If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and an appreciation of a director so awesome that Marvel had to fire him on a holiday. For educational purposes only. And as always, feel free to comment, like, or tell me it's not a 747. For further reading/viewing, I highly recommend: David Bordwell's essay on funny framings: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2007/04/30/funny-framings/ David Chen's video essay on Wright's use of close-ups: https://vimeo.com/85311313 And Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJtvuCAsp4

Using Edgar Wright as a positive example, Tony Zhou laments the lack of good visual comedy in American comedies and provides examples from Wright's films (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, etc.) to show how it's done properly.