Comparison Of Scott Pilgrim And Shaun Of The Dead

While Shaun of the Dead has some instances of music use similar to that of Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs The World can also be compared. Scott Pilgrim, unlike any other Edgar Wright film, is a comic book adaptation and is set in Canada, which differs greatly from the particularly British setting and plot points of his previous films. While not culturally or geographically similar to Baby Driver’s Atlanta setting, it does show that Edgar Wright has long been capable of telling stories outside of his native England. Scott Pilgrim, like Baby Driver, has been talked about in terms of being a musical. While Baby Driver was credited as a new type of musical due to its meticulously choreographed car chases, Scott Pilgrim has been described similarly, …show more content…
In Scott Pilgrim, this is observed during fight scenes at different emotional points in the film. Edgar Wright has said that treating the fight scenes as musical numbers allowed him to incorporate ideas from the comics that would normally render the whole film ridiculous, in the way that in a classic movie musical, a character would break into song and dance then the story would move on without question. Scott Pilgrim is also an impressive feat of editing and directing on Edgar Wright’s part, however this film does not focus so much on editing to the beat and quick cutting, but instead on creative transitions. In many of Edgar Wright’s films, he uses what is sometimes known as a body wipe, allowing a figure such as a person or item of furniture to carry the shot from one scene to another. This is very prominent in Scott Pilgrim, one notable scene utilising a split screen during a phone call to then pan across the room previously obscured by the split, then a chair carries the shot to an outside scene, while a comic book style bell sound adds fluidity between the scenes (see figure