Spaced: 10 Things To Love About Edgar Wright's Hidden Gem
5. Cuts, Flashbacks And Pacing
Edgar Wright's style of filmmaking is known by many of us as something unique in modern cinema.
His work runs with a natural grace, with carefully designed pacing and an often flexible narrative structure. Cut with hints of flashbacks and non-diegetic sounds, in the hands of a less skilled editor these sequences would quickly become messy and confused. Imagine someone else trying to do Baby Driver? Under Wright's direction they gain a sense of finesse and an iconic style.
Spaced gives us the early form, a little more on-the-nose and a little less refined but nevertheless a predecessor to Wright's impressive cinematic motif.
More heavily focused on flashbacks, with elements of the absurd and far more dream sequences, it stands as a stylised work all its own. Paired with Pegg and Stevenson's excellent script work and the performances of the cast, it is a technically engaging series sure to catch the eye of any filmmaking aficionado.
When you compare it to The Cornetto Trilogy and even Wright's work with Scott Pilgrim, you can see his growth as a director. To a budding filmmaker, tracking the evolution of this iconic director will be as enjoyable as it is inspiring.