8 Movie Plot Points Secretly Introduced Earlier Than You Realised

8. Shaun Of The Dead - The Pub’s Significance

I’m picking on just one specific point here but in one monologue near the beginning of the film, Edgar Wright really just laid out every major plot point of the film under our noses and we were none the wiser.

As Shaun and best friend Ed enjoy a pint at the local, Ed lays out his plans to cheer Shaun up after his girlfriend, Liz, breaks up with him. He proposes, quote, “Do you know what we should do tomorrow? Keep drinking. Bloody Mary first thing, a bite at the King’s Head, a couple at the Little Princess, stagger back here and BANG, back at the bar for shots!”

Much of Shaun’s life revolves around being at the pub it seems, and that’s partially why his girlfriend was so unhappy with him in the first place. In the plans laid out by Ed, things start at the pub and they end at the pub and everything in between is just noise.

Of course by the time the movie has played out and we have ended up back at the pub, the shots at the bar they talk about are far more literal than we first considered. Incidentally everything else he laid out was pretty literal too.