Question of the week: Do you have a favourite London-oriented film or tv show? "I'd have to go for Shaun of the Dead - I'm not a big fan of RomCom as a genre, but apparently all it needed was the addition of zombies, and the comedy team from Spaced. The London in Shaun isn't the tourist city or the corridors of power, it's the zone-three urban-suburban streets of London - they mash together places in South and North London - and the big-city necessity of house-sharing into your 20s and 30s because the price of housing is insane. It's eerily realistic, for a film about zombies, and just to add to the verity of the depiction for me, some of the zombies are people I know! (The film was shot on a shoestring budget, so many of the zombie hordes and their victims are members of Spaced forums, rather than professional extras.)
If you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, do also take a look at Spaced, the sitcom that brought the team together, which is equally London-ish.
- Miss Alice
* Photo by RevJim5000, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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