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** [[TrasemarkFavoriteFood Cornettos]].
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** The zombies only seem to get really active when they're in groups. Recall that Ed has to throw a stone at Mary before him and Shaun get her attention and the zombified Pete just stands in the shower whilst clueless Shaun has a one-way conversation with him. Also, it's never entirely ruled out that the thing at the door ''wasn't'' an actual drunk.
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** The zombies only seem to get really active when they're in groups. Recall that Ed has to throw a stone at Mary before him he and Shaun get her attention and the zombified Pete just stands in the shower whilst clueless Shaun has a one-way conversation with him. Also, it's never entirely ruled out that the thing at the door ''wasn't'' an actual drunk.
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**The ball comes flying at Shaun from offscreen, so we don't know it was thrown. It's supposed to be an echo of when the kid punts the ball at Shaun earlier in the film, so most likely he kicked it. I'd say it's well within the film's established reality that a) Zombie-kid retained his habit of kicking around a soccer ball or b) a well-timed stumble caused him to kick it without meaning to.
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*** Not even new CGI either. Death Becomes Her did it 12 years earlier (I remember seeing a making of to how it was done).
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**One premise of this movie is that people are pretty zombielike already. Remember all the shots at the beginning? The horde of teenagers bopping in unison to headphones? Mary scanning groceries with a vacant expression? That kid mechanically bouncing his soccer ball? Number one, after being turned they don't act too much differently, and Shaun's morning routine is not disrupted enough to grab his attention, even with the bloodstained corner store and zombie kid throwing a ball at his head. Number two, Shaun isn't the only one to be so caught up in his own trouble that he strolls right through the apocalypse, automatically repeating the same things he does every day. And in the end, zombies (Noel included) are proven to do very nicely in the sort of wage-slave jobs that regular people were doing all day without thinking before Z-Day.
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** I always assumed that she didn't know, at least not in any lucid sense. She just picked up a random bunch flowers, saw the gift tag and due to the confusion caused by the onset of zombiefication, assumed they were for her. That this was in fact the case was just a bittersweet coincidence.
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* Since the title of the movie is a parody of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', shouldn't Shaun's name be spelled "Shawn"? Is there something about English names that I'm missing here?
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* Since the title of the movie is a parody of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', shouldn't Shaun's name be spelled "Shawn"? Is there something about English names that I'm missing here?
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*** Quite definitely CGI - it's actually shown in one of the SFX extras on the DVD. The actress is flesh-and-blood, the hole is an effect added (with some other effects, like blood and entrails and such) in post-production.
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** The film had lot's of visual and sound effects to establish the zombie mood leading up to the outbreak that may or may not have been actual evidence of anything yet. Mentioned above the zombie that knocked on the pub door may well have just been a drunk, the pidgeon eater may have just been a crazy homeless lady. This troper will attest that would hardly have been the weirdest thing they'd seen in London in RealLife
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** It might have been CGI; having the actress with [[ChromaKey a green spot on her back in front of a green backdrop]], then shooting that independent from the actual scene with Nick and Simon, which is then shot on its own with their reactions. Or she might have been (surprisingly good) CGI altogether.
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**** Yeah, but presumably Shaun still wrote 'From Shaun' under that.
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* How did they do the girl with a gaping hole (the one that is perforated with a pipe)? It's not just a wound - it's a ''hole'' - you can clearly see Shaun and Ed through it, could they even do that with CGI? It's a single shot, and her movement seem too fluid for a puppet, and the hole is right through her abdonement, so it doesn't look like a prop or make-up either. So, how did they do it?
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*** It didn't. The cashier at the flower shop asks him if he wants a card saying, "To a wonderful Mum" or "Pow! Super Mum!", meaning the card was printed before Shaun got it.
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** Maybe it quickly staggered off after some of the other pigeons. Or maybe the first wave of zombies were capable of being runners if they suddenly had need to be, and it's just the second wave of infections that were more traditional shamblers.
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** Maybe it said "To a wonderful Mum" in ''Shaun's handwriting''.
