Zombieland

subgenre are Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead. Zombieland is a film focusing on a young guy called Columbus who is in search for his family, and meets a few people along the way through the zombie apocalypse. Shaun of the Dead focuses on a middle-aged man called Shaun who lives a boring life and is now faced with the zombie apocalypse and losing his girlfriend. This essay will explore the similarities and differences between these two films. The first film of this essay is Zombieland by Ruben Fleischer

The Postmodern Elements of Zombieland A belief adopted in the 1960s, Postmodernism is a culture that questions the certainty of identity. Unlike modernism, which questions the validity of knowledge, postmodernism is skeptical of institutions. Zombieland is an example of a postmodernist film directed by Ruben Fleischer that applies the postmodernism principle of questioning personal identity among four survivors who doubt each other after a plague converts Americans neighbors into zombies that prey

The movie Zombieland (2009) is one of the several movie which accounts for the zombie apocalypse. The director took his own different approach to the creation of the story. His take on the movie, was more of a survival guide if a zombie apocalypse actually happens. In the following paragraphs I’ll exploring the film’s plot and how it creates particular ideas about the film’s diegesis and the meaning the film’s narration creates about love and survival. The film makes use of first person voice over

movies. The movie genres that we have seen over the years have constantly altered itself and improved - from the horror genre for example - Nosferatu (Murnau.F.W , 1922) to Insidious: Chapter 3 (Whannel. L, 2015) and then a blend of genres as seen in Zombieland (Fleischer. R, 2009). As Hayward. S (2006, p. 185) puts it “Clearly, genres are not static, they evolve with the times, even disappear.” In this essay, we shall discuss on the proper way to observe genres and the effects of

“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag, which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag

Whispers circulate throughout the small room before everything suddenly falls quiet as the giant movie screen ahead comes to life. As soon as Zombieland begins, it certainly starts off with a bang; which alerts everyone that they might have perhaps stumbled upon not just any other zombie flick after all. From the twisted beginning to the soft-hearted end, Zombieland brings plenty of action and gore to go around. It also manages to stay incredibly witty and comedic throughout without losing focus on the

as we know it would be in a whole lot of trouble. The undead are everywhere in popular culture. Zombies appear in video games such as Doom, Zelda and Left 4 Dead. They are in movies like 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland. They are in books like those of Max Brooks. However, I am no expert when it comes to everything that zombies are in, just what has caught my attention. Zombies in popular culture first caught my attention when I saw

became obsessed with zombies, leaving monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein far behind. With “The Walking Dead” premiering its first episode on Halloween 2010, and the release of the book Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, 2010 became the year of zombies. Zombieland, World War Z, I am Legend, World War Z all set the bar for the zombie genre in the entertainment industry, and Isaac Marion surpassed that bar. With his book, Isaac Marion added a new twist to the ever growing zombie genre by having a zombie narrator

survive, people have been known to go to great lengths to which people will go in order to ordinarily do. Survival to me means that to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. “The good lie” (the film), ZombieLand (the movie), and the movie Dorry, all three movies experience a difficult obstacle to face for survival. In “The good lie”, Theo, Mamere, Paul, and Abital are considered the “lost boys”. They all go through dark pathways, and their loss of family

these activities, Hollywood creators have taken the same approach as a way of both paying homage and mocking the genre, in addition to creating relatability to the viewers and their criticisms. Two films that emulate this are the 2009 Hollywood hit Zombieland and the Swedish Cult Film Dead Snow. Through an analysis of these two, and their commentary on horror film themes and characteristics, the idea of fandom interaction and interpretation will be seen as having a strong influence of the genre. Moreover