Shaun Of The Dead Analysis

The core myth of this genre is we all live our lives like zombies, so used to our routine. Shaun of the Dead definitely remythologize the core myth, play with it a whole lot and satisfied every aspect of that point they were trying to make. We are so used to our daily life routines, that a lot of times we don’t noticed or realized what’s going on around us and Shaun of the Dead used the zombies as a metaphor of us. We are like the zombies walking around and going through life and content with our routine. A really great example is the beginning of the film. Simon Pegg’s character Shaun, starts out going to work in a bus full of people already looking like zombies. So used to their life routine, with such blank looks on their faces. Some looking sleepy, some looking tired, some just looking lost and it makes you think wow, this is really how some of us look sometimes. If we pay attention to our daily lives, we will see our routines repeats over and over, specially adults. Some do it happily, some do it with hate dragging themselves to get through their days like zombies. …show more content…
Comparing this film Shaun of the Dead to Frankenstein, it’s not much of a comparison, except they are both horror genres. As Frankenstein was so focused on “Man Playing God”, Shaun of the Dead’s focus was on us and our daily lives. I think Shaun of the Dead’s not only poke fun of us, but it also was trying to give us the message. The message was, sometimes we really need to pay for attention to our lives and grasp the most meaningful of it all before it’s too late. Of course, doing all that in very gory, disgusting, but funny ways. An example scene is, when Shaun was losing his step dad, they finally realized that they loved each other and said their goodbye with as much love as they could. Love they never knew they felt before about each