Tony Zhou, the guy that brought us that oners, is back with a new cinematic exploration, this time taking a look at Edgar Wright‘s comedic timing and framing.
If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and an appreciation of a director so awesome that Marvel had to fire him on a holiday.
Films he compares Wright’s work to include a rash of today’s successful comedies including Anchorman, The Heat, Bridesmaids, This is the End and others. One thing I will say is that if you don’t want to end up watching your studio-made comedy you may not want to watch this video as it may result in you finding more issues while watching your next comedy than you care to.
The video, as Zhou notes in the description, is timed to Ant-Man, which would have found the director delving into entirely new territory. Now, we can only wonder how that project would have turned out.
