The first stop on the Wild World Film Tour was England, represented by Pegg and Edgar Wright’s Shaun Of The Dead.  In the film club discussion earlier today, Pegg answered some questions from Bastille about the movie. 

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When asked what he thought the film said about British culture, Pegg replied: “It was supposed to be allegorical, generally, about human beings’ capacity to ignore each other and step over each other when they’re dying the streets – the kind of lack of socialism which feels like it’s burgeoning in the midst of this bizarre crisis. 

“I think the pub is the centre of brit cultural gatherings.  The idea for me and Edgar was you always see in American zombie movies there’s always a SWAT team – with the exception of Night Of The Living Dead, the original, seminal zombie movie.  They often follow extraordinary people, whereas with Shaun it was about the ordinary and the suburban drudgery of fighting zombies.  So… I guess that we’re all lazy alcoholics?”