30 Days of the Cornetto Trilogy Challenge || Day 28: Anything you would change?
Ok so I wouldn’t really change anything about the movies cause I believe* in accepting the things as they are instead of what they could be, cause if not you would never like anything, just their potential, BUT....... gosh I wish the girls were written with as much love and care as the guys and had more screentime >_> Twe and Hot fuzz specially is like there is not even a lot of secondary girl characters. Sam is literally the only human woman in Newton Haven pls.
Anyway there is a lack of charas that arent white cishet guys in general, and I’m glad in stuff that Pegg and Wright did later there is a bit more of variety.
Also I know angelbutter is canon but I wish it was canon-canon extra canon do u feel me
*I believe in theory sadly in practice is harder
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ohgghghhhehehe, shaun riley with the title "After All These Years" 🫣
After All These Years
Shaun pushes open the shed door, as Ed greets him with a groan from the floor. Shaun crouches, turning on the television for Ed before turning to his friend with a sloppy grin.
"Hey, Ed." Shaun starts, sitting next to his friend, not bothering to pick up his twin controller. Ed moans again, mindlessly clacking away at his controller. Shaun clears his throat.
"Well. It's officially been about.. 25 years since we met! Isn't that insane?" He says, searching his undead friend's eyes for any emotion. There isn't any. Ed groans again, making a swipe for Shaun, who avoids it like second nature.
"It's.. kind of interesting that after all these years... we've changed. I'm not the tomboy you used to know, and you... you know. I've been on hormones for eleven years now too... time flies," Shaun muses, before his phone interrupts his train of thought. It's Liz, with a reminder to pick up their hormone perscriptions.
"Oh, sorry. Gotta go. Catch you later, you old oaf," Shaun says, patting his friend on the back as he gets up. He feels a bittersweet pang in his chest as he closes the shed door, contemplating how his life has turned out.
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I love how shaun of the dead and hot fuzz have very similar main types of humour in their core, but the world's end just "you know what? NEW PLAN"
because if shaun is mostly repetitions ("red on you", their plan to save barbara and liz and go to the winchester) with a bit of foreshadowings; and the hot fuzz is mostly foreshadowings with a bit of repetitions (you're a doctor, deal with it)
the world's end going mostly on misunderstanding
gary and oliver talking about bike
I didn't drink for years - wow you must be thirsty
the whole "I don't even know what pronoun is" chat
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WTF????"
and in actions too. like the moment where sam thought gary gave her an arm and he asked for cigarettes.
it's just so funny for me. like, the world's end always feels kinda aside. and I think this is the part of reason. but it still feels like the funniest form of humour in cornetto for me.
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Has everyone in the Good Omens fandom seen Shaun of the Dead?
(I tweeted this and then screenshot it because I had more to say. Also if you haven't seen the Thriller music video by Michael Jackson then you're missing out.)
It is very important to know that if you've seen Staged, you know that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were both on the show together in one episode. They are just as close to each other as David and Michael are to each other.
Here is when Shaun and Ed finally notice something weird might be going on.
They have no idea why this woman was showing up in their backyard and they just assume she is drunk. They were so drunk the previous night (Liz dumped Shaun) they don't realize they witnessed one woman completely bite a man's head off or realize that the person moaning back in reply to the song they were singing was actually a zombie.
Ed literally took the time to find one of those ancient cameras we had to use before the invention of the smartphone. And we know that everyone with a smart phone these days would be doing the exact same thing if this was happening right now.
But Shaun also has this girlfriend, Liz,
who is always third-wheeling on dates with her own boyfriend because Ed is never not with them. And the truth is that Shaun needs to make a choice because he can't have both, and Liz really loves him back just as much as he loves her, but Ed is basically Shaun's shadow.
Shaun and Ed begin a noble quest to save Shaun's mum (his stepdad was bitten by a zombie so it becomes necessary to kill him too but there is a flaw in their plan because Philip is still alive by the time they get to the house and Shaun isn't going to kill a living person so they have to add him to the car), to save Liz (only to realize David and Di are still with her and they don't want to be left behind so they get added to the tiny car), and to go to The Winchester (Shaun and Ed's favorite pub and the bane of Liz's existence) because it's sturdy with heavy doors and a rifle behind the counter.
And then all hell breaks loose because Philip finally turns into a zombie in the car, and it's Philip's car that Ed stole because he really wanted to drive it because it was a classic and the child safety locks are still on in the back.
They end up having to abandon the car after locking Philip in it.
They finally reach the pub by acting like zombies and hoping the other zombies don't notice.
And if you have never seen this scene, it's the funniest part of the entire movie. It's iconic, and it happens to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. (Warning: this is still very much a zombie movie)
In the end, Ed gets bitten and later sacrifices himself to the other zombies so Liz and Shaun can escape a little easier.
And then at the very end Shaun is letting zombie Ed live in his and Liz's shed and they still play video games together, and even if Ed tries to bite him from time to time, Shaun yells at him and zombie Ed goes back to playing video games.
It still got the happy ending of a romantic comedy, and we never actually learn what caused the zombie breakout, and the zombie's best friend is taking care of him in the shed of the backyard where he and Liz will live happily ever after (we hope).
The movie ends with the song "You're My Best Friend" by Queen.
Also note: Liz's best friend Di is the only other one in their group to survive the zombie apocalypse but you only find out how if you watch the special features.
I think we need to be looking at Shaun of the Dead a bit closer.
And Hot Fuzz ("surrender the angle" is an easter egg from it), also starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It's hilarious too.
The apocalypse is happening all around Aziraphale and Crowley, but we didn't notice because we were watching it through the lens of a romantic comedy. Meanwhile, Hell is overcrowded and Furfur set zombies loose on Earth in back in 1941.
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