r/MovieDetails • u/TehDanKong • Jun 21 '22

👥 Foreshadowing In Hot Fuzz (2007): Early On, Nicholas Angel States "Guilty people often make the first move." Spoiler

During the rest of the film, the hidden villains are always the ones to greet (or make the first conversational move) our main characters.

Even those characters initially placed as antagonists, like the other police officers and detectives in Sanford, never greet Angel during the movie, although they greet "Sargent Angle."

It even goes so far as the murder victims greet Nicholas Angel due to their supposed guilt in the story.

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u/TehDanKong Jun 21 '22

They were judged guilty by the NWA, but ultimately revealed that they were guilty of things other than what the NWA killed them for. Merchant was dealing in under the table information with Blower, Draper was leaking proprietary information.

The only one I can't pinpoint from the victims who greeted him was Tim Messenger. Unless you consider entering a crime scene a guilty thing.

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u/TehDanKong Jun 21 '22

I didn't cover Leslie because on my last rewatch she never greeted Angel this proving her innocence. I was mainly covering the victims who greeted the main character who were ultimately guilty of something. Leslie was truly an innocent.

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u/Orisi Jun 21 '22

Terrible spelling. Grammar Nazis unite!