NOTE: I've only watched the second an third chapters in the Cornetto Trilogy with Hot Fuzz, and The World's End and don't know who's to credit more because both Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright co-wrote them. But for the sake of this article, I will treat them both as geniuses meaning they both the get the same amount of credit meaning this article will highlight Edgar Wright as a mastermind. Let's begin...
5. A Snappy Opening
After the first five minutes of Ant-Man, expect that most (if not all) attending audience members will be hooked on what the film has to offer. Knowing Wright's non-stop style where a dull moment is near impossible to identify, he'll ditch the clique forty-five minute origin story for something more unique and intriguing. I don't know Ant-Man's back-story down to a tee, but what I'm certain of is that if our main protagonist is a burglar who runs into shrinking canisters and an Ant-Man suit created by the most popular incarnation of the hero who in this version is played by a veteran American actor, and redemption is a confirmed theme in the movie, then it looks like a flavour of The World's End in that we might have a fairly unlikable hero to begin with who we'll end up feeling for a bit more will indeed be on sight. And that can never be a fault in a film.
4. Solid Supporting Characters/ Actors
While not exactly ground-breaking, the supporting characters in both Hot Fuzz and The World's End were great ingredients to make the environments feel genuine and interesting with wonderful actors and actresses to pull them off. It proves that while 3-Dimensional is great, you don't always need a character with layers upon layers of back-story to make them come across as lived in. Take Timothy Dalton's Skinner as the main villain in Hot Fuzz: The film is a homage/ parody to buddy-cop films whilst tremendously standing on its own two feet, and Skinner is a walking homage to action villains with the clapping after the protagonist makes his grand deduction, tormenting the hero by smiling at crime scenes and proving them wrong, but Dalton made you some how fall in love with this guy and impatiently wait to see what his next move was. The way I see it, a character is a skin, and the actor gives it some skeleton.
3. Awesome, Crazy, Relentless Action
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