Rebecka Gilliam Professor Paul Stark Hum 2020 December 3, 2013 Can a Zombie Have Memories? How do you classify a zombie? Are they just undead, can they be more? Zombies have the following basic characteristics: undead, brainless, and an unsaturated desire to eat human flesh. Slowly, our society is changing the basic zombie, they still want to consume us, however they are gaining intelligence, thoughts and possibly holding on to memories.
Natasha Johnson Eng. 101 T-Th 12:30-1:45 Brains: To Eat or Not to Eat : A Comparison of Early Zombie Films to the Walking Dead Fast zombies, slow zombies, Haitian zombies, Riot Zombies, Flesh Eating zombies, Intelligent zombies, dumb zombies…..what do these all have in common might you ask? They all originated from the same basic origin: Fear of the dead rising back to life and overtaking our society as we now know it. For some reason the thought of our deceased loved ones coming back to life and preying on our brains strikes fear into the hearts of the living. Within the confinement of these pages I will illustrate what a “zombie” film should and should not entail, and how far the image of the zombie has progressed into our modern day visage of the term.
Joseph Alvarez Period 4 September 6, 2012 Ms. Wu Pride and Prejudice and Zombies In the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the man character Elizabeth has to fight for survival from a mysteries plague from an English village of Meryton. The plague turns people that have died to zombies. She is determined to stop the plague but meets a haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy in her mission to wipe out the zombie menace. In the beginning Elizabeth meets a boy named Darcy and is attracted to him, then wants to go a ball with him. During the ball zombies start coming out of the windows killing the people there but luckily Elizabeth could fight against zombies with her dagger from her dress to slash through zombies till the finally got out of the ball.
From 1968 onward, zombies would grow exponentially in number creating a mass army of the living dead. How did this spread of the zombie disease occur? A person would transform into a zombie if infected with a simple bite of a zombie. The bite would not cause an immediate change but once infected the victim would eventually die from a mysterious sickness and join the ranks of the walking dead. This did not occur with voodoo zombies but only the grave-rising or virus-infected zombies.
ZOMBIE: The cultural phenomenon So what is this cultural phenomenon with Zombies anyway? We know the film industry is teaming with these films, but it also goes beyond that to overtake us in literature and television. We constantly find ourselves drawn to these types of fiction or entertainment in growing numbers. Every person on earth that I do not personably know, or that you don’t know, will be a Zombie when we run out of food and water. The cultural zombie phenomenon is caused by the human preservation instinct, this instinct or knowledge that humanity has already condemned us to extinction.
Prions are a mutated form of a normal protein. These preeon proteins are spread when the body of an infected cow or human is eaten by another being. When in an animal, the proteins actually become severely deformed into a contagious shape, and while in this form, Breeds plaque fibers that slowly eat away at the victim’s brain. A preeon is a small protein linked to certain rare, fatal brain diseases in cows, sheep, humans, and other mammals. Preeon in cattle are from carcasses of scrapie-infected sheep.
Is the movie Fido just another zombie movie, or does it have underlying messages about modern day culture? It’s the 50s and a few decades ago, the earth drifted into some “space dust” which reanimated corpses into zombies. The living populace fought the “zombie wars” (the equivalent of our WWII) for survival until an enterprising company called Zomcom discovered a method of “eradicating” the zombies and a method of domesticating them. Now every family has a zombie to be their slave. The movie has characters that represent different groups of oppressed people in the modern world, Fido and the other zombies represent racism, Mr. Robertson represents heterosexism, and Mrs. Robertson along with other females show sexism.
It looked like it was grinning at Mark. It then started to claw through a hole in Mark`s windshield from the accident and Mark started panicking. He was trying to get out of the car, but his legs were stuck in the dash. The zombie then got half of its arm through the whole and was getting closer and closer to Mark. The zombie then got a hand on Mark’s face and started clawing at it;
Why is the subject so popular now than it was 15-20 years ago? One reason is believability; can this be seen as a reality? Yes, the thought of zombies attacking the general population is farfetched, or is it. Who can say that there is some strain of virus or bacteria that can affect the human body to give the appearance /actions of a zombie. What is more than one strain comes together to form a new strain that has these effects on humans.
In some cases, I can see this to be true. In the movie “Alien Invaders”, the Andes virus infected a small town very quickly. Within hours/days people who were subjected to such turmoil laid dead from this fast acting virus. The Andes virus is derived from rodent feces and decomposition occurs, when disturbed, it becomes air-borne infecting anyone who dares to take a breath while in its path. The rodents are considered life long carriers that are not affected by the virus.