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This is the first in a line of threads I'd like to do, explaining the rules of a movie in a particular class (yeah yeah, I know... Scream). I just got back from Shaun of the Dead (loved it) and thought this would be fun, and thought I'd start off with zombies, since they are pretty easy.
Please feel free to start your own if you'd like to do one.
LOOK AT THIS! There are rules to this thread, to save it from complications, derailments, etc, which I won't be too picky about. For each post, you must tell which of the following you are doing (and you can only do one of them per post, and no double posting):
1) you can choose to revise up to 2 of the already existing rules. You can do so by adding information, taking away information, or just about editing in any way. After revising, explain why you are revising it. Cite the rule you are revising.
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2) you can add up to 2 rules, or delete 1 rule, that you think are seperate from already existing rules. Explain why you add/delete the rules.
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3) You can debate up to 3 rules, without revising them. Cite the first rule, debate it, cite the second, debate it, cite the third, debate it.
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4) You can do 1 revision of a rule that you cite, and 1 addition of a rule. Explain both the revision, and the addition.
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5) You can do 1 debate, and 1 addition of a rule. Explain the addition.
Note: Adding, deleting, or revising is not final. I don't expect it to be at any point. However, if someone does something, and no one contests it, it will remain that way until someone does so. -----------------------
That's it for the rules. To have things be fun, try to cite as many movies as you can think of.
RULES OF ZOMBIE MOVIES:
Definition: Zombie n. - The walking dead (note: not the undead), feasting on human flesh, and producing more zombies by doing so.
A. Killing a zombie.
1. To kill a zombie, you must destroy the brain, or the brains connection to the body. - Generic Zombie Rule
B. Details about zombies you should get when faced by them:
1) How fast can they run? Compare it to how fast you can run. Know this detail very well.
2) How do your zombies sense the living? Some zombies can smell the living, some can just sense it, and some will just attack what looks like its alive.
3) Where did the zombies originate? If a disease, it will have a start location, where it will be the greatest population of it.
4) How long from being infected, till you actually become a zombie? This varies.
C. Becoming a zombie rules:
1. You get bitten. - Generic Zombie rule.
2. The blood of an infected comes in contact with your blood. - 28 Days Later
3. If this happens to be an act of God and Hell really is full, just dying with your brain still intact will turn you into a zombie.
D. Survival
1. When traveling, travel in small groups, or in large army caravans.
a)The small groups will allow you to cover more distance, by not having to worry about obtaining accomadating vehicles. It will also allow you ration food supply until you can secure a safe location. - 28 days Later, Dawn of the Dead (2004)
b) the large army caravans will allow you protection, and will get you to a secure location, provided that the military does not accept anyone who has been infected.
2) Have a rule with whoever you are around, that once bitten/infected, you will notify the group. This will allow the group to give you a "I'm going to die" party to celebrate the last of your life. It will also allow the least casualties. Once you notify them, and are ready, you must be shot in the head. Enforce this rule on your group, and accept this rule if it happens to you. Groups need good examples.
3) You need to have guns, and chainsaws. Lots of them.
E. Finding a secure location
1) Your location needs to have food at it.
2) Your location needs to have only one access to the roof, which you get from the inside. This is so you can put out some sort of signal for a plane
3) Your location needs to have access to a TV/ internet. Also if the location has guns or chainsaws up to wazoo, that would be good.
4) Once there, find all your exits. Know them well. Secure them well. Also figure out where the closest vehicles are to you, incase of immediate evacuation.
5) It's a well known fact in every zombie movie, that every "secure location" still has at least 2 zombies around the place, in some locked room. Check every room once you get there.
6) No location is secure until you can be absolutely sure no one in your party is infected. Once the above is done, seperate into men and women and do a full body check for bite marks, scratches, wounds, etc. Anyone found with them, should be quarentined until the amount of time determined in B4 has past, to be sure. Follow this procedure if anyone outside your group wants to be a part of it. If they don't want to agree to it, or are found with it and don't agree to D2, offer to kill them on the spot.
F. Evacuation/changing locations.
1) Again, know where the closest vehicles are to you. In any situation with zombies, given enough time, your secure location will fail you.
