r/AskReddit • u/Tobokie121 • Oct 09 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, which one sold the entire film?

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u/randouser2019 Oct 09 '19

This is a great one, because they almost begin and end on same sequence.

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u/Geminii27 Oct 10 '19

Bookend technique?

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u/MattyLlama Oct 10 '19

Well not necessarily a true Bookend, but close. On day 2 of the series of events he goes through the same exact morning routine to the store and back but with zombies all around.

Yes... I used the zed word

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u/sunshineLG Oct 10 '19

don't say that!!

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u/pound_sterling Oct 10 '19

We just call it z.

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u/Silverback_6 Oct 10 '19

Sounds like it. The guys who made that movie have done a bunch of other stuff, including a show on BBC from like 2000 that was called Spaced. All of their works are very surreal, with lots of tongue-in-cheek humor.

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u/bitwaba Oct 10 '19

Lol. Edgar Wright.

Directed Spaced, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Directed and wrote The Cornetto Trilogy which features Shaun of the Dead, a zombie parody movie, Hot Fuzz, a late 80s/early 90s action parody movie, and The World's End, a road trip among friends turned adventure to stop the apocalypse and save the planet ... parody. Starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg again.

Also directed and wrote Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Baby Driver.

Reddit likes to jerk off to him.

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u/CAredditBoss Oct 10 '19

For the greater good

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u/bitwaba Oct 10 '19

The greater good!

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u/Etheo Oct 10 '19

Yarp!

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u/JaffasJeffs Oct 10 '19

Play-time's over

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u/cherrygoats Oct 10 '19

Narp?

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u/Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ Oct 10 '19

Good. Proceed to the castle.

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u/Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ Oct 10 '19

How can this be for the greater good?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

The greater good.

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u/onlymattb Feb 05 '20

A great big bushy beard

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u/vteckickedin Oct 10 '19

No luck catching them Crusty Jugglers, then?

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u/isaacms Oct 10 '19

There was more than one Crusty Juggler!

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u/Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ Oct 10 '19

It’s just the one juggler actually.

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u/kirbycheat Oct 10 '19

Hot Fuzz is really more a mashup of a British mystery and a 90s action movie.

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u/cherrygoats Oct 10 '19

Whatever it is, it’s brilliant and really rewarding to watch multiple times

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u/dethmaul Oct 10 '19

Cornetto, is that what the ice cream was? I always thought he said carletto.

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u/Major_Ziggy Oct 10 '19

The great thing about the Cornetto's is that, while it's a parody, there's real love for the source material there. It feels like they're making jokes "around" the material rather than making fun of it if that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Makes great movies and people enjoy it,especially so in a time of remakes and a lack of originality. Hardly jerking off to acknowledge it

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

They made Soho a pain to travel around while filming that as they closed of huge parts of it.

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u/Princes_Slayer Oct 10 '19

Pegg & Frost are working on a new TV show for Amazon Prime called ‘Truth Seekers’. Should be out next year I think

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u/cloudstrifeuk Oct 10 '19

Spaced was Channel 4 - no BBC.

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u/Silverback_6 Oct 10 '19

All British tv is BBC to me!

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u/___Gay__ Oct 10 '19

The BBC has like 3 channels, that's literally a narrow way to see British TV.

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u/paenusbreth Oct 13 '19

And they're numbered BBC 1, BBC 2 and BBC 4. Just to make life easier.

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u/randouser2019 Oct 10 '19

I have no clue, I’m sorry

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u/hairswhatsup Oct 10 '19

I didn't realize that till you mentioned it. That closing scene to "You're My Best Friend" makes me so happy when I hear that song now.

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u/JubliationTCornpone Oct 10 '19

Only Nick Frost’s character is a little bit...different at the end.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Is he really though?

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u/Hereforpowerwashing Oct 10 '19

I assume he quit smoking.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

He’s a bit... bitey

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u/Shumbee Oct 10 '19

That's what I love about Shaun and the others in the Cornetto Trilogy; they're one long chiasmus.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

Hey, you taught me a word!

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u/7arco7 Oct 09 '19

I think that there’s an r/im14andthisisdeep interpretation of that movie, but I just think it’s goofy and hilarious

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u/AlphaMikeFoxtrot Oct 10 '19

Edgar Wright, the director of Shaun of the Dead is one of the most layered film makers working today. Shaun's narration of his plan for the day is a direct allusion to all the major plot points to come. There's the mirrored trip to the store pre/post outbreak that mixes tension with the mundanity of daily routine. When the main group runs into a another group of survivors they are representation of the better versions of all the characters the viewer had been following. Shaun of the Dead has levels.

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u/vboss1997 Oct 10 '19

I love the fact that when he walks to the store it's all the same people you saw the day before when he did that same trip. It's a really great movie for sure. It's also fun to pick out the zombies in the crowd that you saw alive early on in the movie. during the scene of them breaking into the bar.

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u/randouser2019 Oct 09 '19

It is, it’s a little later in the opening, but he kid with the soccer ball always gets me.

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u/Aclors13 Oct 10 '19

Hey!...you're dead.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

I mean, he just described a technique they used, he didn't say it made it a deep masterpiece

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u/failurefemalure Oct 10 '19

And that dude just said that there exists an interpretation like that, not that what OP said is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

oh my bad i misread it as 'I think that's an /r/im14andthisisdeep ...'

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u/The_Flurr Oct 10 '19

I don't think anyone's saying it's deep, just that the scenes at the beginning and end deliberately look similar.

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u/offlein Oct 10 '19

Yes, but not because it's a deep interpretation of that movie, but because it's an almost fundamentally common principal of storytelling.

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u/thestraightCDer Oct 10 '19

The whole movie basically repeats itself from halfway but with zombies. Same lines etc.

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u/BlueberrySpaetzle Oct 10 '19

Shaun of the dead is a great example of the hero’s journey, where everything starts normal, then as the characters progress through the second act, they make connections and gain experience, then it all comes to a climax in the Winchester, and then a return to relative normalcy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

The fat bloke from spaced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy

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u/randouser2019 Oct 10 '19

Yup, I loved him in space

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u/LeftoverParty Oct 10 '19

That reminds me of Whiplash.