![]() ![]() Some of it’s in the promotional material, where leads Simon Pegg and Nick Frost pose like Hollywood action stars in tongue-in-cheek posters - the joke being that these men don’t look how we expect. A lot of it is in the filmic language itself the characterization, the dialogue, and not just the words spoken but their cadence and how they’re framed. ![]() If I were to list every reference in Hot Fuzz, I’d meet my word count and then some, and the references aren’t all as clear-cut as, well, literally putting clips of the films in the movie ( Point Break and Bad Boys 2). The era of police representation beginning in the 1980s and running well into the 90s seems particularly influential. Because the representation of the cop has existed for such a long time in the media, and has gone through a real rolodex of characteristics, it’s important to pinpoint exactly where Edgar Wright’s inspiration comes from. They account for some of the longest-running franchises, seem to be at home in both comedy and drama, and remain lodged in our collective memory with their bombastic action scenes and myriad witty quips ready to be regurgitated whenever the occasion demands. Police - and crime more generally - have been, and continue to be, incredibly popular in film and TV. To understand Hot Fuzz, it’s first important to understand what created it. Hot Fuzz stands out from the long list of police movies - including both buddy-cop and one-cop-versus-the-world stories - in the way that it manages its genre conventions. To hear Wright and co-writer/lead actor Simon Pegg talk about it, it’s clear that Hot Fuzz is intended as more of an homage to these movies rather than a full-on parody, but the interplay of the two and the treatment of this wealth of source material leads to something interesting. Edgar Wright - the writer/director - wears his influences on his sleeve, with a wealth of both overt and covert references to the buddy-cop tropes and cowboy cop characters that dominated police representation in 1980s-90s media. Hot Fuzz is, to put it simply, a troperiffic movie. ![]()
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