The Walking Legend of World War Zombieland
It's no secret that zombies have become a huge thing over the last decade. The idea of the post-apocalyptic world is fascinating to us. Zombie movies and television shows have been created at a rapid pace to satisfy the need to be entertained by these human-flesh eating zombies. From Zombieland to The Walking Dead, it's all based on the same concepts and story lines, according to Bishop.
Not only are zombies viewed as an imminent death threat to all of mankind, the stories all have post-apocalyptic backdrops, the end of society as we knew it, survivalist fantasies, and the fear of other human survivors. There is also typically a happy or satisfying ending to all of these films and shows. World War Z finds a camouflage, I Am Legend finds a cure, Zombieland continues the life of all main characters in the zombie world, and The Walking Dead's Rick continues to lead his survival group to a safe lifestyle season after season. These all satisfy our needs, and show what we want to happen as viewers. We want to believe that that's what would actually happen if a zombie catastrophe occurred in real life. The world will hopefully never have to experience this outbreak, but I believe many post-apocalyptic, oddly-prepared Americans would be up for and more so excited for the challenge of survival against zombies.
Most of us have at least heard the story of the blockbuster hit, I Am Legend. It happens to be one of my favorite movies ever, mostly because Will Smith is the man. In the opening scene we are introduced already to some of the main ideas of Bishops basic zombie story line. New York City is deserted and rural-altered, obviously making a point that society has collapsed and some sort of apocalypse has occurred. Will Smith is hunting for deer in his Ford GT with his gun in hand, which screams survivalist fantasy. Later on in the movie, Will meets a woman and her son, whom have an interesting altercation at first, both standing their own guard of each other. Identical to Bishop's theory?
Perhaps the epitome of it.
i completely agree with your views on zombies as well as those of bishops. i feel like theres no discrepancy between each zombie plot and the monotony needs to be broken up in this genre already. I mean, can't we think of any other way of zombies to be created than an unstoppable virus with no cure? i feel as if tarantino should venture into this realm of zombie creation and show these hacks how its really done, but hey thats just me. Anyways i completely agree with your views in this blog post and also thought it was very interesting and informative.
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