Producers and Audiences 7. British film vs. American Film – Hot Fuzz

Objective Understand and be able to explain how British films appeal to an American market through the use of the conventions of American films

Images of Britain - Gloucestershire Traditional cottages Picturesque Idyllic Swans and geese just out of shot...

Images of Britain - London Overcast slightly Familiar Traditional tourist attraction – Houses of Parliament and Big Ben London double-decker bus Taxi cab

What Edgar Wright did Edgar Wright fused traditional English settings and stereotypes – the village, the pub, the country folk – with something much more ‘familiar’ to an American audience... Action-thriller films...

Films like...Point Break The scene where Danny can’t shoot his dad is a direct copy of (or homage to) a similar scene in Point Break where Bigelow (played by Keanu Reeves) cannot shoot Bodhi (played by Patrick Swayze) and instead empties his pistol into the air.

Films like... Bad Boys II (you ain’t seen Bad Boys II?)

Was this successful? Budget £8 million Box-office $80,573,774 (£57,552,696) You decide... After this, Edgar Wright went on to make Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Scott Pilgrim didn’t do so well though... Budget $60 million; box-office $47 million