10 Minutes of Hot Fuzz Commentary for The Greater Good | Wiki Weekends

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Hello there and welcome to I think our first Wiki Weekends like movie commentary, right? Yeah.

[00:00:07]>> Yeah, I think so. Um I I'm KL >> and I am Lucas.

[00:00:11]>> And this is just going to be a commentary track for the movie Hot Fuzz if you happen to be listening along at home just as like a podcast. You can sit back, relax, turn the volume up, crack open a beer, and just listen to me and Lucas riff on one of our favorite movies. There was a way to edit this. So you talk in one ear, I talk in the other, and then they watch Hot Fuzz.

[00:00:28]It's like this is it. Me and Luca sat either side of you on the sofa talking about the movie.

[00:00:32]>> I technically could do that, but I feel like that would be really off foot in >> especially if we started like whispering into the microphone.

[00:00:39]>> Exactly. Yeah. But yes, uh we will get started with this commentary now. So >> like shout outs to Simon Peg as well for getting super in shape for this role.

[00:00:48]>> Look at that stride.

[00:00:50]>> And Simon Peg around this time did this several times, right, of like getting in shape. Not like, you know, we're not talking people like doing it for Marvel movies where they're getting absolutely shredded, but did several times where just Yeah, they got like in good shape.

[00:01:08]>> Hi, I'm Nick Frost.

[00:01:10]And I'm Simon P.

[00:01:17]>> And when we're not on the set of our new movie, Hot Fuzz, we just love to work out. But it's a really interesting movie though because apparently like the reason they made this movie is because like Simon Peg and Edgar Wright were talking about it of why are English bobbies always portrayed as like such goobers in media if they're ever portrayed at all.

[00:01:38]>> It was definitely conceived as an antidote to British gangster films and a chance for the British Bobby to kick some ass.

[00:01:47]>> If this film doesn't make the police helmet call, nothing will.

[00:01:53]We've already missed the the Peter Jackson cameo. Did you catch him there, Lucas?

[00:01:57]>> Yeah, Peter Jackson is the Santa that stabbed him in the hand, right?

[00:02:01]>> Yeah, that's like one of the bits of trivia everybody knows. I love that.

[00:02:03]Let's get Martin Freeman in here. Uh who, fun fact, did have a cameo in Shaun of the Dead.

[00:02:09]>> Yes. He was one of the counterparts in Shaun of the Dead when they walked past the other group, right?

[00:02:14]>> Yes. And that was like a joke of um everyone always thinks they've got a good plan for the zombie apocalypse, but imagine if your plan was [ __ ] and you bumped into people with a better plan.

[00:02:22]>> Mhm.

[00:02:22]>> You got somewhere you going?

[00:02:23]>> Uh yeah, we're going to the Winchester, >> the pub.

[00:02:29]>> Yeah.

[00:02:30]>> And that's something that you mentioned with this one of um a lot of police movies just focus on the action, the car chases, the running around like after bad guys find two guns in the air. See, >> that's not what a lot of what police work is. A lot of police work is just standing around doing nothing and doing paperwork. So, we wanted to edit the scenes of them doing paperwork the same way they would an action movie.

[00:02:52]>> I mean, yeah, they've not quite got like Death Note levels of like, I know, I'll take this potato chip. It's like it's not quite as extreme as that, but at least it's not making out like this job is like quite as mundane as it probably is dayto-day, right?

[00:03:07]>> Yes. And I just found that interesting.

[00:03:08]It was as well that he was just outside like do you want us to take this higher?

[00:03:12]>> Bill Knight is just already just waiting.

[00:03:16]>> And here's a lesson for everybody at home of Simon Peg is about to be demoted because he's too good.

[00:03:24]>> You know, demoted is not it's like oh no, we're giving you like a better job in a place that's like nice and quiet where you don't have to deal with all the crime. It's like do you mean the one thing that he loves doing?

[00:03:35]>> Yeah. It's like, you know, the the tall weed gets the scythe.

[00:03:39]>> It's basically the Yeah. the the entire premise of this movie is we're sending you somewhere else cuz you're making all of the rest of like the London Met Police look bad.

[00:03:49]>> Yeah. There's also like a X >> and everyone else is just like, "Thank God we're getting rid of him. He looks awful."

[00:03:55]>> Okay. How do you read this scene? Do you read that as if like he's genuinely liked?

[00:04:00]>> No. I I read that as like, "Thank."

[00:04:03]Yeah.

[00:04:04]>> Okay. Second cameo as well. Kate Blanchet.

[00:04:06]>> Yeah. I mean, what cameo number four already?

[00:04:09]>> Yep.

[00:04:10]>> Technically. Yeah.

[00:04:12]>> And this is one of my favorite parts of the entire movie. It's just a little dude in the back who's like, "Hello."

[00:04:17]>> That's like one of my favorite gags.

[00:04:19]>> It just is like, "Oh, I found someone else. Who is it?" Bob. Hello.

[00:04:24]>> You think I'd date him? And he's like, "I like the joke that he's dressed exactly the same. Does >> Bob look like the kind of person I go out with?"

[00:04:32]>> It's Dave.

