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The Treatment

Edgar Wright

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2007

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Shaun of the Dead started as a satire of zombie films but shifted into making points about friendship and loss.  Hot Fuzz parodies the 80's action film and Bruckheimer excess.  British director and co-writer Edgar Wright (UK TV series Spaced, 'fake' trailer segment in Grindhouse) discusses the weight of comedy - or laughs it off.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:13.5

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

0:18.4

Now, we all know director Edgar Wright from this film's

0:21.8

Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

0:23.2

But if you want to see where the seeds

0:24.8

of those movies were shown,

0:26.4

you should take a look at the incredible series based,

0:28.9

which had what we would call here a two-season run

0:31.4

on British television in the late 90s

0:33.5

in the early part of the 21st century

0:35.0

and has now been collected finally

0:37.1

on DVD that we can play here in what we like to call Region 1, because it's the best region for DVDs.

0:44.3

Edgar is here with us. Edgar, first of all, thanks again for coming back to do the show.

0:47.7

Hey, no worries. Thanks for having me.

0:49.6

And the other thing about this show is that it makes more pop culture references than we've made in the history of the treatment.

0:55.6

So that's no small feat as well.

0:58.5

That's funny.

0:59.3

I think sort of that's something that is really ingrained in the characters.

1:06.0

And the thing that why the TV show that me and Simon and Jessica did that was very personal to us,

1:11.2

is it did feel more than even the films we've done like an extension of ourselves.

1:15.9

And it's definitely, I think, growing up on a certain type of pop culture,

1:20.6

be it video games, TV, music, films,

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