Manhattan or Casablanca? I suggested.
Hadn't noticed before - there's an aural history of police sirens right at the start of the film.
It's a beautiful partnership between Edgar Wright and editor Chris Dickens - neither of them individually have produced anything quite so startling as the way this is set up and edited. I guess Chris's next film Slumdog Millionaire, which won him the Oscar, then propelled him into a different career; 'additional' editor Jonathan Amos then came in for Wright's next film Scott Pilgrim vs the World in 2010, with Paul Machliss. As I remind myself every time I review it, Dickens received no awards for this at all, which is an oversight of epic proportions - a Samuel L. Bronston oversight.
Essentially, it's a love story between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Love the scene in which Pegg walks into the hotel and that record's playing weirdly, and she says 'You've always been here'... and then the banter over the crossword - 'Fascist' and 'Hag'. And 'If you wanna be a big copper in a small town, fuck off up the Model Village.'
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