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World War Z Film Analysis
Film Analysis A book known as World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War by Max Brooks depicts individuals experience surviving the zombie apocalypse. While on the other hand the film World War Z directed by Marc Forster is about how one individual is trying to find a cure. These two products share the same name but the book and film is completely different from one another. One thing the film and book share is a common theme of survival that can be seen in the movie and in some of the episodes in the book. Both the book and film are centered around fear; distress brings out the survival skills, courage, and unity in people when there is a tough situation to overcome. Survival skill is seen commonly throughout the book, it is portrayed …show more content…
In the book in chapter five it discusses one episode where unity is portrayed in two different ways. Jesika described her event to the interviewer, she talks about the time when her family was at a campsite surviving with other families. These families often traded with one another, helped hunt for food, and brought each other spirits up with singing and dancing. After food and supplies started to run low people started to turn on one another, but they still came together when it came to surviving the zombies. At night when there were threats of zombie people would come together to fight them off, “Someone would sound an alarm and everyone would rally to take them out’ (pg.127, Brooks). In the film unity is shown at the end again, Gerry is at a research facility where he trying to find a cure. Before he finds the lab that he needs to attend the doctors and himself realizes that it is highly infested with 80 zombies. Before Gerry goes after the sample lab two people goes with him instantly. They watch each other backs as they walk through the hall ways and signal one another when an area is clear. Each of the three-member risked their own life to protect one another. Unity was shown in both section, people coming together to survive in one way or another, despite the

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