Shaun of the Dead

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Movie
German title Shaun of the Dead
Original title Shaun of the Dead
Country of production United Kingdom ,
France
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Edgar Wright
script Edgar Wright,
Simon Pegg
production Nira Park
music Dan Mudford ,
Pete Woodhead
camera David M. Dunlap
cut Chris Dickens
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals

Shaun of the Dead , a 2004 film by British director Edgar Wright , is a mixture of comedy and horror film and at the same time an homage to classic zombie films . The title parodies the classic horror film Dawn of the Dead from 1978.

action

Shaun, 29, a salesman in an electrical goods store, is dissatisfied with his life. His girlfriend Liz has just dumped him because he spends too much time in his favorite pub , the Winchester, and especially too much time with his roommate Ed, a lazy, unemployed petty drug dealer who, in the opinion of Shaun's second roommate, dapper clerk Pete, is a bad influence on Shaun.

One day Shaun's hometown of London is overrun by zombies, initially creeping, then explosively - which, although in the middle of it, he does not notice at first. After the rapidly growing number of zombies can no longer be controlled with bare hands, Shaun and Ed decide to seek refuge in the only safe place they can think of: the Winchester . The two first attack Shaun's mother and - rather against Shaun's will - his stepfather Philip, who has already been bitten by zombies, and drive together to see Shaun's ex-girlfriend Liz. She joins the group with her roommate Dianne and her friend David.

Philip, shortly after making up with his stepson in his final moments as a living person, becomes a zombie and has to be left behind by the group. The remaining six fight their way through the streets of London on foot using various tactics. First they fight their way through the gardens of the houses, then they behave like zombies themselves in order to be able to get unmolested across the street to Winchester . Once there, the group is quickly besieged by the zombies and eventually decimated, despite strong resistance. Shaun's mother was previously bitten but kept it a secret; she is shot by Shaun despite scruples. David gets too close to a window after an argument and is pulled outside by zombies and torn to pieces. His girlfriend Dianne then storms outside among the zombies and disappears. Ed is bitten by Pete, who is also mutated. That leaves only Shaun and Liz, who reconcile and are saved at the last moment by the incoming army.

The last setting of the film shows that Ed - bitten in the course of the film of zombies and then itself become a - Shaun is kept on a chain in the tool shed and there, just as before, his time in front of a game console spends.

More scenes

There are three more scenes on the DVD version, which were not filmed but presented as a comic. In the first, Ed tells how he is hidden under the stairs in the basement, after Shaun and Liz leave him at his request, so that the zombies cannot find him and tear him apart.

The second scene is about Liz's friend Dianne. She was not killed by the zombies, but climbed a tree and waited there - with David's leg as food - until the zombie plague was over, drove to her parents and occasionally still has contact with Liz and Shaun.

The third scene shows how Shaun was only able to shake off the undead with ease when he wanted to distract them so that the others could get into the pub safely and undetected by the zombies, who otherwise would have followed them through the broken window and hid and was spotted by a zombie walking in the back of the crowd when he returned to the pub, whereupon you could guess that he would turn back towards Shaun to follow him and all the other zombies would notice.

background

Shaun of the Dead is the first film in the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy (such as: Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy ), which was conceived by the writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright . The films in this trilogy show considerable amounts of blood and the eating of a cornetto ice cream by at least one of the protagonists. In the second film, Hot Fuzz - Two deviated professionals , not only do many actors reappear, there are also some allusions to the predecessor. The third part in the series is The World's End .

Wright, Pegg, Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes ("Yvonne") worked together on the series Spaced , which is alluded to several times in the film. In the episode Art , the main character played by Simon Pegg already competed against zombies in dream sequences.

Shaun of the Dead is characterized by innumerable film quotes from the zombie genre, above all the works of George A. Romero , who himself described the film as "sensational". Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright then had a cameo as zombies in Romero's film Land of the Dead . Still, Shaun of the Dead is n't a pure parody of the genre; so the relationship between Shaun and Liz plays at least as important a role as the tagline A Romantic Comedy. With zombies. makes clear.

