Simon pegg police movie8/5/2023 ![]() ![]() I've never seen the whole of Date Movie or Epic Movie, but I've seen enough of Date Movie, where somebody's doing an impression of Napoleon Dynamite, and it just reminds me of when impressionists like Bobby Davro would be on TV doing an impression of Dame Edna Everage and just doing his own material, and you think, you can't just do that, can you? You can't do an impression of a comedian. But the recent things like Scary Movie - I loved Scream and I was already thinking, how can you do a spoof of something that's already self-referential? It doesn't make any sense. As soon as Leslie Nielsen starts mugging and stops being straight, it goes south rapidly. Naked Gun, the first one, but it all goes downhill from 2 1/2. I love the Zucker brothers' films - Airplane!, Top Secret and Police Squad! - are my formative experiences. And in the same way, there's no real precedent for a Joel Silver-Jerry Bruckheimer type film. It's like they're saying, "This might be a hit" or "Maybe this will go down well." What we did was totally out of affection for the genre: less from the idea that we sat down and asked, "What shall we spoof next?" more of "What would we like to see that doesn't get made in this country?" There've obviously been British horror films, but when we were writing Shaun, we felt that there was nothing in the UK that was really akin to what Peter Jackson was doing, or what Sam Raimi, even what the Coen brothers were doing. And then as they get further on and you get to Spaceballs, then it's just kind of contrived. Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. I would hope that this has more in common with Mel Brooks and what Tarantino does. And now it sort of feels like, "Which genre next?" But it totally comes from affection. Is there any genre that you won't pastiche? It's all very affectionate, there's no inherent criticism of any genre.ĮW: When we wrote it, it didn't feel like, "Oh, we've done zombies, so let's do cops." In a weird way, writing this was like we were trying to make a complete departure. JS: You obviously watched a lot of those films and had a lot of myths on your television screen while outside was pretty. ![]()
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