A wide-ranging discussion of nostalgia, alcoholism, ANT-MAN, fight choreography, horror movies, musicals... the works!
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(Spoiler warning: this interview should be read after you see THE WORLD'S END, which you're all going to do this weekend anyway.)
For a film about five friends reuniting for one last go at a massive pub crawl, THE WORLD'S END is a surprisingly sobering experience. Given that the participants are all hovering around the age of forty, the notion itself reeks of folly at best, desperation at worst. But in the case of the film's protagonist, Gary King, what should look like bottomed-out despair is coated over with two blown decades of never-grow-old delusion. While all of his high school chums have left home to get on with their lives, Gary's still spinning his wheels in 1990. He's all smiles on the outside as he smokes and boozes his life away; it's a frantic overcompensation, but he's not going to admit to feeling anything but wonderful.
Though the laughs are frequent and the craft inventive as ever, THE WORLD'S END finds the typically sweet-natured trio of Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost skewering our nostalgia-obsessed culture in increasingly ruthless fashion. The screenplay by Wright and Pegg draws on the disparate likes of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS '78, THE BIG CHILL and, most notably, WITHNAIL AND I to examine the personal/cosmic toll of refusing to let go of one's past, and the consequences aren't exactly cheery. Being that one of the primary tools used to stave off adulthood is alcohol, it also tackles the always uproarious topic of substance abuse.
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