Harry Potter Effigy in Shaun of the Dead?

[Eirik]

I saw Shaun of the Dead tonight (SPOILER COMING UP) and enjoyed it very much, largely because I could really identify with the hero's plan to get his girl and his mom and get to the safety of his favorite pub to ride out the zombie menace.  The way he pictured it in his head was both hilarious and completely reasonable to me.

But my favorite part was something that occurred to me and I think it must have been intended by the director.  The girlfriend's friend's jerk boyfriend is a dweeb with a Harry Potter haircut and Harry Potter glasses - he looks so much like Harry Potter that it just had to be intentional.  Toward the end he gets grabbed by zombies and in the movie's only real foray into non-cartoonish really nasty graphic violence he gets his guts ripped out, arms ripped off and decapitated in that order.  I really think this was an intentional shot at the (in my opinion) excreble Harry Potter series.  At least I'd like to think this is the case.  Did anyone else get this impression?

[Mr_Vindictive]

Eirik,

Glad you enjoyed Shaun Of The Dead.  Fantastic flick.  If you watch the film with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's commentary then you'll see that they constantly compare Dylan Moran to Harry Potter.  I believe they even mention they modeled the character around what would happen to Harry Potter if he grew up and started dating Britney Spears - Lucy Davis in this case.

[Eirik]

I'm glad to hear that.  A character like that is EXACTLY where Harry Potter would be headed in real life!  I have to say that between Shaun of the Dead and Dog Soliers, the Brits have come up with two of the best and funniest horror movies of the last few years.

Normally I don't watch with commentaries turned on, because I enjoy the movie more without them and I just don't have the patience to sit through the movie again just to listen to what the directors were thinking.  Thanks for passing that along.