Edgar Wright's Use Of Montages In Shaun Of The Dead

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Edgar Wright is a good director who is known for using different genres and twisting them to make them comedic. He has directed many films such as Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and also The World’s End which is his comedic ‘Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy’.

Edgar Wright uses montages in his films in parts that are boring, so that people don’t have to sit through long, boring footage, also these particular scenes don’t have to be cut out. These are still important parts, even though they are parts that don’t catch the interest of the viewers. Wright made it more eye-catching. He made them into one fast montage that was more efficient than five boring scenes and it would catch the interest of the viewers, making short clips fast, in one, it makes you want to watch the movie. This type of scene is better than knowing there are so many parts that just bore you and you know that Wright puts in montages which are interesting. I think these montages work and help people stay interested in the film rather than them
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Shaun’s girlfriend in the film just broke up with him and he’s sad from it so Ed is trying to make him feel better. Ed ends up saying near the end of the conversation “it’s not like it’s the end of the world”. In that moment, a person groaning hits their hand on the blurry window so they are not seen. Ed assumes it’s drunk person, but the viewers, including me might think it’s a dead person (zombie). So saying it’s not the end of the world ties in with the “dead person” or “drunk” (we don’t really know) turning up in that scene in a way of saying that the world has basically ended because the dead have started to roam around from that point onwards. We see later on after that scene, that there is a dead person (zombie) eating another person, and we see these two before they even entered the

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