"Type cool cops":
both the film and the parody

Perhaps, to begin with, you need to explain the meaning of the title of the article. Edgar Wright himself admitted that he wanted to create both a “serious” film in the genre of “police action movie” and a parody of this genre. What happened, site CenterMovie , for example, he called the most successful part of the trilogy “Blood and Ice Cream”. The main characters were still played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, familiar to the audience from "Zombies named Sean" (the first part of "Blood and Ice Cream") and the series "Fucking."

The film presents everything that is saturated with modern cultural and near-cultural space: here is a “cool superhero-policeman” who, because of his perfection, does not let other London cops work, and “conspiracy theory”, and perfectionism, and building an “ideal society” by anyone means. And he presents it in a mock and even some “inverted” guise. In fact, in a regular action movie and detective story, the hero encounters various versions of the incident that he is investigating, and dismisses the most stupid and unlikely ones, eventually revealing the terrible truth - economic interests, corrupt officials, dirty politics… And in the film by Edgar Wright it’s just the opposite: Nicholas Angel persistently searches for evidence revealing the very economic interests and corrupt authorities of the village, but the actor’s death is actually due to the fact that he played poorly Ms Shakespeare’s tragedy. Someone is killed due to the fact that he is too untidy, does not monitor his clothes or the state of the territory in front of the house. In the final, the hero accidentally (!) Discovers a whole “cemetery” of all these problematic people, among whom were even children. The purpose of such massacres is the same - at all costs to maintain the image of the village as the best in England.

Sandford’s mockup, located not far from the village itself, is endowed with symbolic meaning. Sandford himself appears as a kind of model in which underwater ideality and attractiveness are hidden underwater mines - and in the most literal sense: an old mine laid under a police station, finally explodes.

At the same time, this film cannot be attributed to ordinary parodies. At Sandford, people are massively dying, and those that are still alive are in constant fear and tension. The killings are shown in a rather naturalistic spirit - blood, suffering, pain. In the finale, both the hero himself and the carefree village policemen conceptualize what is happening right in front of them: the actions of the “Community Guardians” turn out to be much more terrible than “ordinary” terrorism, banditry and corruption, and by no means can be compared with those “ with the "horror" horrors that they used to watch in Hollywood action movies. Innocent people were killed, so to speak, for noble reasons.

There is a lot of humor in the film, it is “black”, with elements of violence… and at the same time - typically “English”, which created him a good reputation among the audience. For the “American” humor, Hollywood, is very stupid, and often - totally stupid, but here is a pleasant outlet. In this, by the way, you can praise other British comedies - they perfectly "keep the mark."

A significant part of the comic situations in the film is created thanks to the image of Nicholas Angel - the “right”, honest and stubborn metropolitan cop who, abandoned by the authorities to the mercy of fate, is forced to give up some of his principles, for example, to begin to use weapons intensively. In a strange way, his closest friend and companion is Danny - a stupid rural policeman, daddy’s son, it is not clear why he got a job in the police. Having met with Angel, Danny also revises his views on life and realizes that Hollywood films about police officers are one thing, and the reality is completely different. You can interpret the duet of Angel and Danny as follows: here they encounter a typical English gentleman - educated, practical, cynical and some kind of "rigid" - and an "American layman", good-natured, full-bodied, not particularly burdened with intellect and educated in the Hollywood mass culture. True, comicism could not have done here: Simon Pegg, who played the London police officer, had to train with three coaches for a long time to lose weight, and Nick Frost, who played Danny, had to watch twenty Hollywood action movies to “get used to the role” (however, only one looked - “Bad guys 2”, references to which repeatedly appear in the film). It turned out that both types are equally imperfect as individuals (well, almost the same: for us personally, the police Angel seems to be a positive character, in which the flaws are only a continuation of the merits; you can’t say about Danny), so they complement each other perfectly.

As a result, it can be stated that “Type of Cool Pointing” is a rather smart, cynical, tough and merciless film. British culture experts say that this is all English humor: to laugh at his jokes, you have to really dislike people. Meanwhile, however, the film shows us that there is no reason to not love them.

Andrey Zhelyazkov