His comment was "It's a dead parrot, why are they going on about it? I don't see how this is funny." and it never struck me that the carry-on in that sketch could be construed as anything but funny. I used to live with a guy from Miami who didn't get the Monty Python Parrot Sketch. I suppose it's like the fact that I struggle sometimes with cringe comedy, and don't generally enjoy it, so tend to avoid even British comedy that relies too much on that. Absurdist comedy just isn't for everyone, and that cuts out swathes of British comedy. It often mixes that irony, sarcasm, and dry humour with slapstick, which leads to that feel of absurdity (see: Blackadder/Monty Python/AbFab/Dad's Army/Vicar of Dibley etc.) which I think alienates a lot of people. I think British comedy contains a lot of double entendre and extended boughts of word play, it's often absurdist, and it's rare to find British comedy that doesn't rely heavily on irony. B99 is irreplaceable, Parks and Recs is a gem, Scrubs was classic, and I prefer the American Office to the British one, but I find them to be exceptions to the general rule.) I will say, I'm not a huge fan of American comedy in general, so I empathise in a way (not that I don't absolutely love certain American comedies. The Brits will almost inevitably find it hysterical, my French and Australian friends tend to really get it too, but the toughest crowds for British humour are definitely Americans. Stream live and on demand to your laptop, TV, iPad, iPhone and other devices. I have watched British comedy of all sorts with Americans, Germans, Austrians, French, Australians. Join in and start watching Shaun Of The Dead instantly, with a movies membership on NOW. Absolutely everything is either a reference or comes back later in the film. There is so much more than that, but it's just an amazingly well made film. Ed describes the entire movie's plot via their drinking plans after Liz dumps Shaun. All the characters in the opening credits shambling like zombies appear later in the film as actual zombies.
Shaun and Yvonne have the same conversation three times in the film ("How are you doing?" "Surviving.") and it takes on a new meaning every time.
Watch the long tracking shot when Shaun goes to the store in the beginning and then see how the same exact shot is used later after the zombies have started. There is heart, comedy, horror, and everything in between. Everything in the movie has a purpose or secondary meaning. It's not a work of art like a Kubrick film or a classic like Casablanca, but if you want to make any sort of movie, watch SotD and take notes. And it's played perfectly straight, taking its subject matter and characters very seriously, but squeezing out every drop of comedic elements and draping the whole with homages, references and straight lifts from titans of the horror genre.I say with no hyperbole: Shaun of the Dead is my favorite film of all time and is one of the best made films ever. A script that is, in fact, the basis for any number of zombie horror films. Of course, nothing goes to plan and several mishaps later, the motley crew, barricaded in, have to fight for their very lives.
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When the TV show, Spaced (2001) finished it’s run, season 1, episode 3, had an opening montage that led directly to tonight’s feature writer, Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright (sadly missing writing partner Jessica Stephenson, which does actually show in the finished product) pitched the idea for a horror comedy – typically a very difficult genre to get correct – with the resulting feature becoming an instant critical and commercial success and paving the way, not only for the other two films in the ‘Cornetto Trilogy’, but also for their respective careers.īoiled down, the plot is incredibly simple faced with a zombie apocalypse, a recently dumped electronics salesman, along with his housemate, collect the ex-girlfriend, her two friends and his mum and stepdad and try to make it to a safe haven, the Winchester pub, in which to survive.
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