, there is something superfluous. ★★★★

  • Laila 2021-10-20 18:59:56

    9 points are very cool. I knew it wouldn't be that simple at the beginning, or I would have lost the Audio-Technica combination. The first half has a lot of laughs, and the cut is a lot stronger. The change is great (headshot). The layout behind it is fairly compact, and the car chase scene is a bit cumbersome, but I can bear it when I think of others having fun, and the gunfight is quite exciting. The shooting in the sky moved me to death. The ending is slightly weaker, a bit unfinished. I like it overall. Pegg plays a serious role very well.

Hot Fuzz quotes

  • [Danny and Nicholas have just watched 'Point Break']

    Danny Butterman: What do you think?

    Nicholas Angel: Well, I wouldn't argue that it wasn't a no-holds-barred, adrenaline-fueled thrill ride. But there is no way you can perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.

    Danny Butterman: That is nothing man, this is about to go off!

  • [Skinner is explaining why the NWA had Martin Blower murdered]

    Simon Skinner: You see, much as I enjoyed your wild theories Sergeant, the truth is far less complex. Blower's fate was simply the result of his being... an appalling actor.

    NWA Members: [echoing in agreement] Appalling.

    Nicholas Angel: You murdered him for that?

    Simon Skinner: He murdered Bill Shakespeare.

    Nicholas Angel: What? Oh.

    Annette Roper: Martin Blower was less concerned with the reputation of the village than he was with his sordid affair with Eve Draper!

    Nicholas Angel: So Eve deserved to die too?

    Dr. Robin Hatcher: Well, she did have a very annoying laugh.

    NWA Members: [echoing in agreement] Annoying.

    Nicholas Angel: George Merchant?

    Simon Skinner: He had in awful house.

    NWA Members: [echoing in agreement] Awful.