Shaun Of The Dead Film Analysis

Edgar Wright is a really great director who knows how to make people laugh. He is known for his Comedic Cornetto Trilogy, and the movies I will be talking about are “Shaun of the Dead”, and “Hot Fuzz” are the two of them. The scenes display the kind of style he uses in the films, and by using film techniques it helps show the style by how effective it is. Techniques such as music, sound effects, camera work e.g close ups, mid shots, and characters. Wright uses these techniques to grab people’s attention, which can make you laugh, and feel the tension possibly making you sit on the edge of your seat.

Wright has created quite a few similarities between the two movies, such as the use of characters. He has used the same two actors, who are the main characters of both of these movies, to play best friends that work together. The use of characters make it work, as they are just both hilarious, and that one of them is smart, and the other is dumb. With the sense of humour, it’s quite hard for them to not make you laugh especially when they’re working things out together, or when they just to talk to each other in general as you will see in “Shaun of the Dead”, and in “Hot Fuzz”. In both these movies, they both work together, and try to solve things out. In “Shaun of the Dead”, they both try and figure out a way to try and survive from the zombie …show more content…
The scene in “Hot Fuzz”, when Nicholas Angel has come back to town for revenge, and to capture everyone and put them to jail. He came back on a big white horse, and was armed with weapons. When he came back, everyone was so shocked, thinking he was dead. As he was arriving, the camera would slowly do close ups on everyone's faces, showing their reactions while they were staring at Nicholas as he was arriving. This camera technique that Wright has used, shows the emotion from their faces and makes it really