In 1999, British television Channel 4 aired a series of comedies called "Space", which mainly about the ridiculous daily life of a down-and-out London youth, which won praise in the United Kingdom, and the director of "Space" who swept several British TV awards , Simon Peggy , producer Neela Parker , familiar with the public's sense of identity with Di Si , collaborated on a zombie film full of British humor , "Shaun the Zombie" in 2004.
The funniest zombie movie "Shaun the Zombie"
"Zombies" or "living dead" and "walking dead" first appeared in 1968 by George W. Bush. In the film Night of the Living Dead directed by A. Romero
Zombies, a monster turned from man, quickly gained the favor of audiences and directors, and films with this theme emerged in an endless stream, and various forms were quickly eaten dry and erased
When we know that a movie is a zombie movie, we roughly know what story it is, what content will appear in the most classic zombie mode, the American drama "The Walking Dead" has been perfectly presented, the protagonist is brave and good at war, and has repeatedly escaped from the mouth of zombies
Fragile human nature is vulnerable under the pressure of harsh environment, and the living are far more terrible than the living dead
The vast majority of zombie films are taking the above path, which is more tired
In order not to let smart audiences have a low desire to consume "before eating", directors and screenwriters must make the story a little new
The first half of Tarantino's "Breaking Dawn" is a road movie, and the second half is suddenly cut into a chamber of zombie films, although it has no connotation, but it wins unexpectedly
Will Smith starred in "I Am Legend" in only two places where zombies appeared, and the rest were Smith's solo dances
The protagonist of the film is not the zombie and the only surviving male protagonist, but the endless loneliness of the male protagonist, which is something more desperate than fear
Korean directors play genre films to the point of pure fire and magic, zombie films They have "Busan Trip"
Striking a good balance between fighting zombies and criticizing human nature is both profound and entertaining
There are also directors who have taken into account the element of love, and "Warm Corpse" proves that not only rich and handsome vampires can fall in love
Zombies shaped like dicks can also eliminate racial segregation and harvest the hearts of goddesses
Since zombies can fall in love, it is certainly not a problem to spoof Shaun of zombies successfully play zombies across the line, homogenizing people and zombies At the beginning of the film, the sentient beings show the mechanical, monotonous, and repetitive life of human beings, suggesting that there is not much difference between lazy people and zombies
The title also implies that Sean is a member of the "zombies"
Here's the plot
Sean is 29 years old, home appliance shopping guide, not surprisingly, this is his life's work, there is a good lazy dead party, Ed, cohabitation
Sean is most proud of having a beautiful girlfriend, a good cabbage...
At the beginning of the film, the girlfriend is complaining that Shaun spends far more time on the dead party than himself (Shaun is a straight man) Shaun promises to change and prepares to take his girlfriend to a seafood restaurant the next day
As a result, Shaun turned his head and forgot about it, and his girlfriend got mad, turned over old accounts, and broke up
When these things happen, in the background, in the virtual focus shots, there are walking dead people who don't look closely, and they are no different from the listless people who usually walk on the road
Sean was not a man of heart either, and had not noticed anything out of the ordinary in the town, and even greeted one of them, a wonderful irony
The TV news has long been broadcast this matter, Shaun always changes stations at the key points of the news, shredding the information, causing him to learn that the news is very passive, which alludes to our era of information explosion, everyone gets fragmentary information, a news to look at twice, immediately turn to another
This does not help us to build our understanding of this society in the slightest, and the only use is to help the media increase traffic and make money
After the zombies exploded, Sean took refuge in a bar he visited, with his henchmen, his girlfriend and two of his friends, and his mother
The pub is called Winchester, and Winchester is both the name of a city in England and a shotgun name
Because there's a shotgun above the liquor cabinet in the bar, you know, guns and bullets are all in zombie movies
It plays an important role at the climax of the film - proving that the male protagonist's marksmanship is multi-dish
In the end, except for the male and female protagonists, everyone else died and warped, and Ed turned into a zombie and was kept in Shaun's captivity
