Shaun of the Dead was fearlessly British -- except that one time.
When Shaun of the Dead came to America, it had already become a success in the U.K. The movie, written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright , starring Pegg, and directed by Wright, hit theaters there nearly six months before it came to the U.S., and was instantly beloved. So it stands to reason that there wasn't much Pegg and Wright -- already famous in the U.K. for their sitcom Spaced -- would have changed for the U.S. audience.
Even there, it was for clarity, not to make the movie culturally more bland. In a new interview, Pegg says that there was one time the script said"pissed" -- a British euphemism for drunk -- and omitted it in favor of saying"drunk," assuming U.S. audiences might miss the intent and instead think the character was angry."It was a vindication of our intentions, which was to make a film that was exactly that: very, very British," Pegg told The Hollywood Reporter.
In Shaun of the Dead, per the movie's official synopsis,"Shaun is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives with his slovenly best friend, Ed, in a small flat on the outskirts of London. The only unpredictable element in his life is his girlfriend, Liz, who wishes desperately for Shaun to grow up and be a man.
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