In addition to the genre-typical film music , the film features two songs by the rock group Queen : Don't Stop Me Now and You're My Best Friend . Even the play If You Leave Me Now the band Chicago is briefly from the jukebox in Winchester played. There is also a piece of music by the group Goblin from the 1978 film Zombie , which accompanied the Romero film in the European version.

Shaun of the Dead was also a success outside of Great Britain: in the USA it had sales of 3.3 million US dollars on the opening weekend alone and was eighth in the box office . At over $ 13 million, the film grossed about twice as much in the US as in the country of production.

synchronization

The synchronization of the film was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH . The dialogue book was written by Oliver Rohrbeck , who was also responsible for the dialogue direction.

role actor German speaker
Shaun Simon Pegg Michael Deffert
Ed Nick Frost Olaf Reichmann
Liz Kate Ashfield Tanja Geke
Dianne Lucy Davis Cathlen Gawlich
David Dylan Moran Stefan Krause
Barbara Penelope Wilton Regine Albrecht
Philip Bill Nighy Frank Glaubrecht
Pete Peter Serafinowicz Viktor Neumann
Yvonne Jessica Hynes Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Declan Martin Freeman Oliver Rohrbeck
Noel Rafe Spall Dennis Schmidt-Foss

reception

The Belgian artist Yatkuu recreated the Winchester Pub in 2011 using Lego. Pictures of it received such a positive response on Flickr that the manufacturer Lego had a vote on the Internet whether the figures should be included in the range.

The 2011 Spanish-Cuban horror comedy Juan of the Dead refers to Shaun of the Dead in its title .

Reviews

The film has received mostly positive reviews. On the English-language film rating portal Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 91% positive reviews (out of 172) with the consensus that Shaun of the Dead was "a damn good zombie film with a lot of joke".

“Weird film, staged with an obvious passion for the zombie genre, without getting lost in the game with quotations. Without excessive use of fake blood, he definitely develops a certain independence. "

- Lexicon of international film

“While other parodies of Romero's trilogy and its stragglers draw their comedy mainly from the behavior of the zombies [...] Wright is more amused by the behavior and reactions of Shaun and his friends. [...] Wright and his co-author Simon Pegg target the typical behavior of unsuspecting men and women around 30. "

- Sascha Westphal from the Frankfurter Rundschau

“Which great role model Shaun of the Dead (2004) is bowing to with the title is obvious, only the zombies are not slaves of consumption, as in Romero's film, but all pub-goers in a small English town. Ultimately, in addition to the horror film, it is also a thematic predilection for critical social realism that is often associated with British cinema, which is also poked fun at. And of course the whole thing has a lot of fun in store for the audience. "

- Critic.de

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Release certificate for Shaun of the Dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 580 K).
  3. ↑ Simon Pegg Talks About His Next Edgar Wright Movie ( December 30, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) on The Big Picture, September 9, 2008 (accessed December 29, 2008)
  4. ↑ Box office / business for Shaun of the Dead in the IMDb (accessed December 29, 2008)
  5. ↑ Shaun of the Dead. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Help Make the Shaun of the Dead Legos Diorama Legit . Accessed December 23, 2014
  7. ↑ Simon Pegg Pushes for Shaun of the Dead Lego on Conan O'Brien Show , accessed March 31, 2012
  8. ↑ B. Alan Orange: EXCLUSIVE: Alejandro Brugue's Talks 'Juan of the Dead' DVD , MovieWeb, August 14, 2012
  9. ↑ " Shaun of the Dead cleverly balances scares and witty satire, making for a bloody good zombie movie with loads of wit. ", Shaun of the Dead Movie Reviews on rottentomatoes.com (accessed February 16, 2010)
  10. ↑ Shaun of the Dead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  11. ↑ Shaun of the Dead - Reviews. In: film-zeit.de. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014 ; accessed on May 12, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Brief review on Critic.de (accessed April 15, 2013)