straight outta sandford
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Further moments of joy and beauty: last night's free tickets to the NZ première of Hot Fuzz, a cop action comedy (I guess you could call it) that's the latest from the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright/Nick Frost team of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead fame. (Spaced not so much, in fact barely at all, in NZ, unless you know someone with the DVDs: if you do, persuade them to lend it to you, although in many cases you may have difficulty stopping them). The event was sponsored by MySpace, and the film was presented by Peter Jackson, who has a cameo, and the lads themselves, who seemed sweetly baffled by the rapturous reception both before and after the screening. Film itself was a riot, with too much going on to take in on one viewing – as usual the lads had great fun with multiple layers of pastiche, and particularly impressive was the way they managed to combine the classic buddy-action movie (with all the undercurrents of homoeroticism that the genre entails) with the 'lone enlightened innocent in a hotbed of crazies' theme of The Wicker Man (and noteably, Edward Woodward plays a feature role in Hot Fuzz, batting, as it were, for the other team).
All this and a free doughnut too! And incidentally, many thanks to my sweet husband, who arrived with a folding chair he'd picked up from the Warewhare that lunchtime, so I wouldn't have to stand in the queue for nearly two hours.
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