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Today I'm going to analyse film Director Simon Pegg and actor Nick frost with their movies that they collaborated together to create. As our theme for our main task is under the genre of comedy we thought that it would be appropriate to see why famous comedy producers such as this duo are successful. Most of their work consists of parody's of famous movies or TV series'. A good example of this would be Shaun of the Dead which was a parody of the walking Dead which is an American TV series based on zombies with over the top gore and drama. The way that Simon and Nick made this funny though was by adding in the "British Version". So as you can imagine in America as guns are legal so everyone had a gun but in the UK we would have to be very creative and have to use other things such as a Cricket bat, part of a stair well and in one case a mans arm that had been ripped apart. What the essentially did `was take the piss out of themselves and the British public in a way that no one could get offended as it was true and quite hilarious.
Another famous parody they released was "Hot Fuzz" which was a parody on the British police force (service sorry). In your usual Cop film you would usually expect big tough robbers with guns stealing money from a bank whilst the "cops" try to stop them. Instead as its England it takes place in a village with what it seems harmless pensioner vs. Two police officers One who is a good police officer the other is just hilarious and as it turns out the pensioners are criminal masterminds with guns and artillery which is the last thing that you would expect, this is why it is funny as well as references to American Cop films like Breaking Point and Bad Boys 2. So for our task film references might be a good idea to use.
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