2) Find any and all supplies around that allows you to secure that vehicle, if you have time to. Example: you can put big blades around the car to cut off the legs of the zombies, so they don't run after you. Zombies will run after your vehicle.
3) Know where the closest docks are. Zombies don't swim. Islands are nice.
Beating all zombies:
1) You don't. Zombies are like a flood, it will just keep coming. They will always outnumber you in the global scale.
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Sorry, I knew that being on AIM would keep me from doing this. Whether or not thats a good thing is up for debate. I'll get on now for a few minutes.
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Zombie question- can a Zombie master be one of the walking dead himself? My husband and I were debating that last week. I say they can't.
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A 2) The only exception to the brain phenomenon is the hand. For some reason hands and attached arms of most zombies can and do have wills of thier own, allowing them to attack non-zombies on their own volition--(Various scenes in the Ash movies, and Pirates of the Caribean)
Also, origins;
C 4) Curse, either by some Ancient Incan/Aztec God or Gypsy (Pirates of teh Carribean)
5) Through other acts of misplaced science--Frankenstien. (I could argue that, accept for eating of his victims, the original MOVIE Frankenstiens were and behaved much like classical zombies. Nano-technology, new-diet pills and brain wave manipulation through video, internet, or large ugly antenna can also create a zombie state on masses of the population.)
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Also, I wouldn't call the PotC Zombies. They still had full control of their faculties. The scary part about Zombies is that they are automatons, but still retain the barest remembrance of their past lives.
To that end I add the rule: Stay clear of places a lot of people go to regularly. Zombies cluster at the places they clustered in life. Therefore malls, schools, the DMV, and amusement parks are off limits. Also, Zoos. Animals may be able to be zombified.
My friends and I are in the middle of formulating an anti-zombie plan. We've designated a base and everything...
quote:1) You don't. Zombies are like a flood, it will just keep coming. They will always outnumber you in the global scale.
In reality, the number of dead people with enough muscle, intact skeletal joints, and a brain that hasn't decomposed, is really quite small compared to populations in general. Maybe one legitimate zombie canidate for every 10,000-50,000 able bodied men and women.
You might say that the people the zombies could kill would make up for the difference in numbers as they turn into zombies themselves, but for every zombie that kills a living human, there'd be ten times that many zombies incapacitated. Zombies in movies are usually very strong, but EXTREMELY slow, and the US military combined with citizens with guns would make short work of them.
This changes with the movies that only require a bite or even just blood contact to transmit the "zombiness", like in Resident Evil or 28 days later. In this case, yeah, the world population would certainly be at risk, but if caught early enough, some well placed nukes could eliminate the threat.
Lastly I gotta say that THE prime weapon for zombie killing is the pump action 12 gauge shotgun. A handgun is going to do just about jack squat, and even a machine gun would likely leave most of the brain intact, but a shotgun could turn a zombie head into so much red mist .
quote:Clearly, modern zombie movies have ruined zombie movies.
No. You are wrong. 28 days later was a great zombie film with intelligent victims and some great sequences. Oh and Shaun of the Dead? A romantic comedy. With zombies. What could be better?
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I learned something interesting in my family history class (one class was at the local cemetary). In cemetaries in the USA, enormous effort is made to keep the body intact. Embalming is quite popular in the USA. The coffin is sealed and put in a cement box in the bottom of the grave that is sealed again before being filled. This rarely happens outside the states: in places in Europe, you must be buried in a wooden coffin with nothing but dirt. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and in about a thirty year period, there really isn't anything left. In some cases, they can actually reuse the plot.
Taking this into consideration of situation described in rule C3, the US is the worst place to be, given the higher number of preserved bodies in cemetaries.
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I know Zombies are strong, but would they be strong enough to bust out of a sealed metal coffin which is sealed in concrete?
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Without much in the way of medical equipment, it was very difficult to distinguish between death and hypothermic coma*. Embalming in the US came about cuz folks were weirded out about possibly being buried alive**. So they made sure the body was dead, dead, dead.
* Which led to the ritual of the wake: ie observing the body for a few days after an apparent death before burial/cremation/etc.
** Hence the market for coffins with breathing tubes and strings leading to bells on the surface, etc.
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