'Rollers', 'five-oh', 'pigs', 'the heat', and the 'Po-Po' are just a few of the many references used to call police. In a couple weeks, the creators of the movie Shaun of the Dead are making the name 'the Fuzz' popular again.
The phrase "the fuzz" was made popular by the character Newman from Seinfeld and is the title for the newest cop-spoof movie.
Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz director, said that picking the title was very easy.
"I always thought that 'the fuzz' was the coolest name for the police. Fuzz is an old New York expression from the '30s and became popular again in the '50s and '60s. If I was a policeman, the one word I wouldn't mind being calling is 'the fuzz'. I named it 'Hot Fuzz' because Simon and Nick are hot," Wright said.
Hot Fuzz is a British cop-buddy movie. One officer is London's finest who has the highest arrest record and the other is a small town cop who thinks being an officer of the law is like being an action movie star.
Simon Pegg, who plays the main character, Nicholas Angel, said that Hot Fuzz is different than other police movie parodies.
"We're not mocking the genre. It's slightly more from a parody angle and a spoof angle. It's something that could stand on it's own as a cop movie without the jokes. Not jokes about the genre, but the jokes come from within the movie," Pegg said.
Nick Frost, Pegg's costar in Hot Fuzz, said that he had to do extensive training for his role as a police officer.
"I joined the Hungarian police force, watched Bad Boys 2 a lot, and ate Krispy Kremes even though doughnuts are not that big in England," Frost said.
Hot Fuzz is in theaters on April 20.
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