Sean runs to the backyard to play a game with zombie Ed
When I first watched this ending, I felt very warm, it was not a friendship that transcended race
But when I watched it a second time, I found that the ending was not as bright as I thought, after Ed turned into a zombie, the audience felt sorry for it, I didn't think much
Because before the corpse change, the director has deliberately described Ed as a zombie
An unemployed young man with a fat head and big ears, who is addicted to games and beer all day long, untrimmed, dirty, and dirty
Saying that he is living with Sean is actually parasitizing Sean
This relationship continues to the end, where Ed turns into a real zombie zombie
There is no humanity, no life, no thinking, no human rights, only knowing how to eat
So the ending is not a sign of Ed and Sean's friendship
It is a mockery of those giant babies who have no contribution to society, waste time, and only know how to play games, eat and drink, eat and drink, and eat and die every day
The film also does not forget to make a sarcastic attack on all mankind
After the zombies were subdued, they became slaves and entertainment objects for humans
Use the four words to the extreme
When the zombies came, the humans were scared to death, the zombies were subdued, and the humans came out and swung wildly
Humans are really a strange species that is both afraid of death and death
The protagonists can survive because the zombies themselves are too weak and completely devoid of the fierceness of their fellow zombies
Throw Shaun and his gang into Dawn of the Living Dead, and they won't have time to be funny and cute, stepping on the queen's song to knock zombies
It is precisely because the attack power of zombies is weakened that we can laugh and not be distracted by nervousness and fear
The film spends most of its time avoiding a head-on collision between the zombie swarm and Sean, and one or two can provide jokes
More must slip into the category of tragedy
At the end, Shaun vs. The corpses are not so funny, and they are serious
Shaun the Zombie is a high-end comedy with a threshold of resonance, and the characters don't deliberately entertain the audience
Its laugh points come from the clever plot arrangement and the use of cameras and editing
The clever plot arrangement is reflected in the contrast between the zombies before and after the appearance
Sean used to go to the supermarket when he got up, and the director used a long shot to follow Sean along
Before and after the zombie appears, Sean each went to the supermarket, the two sets of shots are almost the same such a comparison, after the zombie appears, those micro-anomalies will be very prominent The audience knows, the protagonist Sean does not know, continue shopping, and layers of danger pass by
Chaplin is the most commonly used comedy of turning danger into disaster
While we were worried about him, we were also amused
If you look closely at the film, you will find a lot of clever arrangements
Shaun met his friend Jenny three times, and each time he asked and answered, "Are you okay?" and "I'm still alive."
The three Q&A have different contexts, appearing in the first three paragraphs of the story
The first was a daily greeting, the second was when Sean took his friends and family to hide from the zombies, and the third time was when Sean and his girlfriend survived
Each of Sean's answers symbolizes a moment of growth and change
The phrase "I'm still alive" is the motif of the film, and the film uses the half-dead creature of the zombie to warn the audience not to forget that they are alive and how to count alive? The protagonist is definitely carrying the director's values
Sean's previous life must have been denied by the director, it was an unrestrained, decadent, gray life Shaun did not spend energy to maintain family and love, in a word, it was a lack of responsibility
How to count alive? The answer is self-evident, that is, to assume the social responsibility that you should bear, not to prevaricate, not to escape the balance of your social role, but you should not regard your friends more than your parents and wives and children
Taking responsibility is also to make most people really feel that when they grow up, they will face the risk of being blamed, just like the male second in the film, who constantly complains that Shaun puts them in danger, and there are many people in society, except to add to the heart of the blockage, can not play any role
They are a stumbling block on your way to growth, but don't be afraid, stick to it, sooner or later there will be zombies (others) picking them up
In "Warm Corpse", the zombie male protagonist has changed back to the human reality because of love, and we want to get rid of the zombie life from picking up a responsibility