[00:04:34]Hello there.

[00:04:35]>> Yeah, I've always read it as like Simon Peg's character is >> obsessive in some way. Like he can never let anything sit.

[00:04:43]>> Well, including that moment of like instead of going through his breakup properly, he's like, "Hang on, that window's broken from the inside, not the outside."

[00:04:50]>> He just can't turn off.

[00:04:51]>> He can't help it.

[00:04:52]>> A really depressing look at his life there, right? He can literally fit his entire life in one suitcase. And the little glimpses to his phone, it's like no messages. And also you see every time it looks at the phone the signal bars going down and what a way to age the movie cuz does anyone like understand what that scene is at this point not being used like >> older phones cuz you know what I've never picked up on that. That's actually a genius little detail of the further he gets away from London, the worse his signal gets of like he's literally been disconnected from >> the hustle and bustle of like the modern world.

[00:05:25]>> Mhm.

[00:05:25]>> I've never picked up on that Luke cuz that's a really interesting observation.

[00:05:30]It's just that little subtle thing of like I feel like the level of detail that Edgar Wright puts into these movies is like every shot like that matters.

[00:05:40]>> Of course. Yeah, we had that one when they were approaching like model village of it can mean the model village, the literal one or the fact they're going to Sanford which is a model village.

[00:05:49]>> Talking to them was enough people struggling it. DAD, >> the best bit is if you slow it down, you see the corner hits him. Oh, >> there we go. Olivia Coleman. Just >> I love this as well. Look at all the things around his head. Like non-committal, disloyal.

[00:06:08]>> Perfect description of his character in the background.

[00:06:10]>> Yes. And Saxon an actual I think he's not an ex police dog. I think he was training to be a police dog and become an actor instead. Didn't want to be a Olivia Coleman just an absolute national treasure.

[00:06:22]>> Yes.

[00:06:23]>> She's so good in everything she does.

[00:06:27]>> Yeah. And like it's weird that she was, you know, in like things like this and Peep Show and then all of a sudden it's like, oh no, she she's moved on. She's like winning Oscars and stuff and then she's like in the Marvel like MCU. I can't even remember what in Oh, it's that secret invasion. That's what I don't.

[00:06:44]>> Yeah, because she's com. She's [ __ ] awesome. One of my favorite like anecdotes about a film was when she was in um I forget what it was now. She was in like the Iron Lady I think and um Meryill Street was putting in like a big goofy fake um Margaret Thatcher teeth >> and she went like she took a picture selfie with um Olivia Coleman. Oh, I love this. The fact he doesn't move. She took a photo of Olivia Coleman and went, "Okay, now let's take one without our big goofy teeth." And Olivia Cole's like, "No, these are real."

[00:07:15]>> Oh no.

[00:07:16]>> And I went, "Mine are real.

[00:07:23]I think this is where as well where like Nick Frost character falls in love with him. And are you aware of the fact that Nick Frost character was his two characters rolled into one?

[00:07:31]>> Oh, right. Okay. I'm not.

[00:07:33]>> So, originally there was going to be like a love interest in this part and like obviously his arc was going to be like, you know, falling in love with that lady. I went that's too cliche.

[00:07:44]Let's just make him like have a bromance. And they left all the love interest lines and just gave them to Nick Frost. so good. And you can kind of tell in moments like where he says, "You ever been stabbed?" And Nick Frost looks at him with like admiration and like, "Wow, what a man."

[00:07:58]>> That it was actually fairly arbitrary really. And and the real love story was between Angel and Danny. So we cut.

[00:08:04]>> There's the scene obviously when we're sitting on the sofa when Nick was playing it up so much, looking down at my lips and stuff, making it look like we're about to kiss. But I got to love that moment cuz I hope people in the audience are going, "Oh my god, they're going to do it." And there is Rory Macan aka the Hound from Game of Thrones. It's one of his earliest acting roles.

[00:08:23]>> Mhm. Because I remember I was recently looking up clips for Hot Force for a different Wiki Weekends video and I came across it and it's like where do I know that guy from? And >> also rip in peace Chuck Norris just died today.

[00:08:37]>> Died this morning to he didn't die. He just decided to stop being alive.

[00:08:41]>> I I thought you were making a joke about like his career or something. I >> whose career died in the night, let's be honest. But he physically died today.

[00:08:51]>> Oh [ __ ] Right. Yeah. Somefield. I believe this like this may have been like >> a Summerfield might have been used cuz like Edgar Wright originally worked in a Summerfield when he was younger.

[00:09:01]>> He worked as a shelf stacker and he has a cameo as a shell stacker.

[00:09:09]>> Oh, I [ __ ] love this. Like it's the dio.

[00:09:13]>> IT'S LIKE AH A >> HE'S LIKE no and the thing is it does look really violent though right when you scream out >> I want to get like bolognese in my eye interesting way as well of like they don't want to kill anybody but they do want to have like the classic squibs that you get in an action movie >> so they have like the bolognese exploding the jam pots like exploding on his head >> cuz obviously if you had squibs and huge big explosions of blood that suggest the person died and this is a >> action movie where nobody dies.