HOT FUZZ
Hot Fuzz is the second film in ‘The Three Flavours Cornetto ‘. This trilogy of films, which all star Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman, are directed by Edgar Wright and produced by Nira Park. All these films are comedy and are linked by the appearance of a cornetto – the type of cornetto loosely links to the theme of the film.
In the first of these films, Shaun of the Dead, the cornetto is strawberry flavoured (the red referring to all the blood.) Hot Fuzz features a cornetto with a blue wrapper (referring to the Police) and in the final film The World’s End the cornetto is mint green (representing the aliens.)
Hot Fuzz is about the partnering of two very different cops: PC Nicholas Angel (played by Pegg) and PC Danny Butterman (played by Frost). Nicholas Angel is serious about his career compared to the Danny Butterman who is the complete opposite. They meet when Police Officer Angel is sent away from the London Police station to become a Sergeant in a small village called Sandford, who have achieved the ‘Village of the Year’ award multiple times. The further into the film it goes the more the police officers create a friendship. Sergeant Angel investigates multiple suspicious accidents, where he wonders if they are actually what they seem. It ends with a plot twist and high intensity action scenes, comically similar to the ones in Bad Boys 2.
Edgar Wright is known for repeating certain tendencies when directing his films. The film Hot Fuzz only proves it more as he uses fast action montages, repeated dialog, scenes located within a pub or fence jump fails. Typical of his style, the film is a high action with distinctive manic comedy and lots of twists and turns.
Hot Fuzz shows comedy in a slightly different way compared to other modern comedy films. It involves lots of subtle comedic moments that can relate back to other parts of the movie or at other times just for a funny clip that shows for a few seconds. An example of this is in the quick montages that happen throughout the film; not all of them have comedic elements but some shots have an element that isn’t anticipated or made more known as it is gone in a few seconds. This contrasts with other films that usually try to grab the viewer’s focus on a joke, which can be done by music or a gap of silence.
The other characters all had their own unique personalities, they all make valuable comedic contributions (often with unpredictable one liners) which add to the humour making the plot more engaging and hilarious.
The adrenaline pumping film has lots of dramatic music in the background from him grabbing a drink at a pub to shooting when he jumps in the air. This shows the parody the film is taking of action films, like Bad Boys 2.
