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3->''"Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget."''
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5Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974 in Poole, England) is a British filmmaker.
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7He is known for making stylish, genre-busting films, usually working with Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost, and for making films that function equally well as both [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] and [[ChekhovsArmoury carefully crafted]] stories. He is JustForFun/OneOfUs, a very notable example of a film geek-cum-director à la Creator/QuentinTarantino and Creator/KevinSmith, both of whom he is close friends with. He also cites the films of Creator/JackieChan as one of his influences to become a filmmaker.
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9!!Directed:
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11* ''Film/DeadRight'' - ''Film/HotFuzz'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_i1hZD-rWY&ab_channel=smirkingskull without the budget]] and with even more {{genre savv|y}}iness.
12* ''A Fistful of Fingers'' - A low-budget Creator/ClintEastwood parody.
13* ''Asylum'' - Short-lived BritCom about an assortment of odd characters trapped in an asylum in the quiet English countryside. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Sadly never released on home media.]]
14* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' - Surreal {{Britcom}} about a writer and a comic book artist living in a flat. Brimming with references to other TV shows and movies.
15* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' - Guy tries to rescue his friends from zombies. He fails. [[spoiler:Mostly.]]
16* ''Film/HotFuzz'' - Skilled cop is sent to a sleepy town where no murders, but many [[BlatantLies accidents]] happen.
17* ''Don't'' - A [[/index]][[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] from the movie ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''.[[index]]
18* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' - An [[TheFilmOfTheBook adaptation]] of the comic by Bryan Lee O'Malley. His first non-British film (shot in Toronto).
19* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' - A group of friends from childhood reunite to finish their epic pub crawl only to find that aliens have infiltrated their old town.
20* ''Film/BabyDriver'' - His first American film, shot (and set) in UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, Georgia. Takes MickeyMousing to an extreme. Every scene is completely synced to the music, even the background noise!
21* ''The Sparks Brothers'' - His first documentary, covering the career of pop/rock band Music/{{Sparks}}.
22* ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' - A psychological thriller about a young girl, passionate in fashion design, who is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it appears, and time seems to fall apart with shady consequences…
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24You can now vote for your favourite Edgar Wright film [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/Sandbox/BestFilmEdgarWright HERE!]]
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26[[/index]]
27!!Wrote:
28* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'' - He has a writing credit along with Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/JoeCornish.
29* ''Film/AntMan1'' - He was going to direct, but then left due to CreativeDifferences.
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31!!Acting Roles:
32* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' - Alistair Boorswan (voice)
33* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/Sing2'' - Additional voices (voice)
34* ''WesternAnimation/{{Digman}}''
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36!!Produced:
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38* ''Film/AttackTheBlock''
39* ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'' - Executive Producer
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42!!Tropes associated with his career include:
43* AdvertisingByAssociation:
44** ''Film/{{Sightseers}}'' is "From the makers of ''Film/HotFuzz'', ''Film/{{Paul}}'' & ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''". Of course, Wright only {{produce|rs}}d this film, not wrote and directed it. Note that ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' isn't on that list because, though complete, hadn't been released yet and that ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' isn't because the film was targeted at British audiences, the genre of the film is much more like the ''Film/ThreeFlavoursCornettoTrilogy'', RuleOfThree, and the marketing department may have wanted to noncommittally suggest that Creator/SimonPegg and Nick Frost would be in it.
45** With ''Film/BabyDriver'' becoming Wright’s first major commercial hit as director, particularly outside the UK, ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' has naturally been promoted as “From the director of ''Baby Driver''”, despite the dissimilarity in the two films’ genres.
46* AffectionateParody: The ''Film/ThreeFlavoursCornettoTrilogy'' is a trio of these for [[Film/ShaunOfTheDead zombie films]], [[Film/HotFuzz action movies]], and [[Film/TheWorldsEnd sci-fi flicks]]. Much to his fandom and co-workers' chagrin though, being famous for these movies made general audiences label him as a parodist. This mostly stopped after reevaluations clarified that those films were legitimate entries in their respective genres that just happened to be comedies, and Wright had made a name for himself away from overt send-ups.
47* CreatorThumbprint: Synchronized head turns, unconventional transitions, smash zooms, whip pans, extremely concise BuffySpeak, heavy-handed {{Foreshadowing}}, ridiculous amounts of details in every shot, dramatic close-ups and shots of mundane things...
48* CreepyTwins: ''Shaun of the Dead'', ''Hot Fuzz'', ''Scott Pilgrim'' and ''The World's End'' all feature menacing twins as minor antagonists (''Shaun'' and ''Fuzz'' even use the same pair of twins). ''World's End'' even provides the page quote:
49-->'''Sam:''' Just because they're twins doesn't automatically make them creepy!\
50'''Gary:''' It does a little bit...
51* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Film/LastNightInSoho'' is his darkest film to date, being a straightforward PsychologicalHorror with none of his trademark humor and plenty of [[{{Anvilicious}} blunt social commentary]] on the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance rampant misogyny]] of TheSixties.
52* {{Foreshadowing}}: His style is foreshadowing that's designed in such a way that you miss it the first time, but it's blatantly obvious on rewatch.
53* FreezeFrameBonus: His films demand repeat viewings, if only to catch all the blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments.
54* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Which results in his films being great examples of RewatchBonus.
55* GenreBusting:
56** ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': RomanticComedy Zombie film, or "rom-com-zom" as he put it.
57** ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': A ComingOfAge RomanticComedy Kung-Fu Musical InTheStyleOf anime and old style video games.
58** ''Film/BabyDriver'': A RomanticComedy CarFu Action Heist Musical. Often considered a ballet with guns and cars.
59** ''Film/LastNightInSoho'': A DarkerAndEdgier PsychologicalHorror about the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance rampant misogyny]] of TheSixties with virtually no comedy relief. It is also his first film to have a female protagonist.
60* {{Gorn}}: ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', ''Film/HotFuzz'' and ''Don't'' have this. ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' avoids it altogether giving into the style of the comic book. ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has what you could call gorn in the [[AlienBlood form of blue robot blood]] which is "more like ink" - there isn't much actual human blood in the film.
61* LogoJoke: The Creator/{{Universal}} sequence in ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World''? Not the regular one.
62* MickeyMousing: There's always at least one scene in his movies where everything is timed to the music. ''Baby Driver'' takes this up to eleven and does it for most of the movie.
63* MundaneMadeAwesome: Loves treating simple tasks like filing paperwork with the same amount of fast-paced cinematic ecstasy as he would a car chase.
64* OffscreenTeleportation[=/=]OffscreenRealityWarp: Almost every character written by him can do this. Most notably, all of the characters in Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld and Film/HotFuzz.
65* SignatureStyle: Creatively stylized, GenreBusting films with at least a bit of satire and clever editing. [[GenreDeconstruction genres are often deconstructed]] but also work as straight-forward stories. Main characters are likable whether they're a NiceGuy or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. He homages clips from films into his own. He also takes old fashioned cliches into something overblown and fresh. Main action is not super realistic but creates a awesome movie experience. Also at least one MickeyMousing scene where the action ties into the rhythem of the soundtrack, especially in ''Baby Driver''.
66* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVsSeriousness: His movies mainly exist for WorldOfHam style entertainment so they could lean towards the silliness side. With that said, there is enough character drama in his films to not lean too close to one side.
67* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: It's pretty clear his movies lean a little more towards the idealistic end.
68* WorldOfHam: Every character in his films are basically live-action cartoon characters.

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