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The Movie ' Zombies ' By Issac Marion

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Love, romance, and comedies have always been a success in whether it be books or movies. These are genres that throughout centuries have succeeded in standing the tests of time. The author Issac Marion took on this genre with an undead twist. Marion published a book about a zombie, R, and his perspective of the now post-apocalyptic world. As the story progresses, the audience sees what zombie life is, R’s experience of love, and the war between the living and the undead. Three years after publishing the book, Jonathan Levine created the movie adaptation. Zombies, at the time of the movie release, were perceived as romantic in an eerie way. Marion 's original plot changed into more of a romantic/comedy genre that would appeal to the teen, …show more content…

The specific music chosen for the film solely coincided with what was popular at the time of movie production, and what the filmmakers targeted audience, teens and young adults, would respond well to and relate to. Through the filmmakers, careful consideration of what to put in the scenes, what music to use, and even which actors to hire, caused to the movie 's success. The filmmakers interpreted the book 's agents into more teen relatable characters to make the movie relatable and more of a success. Originally the book suggests R’s character as a business type man. Marion described him as wearing black dress pants, gray button up, and a tie which gives him more of a mid to late twenties age range(Rawden). In the book, R has children and a marriage which would also cause for little to no interest in younger audiences since most teenagers and young adults cannot relate to this. This However, the film depicts him more of a teen or early twenties by wearing ripped jeans, simple white tee, sneakers, and a red hoodie. This change in the character’s physical appearance would cause for the younger movie audiences to relate more, connect more, and ultimately causing them to have more interest in the movie. The filmmakers of the movie also chose to pick very young-looking actors to emphasize this teen romance theme in the movie. In contrast, they chose R’s best friend, an older looking actor, to contrast these film’s young leading stars. If

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