Zombies: 'Warm Bodies And Night Of The Living Dead'

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A New Kind of Zombie
The movie Night of the Living Dead, created by George Romero, and the book, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, are completely different stories with completely different zombies. They might both be categorized under what is called the zombie genre, but both have different plots, themes, and were told from completely different viewpoints. The zombies from the movie Night of the Living Dead and the book Warm Bodies are completely different kinds of zombies according to their physical traits, how they interact with the surrounding humans, and how they all think as individuals. The zombies from both works are very different physically. The zombies from the movie Night of the Living Dead are pale and slow. They usually appear in …show more content…

In Night of the Living Dead the zombies do not really interact with the humans; they mainly just try to eat them. In the beginning scene of the movie, the zombie who was attacking Barbra showed almost no emotion on his face. He only kept on attacking. It continued like that for the whole movie, with the zombies constantly attacking. Warm Bodies shows similar behavior in some aspects of the book, but it is completely different in others. In Warm Bodies, the zombies also ate the humans. However the book showed that they did not really need to eat to survive, they just wanted to. They felt a hunger that they could not suppress and went out in groups to kill and eat. However, unlike Night of the Living Dead, the zombies in the book can feel attachment to things. In R’s case he felt an attachment to Julie and brought her back. Though there was some difficulty, he ended up being able to communicate with her. The zombies were able to talk with her, and eventually R was able to fall in love with her. This was one of the elements that led me to believe that the zombies from Night of the Living Dead and the zombies from Warm Bodies are two completely different types of …show more content…

Though Night of the Living Dead is about a zombie apocalypse, the movie is not centered around the zombies. The movie tends to focus on the human people. It allows the audience to observe how normal citizens would probably respond if they were subjected to a surprise apocalypse. The zombies were not used as characters we could relate to or feel pity for, but they were merely tools for the humans to react to. The zombies not being essential characters allowed the movie to focus on themes such as: Desperation and fear can push normal people to use drastic measures. On the other hand, the main character of Warm Bodies was an actual zombie. The central point of the text was that zombies could probably live semi-normal lives with human. Since the zombies were able to communicate their thoughts and feelings, they were able to become important characters that the audience could relate to and get attached to. The themes from Warm Bodies would be more about zombies and humans, as opposed to humans interacting with other

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