"Hot Fuzz"

Hot Fuzz

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The movie "Hot Fuzz", covers the story of a police officer who is moved from London to "Sanford", a fictional town set in rural countryside. The contrasts between his antics in London and Sanford are massive. For example, when Nicholas, the protagonist played by Simon Pegg, is in London, the editing is fast-paced with lots of frantic diagetic sounds of shouting and violence. This changes when he re-locates to Sanford, as the sounds of violence are replaced with sounds of wildlife and peaceful, tranquil village life.

The movie aims to play off the stereotypes laid down by dramatised American action films, for example Bad Boys and Point Break. The director of Hot Fuzz uses similar techniques but in a satirical way, as shown in the picture above. Whereas in these American movies the protagonist is regularly portrayed in slow-motion effects, always being the hero/god like figure, Hot Fuzz uses this technique of over-dramatising almost every scene. Another example of this would be the excessively violent scenes towards the end of the movie pictured above.