Major Themes, Influences, and Artistic Style
Edgar Wright's Spaced is the work that jump started his career. Wright likes to use references to popular culture — particularly but not exclusively to science fiction and horror films, comic books and video games. The series Spaced is also noted for its regular references to recreational drug use, from its title onwards. According to Simon Pegg, the series Northern Exposure and its frequent use of fantasy sequences was "one of the key influences" in the creation of the show. In fact, he and Jessica Hynes pitched the show to LWT as "a cross between The Simpsons, The X-Files and Northern Exposure." Spaced has a distinctive cinematic style set by director Edgar Wright and is shot with a single camera. In addition to borrowing liberally from the visual language of film (in particular genre films), it has particular stylistic mannerisms like the recurring device of scene changes occurring in the middle of a pan. The series' atmosphere is also established by the use of a particular flavor of contemporary dance music on its soundtrack.
The movie Shaun of the Dead is notable for Wright's kinetic directing style, and its references to other movies, television shows and video games. In this way, it is similar to the British television sitcom Spaced, which both Pegg and Wright worked on in similar roles. The film was inspired by the episode "Art" of the television program Spaced, written by Pegg (along with his writing partner and co-star Jessica Stevenson) and directed by Wright, in which the character of Tim (Pegg), under the influence of amphetamine and the PlayStation video game Resident Evil 2, hallucinates that he's fighting off a zombie invasion
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