Hot Fuzz

I will be discussing whether the film “Hot Fuzz” could be categorized as a post-modern film. I will talk about the intertextuality, conventional vs. postmodern films, and the way in which is challenges the text to audience relationship.

From watching this film and looking at the references within the film, I found there are a lot more then I first thought. The first one I find is the one to the films, “3 colours of red/yellow/blue” films made in Italy directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski in the 1990s. The 3 colour films are high culture films, where as Hot Fuzz and the other film in the 3 Cornetto trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, are low culture films. As this film if part of a trilogy, there are many references to the first film, Shaun of the Dead, such as “Never taken a short cut before?”  And “Do you want anything from the shop?” Both of these quotes have been repeated in the films a number of times. Other films like bad boys 2, and the tv show He man, With “by the power of Grayskull” being repeated by both Sergeant Angel and Danny in Hot Fuzz.

Some people say this film is postmodern, although it does have elements of being a convention film, having the film in order, unlike pulp fiction. It may be conventional as it has a story, a police officer going from the big city full of crime to a small village, where crime is not as high. Genre could challenge whether Hot Fuzz is postmodern, for the reason as it is unclear to exactly what genre the film is. Throughout it’s a mixture of films from comedy to action and police and crime, this then links to the music used within Hot Fuzz, using Fire by The crazy world of Arthur Brown and Blockbuster by The Sweet; giving this film a more postmodern look, having a very mixed soundtrack.