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*** Either way, was probably either dead (haha) easy to buy in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse that would have significantly thinned out the population and thus left the real estate market in somewhat of a glut. Hell, that's assuming they even bothered to buy it, if whoever did own it got eaten and there were no immediate heirs to take over, Shaun may just keep living there without bothering to establish ownership. In the new world, possession of a home that no one else is contesting ownership of is probably 9/10ths of the law.
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** I had the same thought, but presumably they also had "From Shaun" on them. Which is still a bit of a stretch, but she's a bit doddery, so hey.
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* How did Barbara know the flowers were for her? She only found them in a bin, and the card only said, "To a wonderful Mum"... which could be anyone's mum.
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*** Never mind that, the zombies are able to break the window and drag David out of the pub. If a few of them can haul a struggling, fully functional adult human out of a window, one zombie can pick up a ball.
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*** An extra on the DVD clarifies this - they did follow him. He hid in a trashbin until the zombies walked by, however the final undead did notice him running back the way that they all came.
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*** No, it's definitely a rental. When Shaun bumps into Yvonne the first time, before everything gets going, he seems surprised that she's bought a house in the local area, whilst she seems surprised he's still renting a place. Presumably Pete just doesn't evict Ed himself because he expects Shaun to man up and do it himself.
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*** Any number of things, really -- it got crashed into and wrecked in the chaos, it was nicked by some opportunistic car thieves who didn't mind tangling with the zombie in the back, or something similar to the explanation about the house above; post-apocalypse it was recovered by whatever authorities were in charge of that kind of thing (since someone would have to remove all the abandoned cars from the streets in order to clear them) and it would be easy to check who the owner was through the license plate), Zombie!Philip somehow removed from it and, since as heir Shaun is legally the rightful owner, returned to him to sell or keep however he pleased. For all we know it's sitting outside Shaun and Liz' house as they speak at the end.
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** Plus, a certain spelling of a name in Britain as opposed to America might be preferred or more common, but it's hardly a set-in-concrete rule or unbreakable law of the universe or anything; Shaun's parents might simply have preferred that spelling when naming him. For all we know Shaun might be one of those people who constantly have to correct people when they try to spell his name because they're used to the more common versions
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** Plus, a certain spelling of a name in Britain as opposed to America might be preferred or more common, but it's hardly a set-in-concrete rule or unbreakable law of the universe or anything; Shaun's parents might simply have preferred that spelling when naming him. For all we know Shaun might be one of those people who constantly have to correct people when they try to spell his name because they're used to the more common versions
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** In that vein, what happened to his step fahter's Jaguar?
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** In that vein, what happened to his step fahter's father's Jaguar?
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** I think that's almost definitely the implication.
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* If the ("Don't say the zed-word!") followed Shaun back to the Winchester after he tried to lose them and therefore knew where he was, why did they wait until he opened the window shade to attack? What the hell were they waiting for?
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* If the zombies ("Don't say the zed-word!") followed Shaun back to the Winchester after he tried to lose them and therefore knew where he was, why did they wait until he opened the window shade to attack? What the hell were they waiting for?
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* If the [[strike: zombies]] ("Don't say the zed-word!") followed Shaun back to the Winchester after he tried to lose them and therefore knew where he was, why did they wait until he opened the window shade to attack? What the hell were they waiting for?
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*** This Troper admits his negligence; [[DidNotDoTheResearch I forgot about those details.]]
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* I'm just throwing this out there but could Shaun and Liz's Sunday plans conversation in the epilogue, about going 'to the Phoenix for a roast', actually be a sly clue that the (renamed) Winchester has risen from the ashes and is still, despite everything, Shaun's favourite haunt?
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* I'm just throwing this out there but could Shaun and Liz's Sunday plans conversation in the epilogue, about going 'to the Phoenix for a roast', actually be a sly clue that the (renamed) Winchester has risen from the ashes and is still, despite everything, Shaun's favourite haunt?haunt?
** I think that's almost definitely the implication.
** I think that's almost definitely the implication.
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* Since the title of the movie is a parody of [[DawnOfTheDead Dawn Of The Dead]], shouldn't Shaun's name be spelled "Shawn"? Is there something about English names that I'm missing here?
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* Since the title of the movie is a parody of [[DawnOfTheDead Dawn Of The Dead]], ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'', shouldn't Shaun's name be spelled "Shawn"? Is there something about English names that I'm missing here?
