{"id":1732,"date":"2013-10-23T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2015-04-22T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:35:35","slug":"1732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"World War Zuh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zombie<\/a>I watched this cool flick the other night. It was about zombies, so I was pretty happy. Anytime the undead feast on human flesh I will buy a ticket to watch it\u2026or download it. It was a good film. There was lots of action, good acting, zombies eating people, Israel, everything you\u2019d want in a film. But as I watched Brad Pitt run around the globe trying to solve a zombie crisis, I found myself saying:<\/p>\n

I thought this was called World War Z<\/i>.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve seen the movie and read the book, then you have surely noticed the major differences between them. \u2018Major differences\u2019 being a euphemism for \u2018didn\u2019t have shit in common.\u2019 Rambo<\/i> is a more closely related interpretation of Webster\u2019s Dictionary<\/i> than the film World War Z<\/i> is to its literary namesake.<\/p>\n

If you have only seen the movie, then I\u2019m betting you have heard all the hoopla concerning the differences and shrugged off the controversy. Since the film has been out a while, the rest of you have probably heard this all before, and are thinking \u2018Wow, he really does come late to the show.\u2019 And if you are, I\u2019d like to remind you that at my (deeply disturbed) blog, the motto is: come for the stale pop culture references, stay for the Hobbit jokes.<\/p>\n

The real bummer is that World War Z<\/i> (the book) is so much more than a zombie book. It’s damn good and special and I was so looking forward to seeing it in film version. Its style and structure is based on Stud Terkel\u2019s work The Good War<\/i> which is a Pulitzer Prize winning oral history about World War II. World War Z<\/i> (the book) has so many creative and clever aspects to it that at every page I grew more fascinated, gripped, and disturbed.<\/p>\n

In the book, the French underground fights zombies in the canals and catacombs under Paris. There are characters like the blind Japanese gardener and the atrophied video game geek. There are lobos, the battle for Yonkers, and Paul Redeker. And then of course the pilot who bails out over a zombie infested zone and goes through a mental breakdown of sorts to get back home. And this book leaves you with the (creepy as hell) realization that there are millions of zombies still existing at the bottom of the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n

And while World War Z<\/i> (the movie) is agita-inducing fun, well done, and has a nice twist, it doesn\u2019t share any \u2013 as in, not one \u2013 of the above mentioned clever or creepy points that the book brings forth. And for that reason, I am led to believe that this movie was made so that Brad Pitt could cash in on the title World War Z<\/i>. And that sucks.<\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t like the precedent this utilizes. The gist being that when a company buys a book’s film rights, they can completely disregard everything that makes the book the book as long as they stay within the same extraordinarily basic theme?<\/p>\n

I guess I am afraid of the day that I’ll see the western romantic comedy film Blood Meridian<\/i>. Or maybe it’ll be A Soldier of the Great War<\/em> featuring Sylvester Stallone as a disgruntled WWI vet out for revenge in Italy. Soon we\u2019ll all flock to the theatres for The Cat in the Hat<\/i> starring Garfield. I guess it couldn\u2019t be worse than the Mike Myers version.<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re mulling over the future film versions of books you love, I\u2019d like to offer my debut film for $15.99. It\u2019s a short piece, shot while visiting my family this past summer. It\u2019s called The Hobbit.<\/i><\/p>\n

Any other points to bring up here?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched this cool flick the other night. It was about zombies, so I was pretty happy. Anytime the undead feast on human flesh I will buy a ticket to watch it\u2026or download it. It was a good film. There was lots of action, good acting, zombies eating people, Israel, everything you\u2019d want in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1EvEu-1732","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}