![]() But just as effective is a scene when a zombie gets on board a commercial airplane, creating an undead wave that starts in coach and scuttles forward. In the film’s showpiece, thousands of zombies attempt to breach a wall surrounding Jerusalem by climbing up the side in a giant mound, like ants. Fortunately, the action sequences are all inventive and well-executed, with the zombies not just attacking but swarming en masse. Like the James Bond of undead pathology, Gerry hops from location to location, from South Korea to Jerusalem to Wales, stopping just long enough for a vital clue and an action scene before moving on. If Gerry travels the globe searching for a cure, his family can stay safe and sound on the ship. They escape the carnage for Newark (not the first place I’d choose for a safe haven), and then are airlifted to an aircraft carrier, where a deal is struck. Caught in the chaos in former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family. We see this process take place in a well-choreographed early scene in Philadelphia, where thousands run from the zombies through the city streets, thousands turning into hundreds as the fast-moving virus creates new hosts. They don’t eat their victims (lucky for a movie that wants a PG-13 rating), but bite quickly, deliver the zombie virus, and move on to the next target. Zombies are so well-known to moviegoers that I should start by classifying this batch - they’re the fast-running kind, who tackle their prey like lions taking down a springbok on the savannah. Having just seen the world get decimated last week by fire, brimstone and well-endowed demons in “This is the End,” I wasn’t sure if I was ready to reboot for yet another end-of-the-world tale (this one a lot more serious than “End.”) But Marc Forster’s “World War Z,” based on Max Brooks’ clever bestseller, delivers the doomsday goods, with a fresh take on the zombie thriller that’s just smart enough to stand apart from the blockbuster pack. Unlike in the novel, where zombie blood caries and passes on the virulent, the film shows that catching blood from the necrolized is not a means of which an uninfected person contracts it.“World War Z” opens Friday at Point, Eastgate, Star Cinema and Sundance.However in the book the zombie transformation takes sixteen hours at most and it actually varies from person to person. In the first case there is actually a voiceover counting down the transformation sequence. The zombies in the film turn almost instantly, in five seconds.Also the zombies are attracted to noises in the film, in the book its never stated if this is so. In the film its the same, but due to the speed of the zombies it looks as if they can be shot anywhere. In the book, the zombies can only be killed when shot in the head. ![]() In the film, however, the zombies have a greater intelligence, almost sadistic, and enjoy chasing their prey down and can work out routes to do so (for instance when the zombies scale the Jerusalem Wall). In the book, the zombies are a tribute to Romero's slow mindless zombies which are so mindless they will plunge off cliffs in pursuit of their prey.In the book, the virus is called Solanum, whereas in the film, the virus is rabies, or the Spanish flu from early 1900s.The infected do not bite people who are seriously injured or already terminally ill, since they would be unsuitable as hosts for viral reproduction.ĭifferences between Book and Movie Versions They can also climb on to each other like ants climbing over the wall. They can sense if a human victim is healthy. They are known to being attracted to noises such as music. Those bitten are transformed into zombies after 12 seconds. Humanity eventually wins the war, but at great cost, in a decade of fighting against the Undead hordes which engulf entire cities. This, coupled with their inability to feel pain, as well their quasi-immortality from their Oxygen Independence is their greatest weapon. A powerful virus, Solanum, infects nearly all of humanity, turning most of them into carnivorous predators (that's more than capable of destroying life on earth), which can have superhuman endurance as they never tire. The patients could not be treated because all cures failed and in 16 to 20 hours they reanimate as the Undead. From him, the outbreak spread global, from black market organ donations, infectious blood, and zombie attacks. In the novel, the Zombies started in China, with "Patient Zero", a young boy, who was fishing with his father but his canoe capsized, and he was bitten by a submerged Zombie. 3 Differences between Book and Movie Versions.
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