Philosophical zombie

creatures on earth. They consider that all zombies decaying, emotionless, and flesh-eating monsters. According to Simon Pegg’s article “The dead and the quick,” the zombies need to be “Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable… The absence of rage or aggression in slow zombies makes them oddly sympathetic” (Pegg, 2). Pegg explains the stereotype of how people view zombies and claims that death is not a superpower…

alive can remember, let’s hope you have entered the realm of the undead at least once in your life. Whether just randomly stumbling upon the topic in your favorite magazine or being a hardcore dedicated zombie fan, most people past the age of eight years old will more than likely know what a zombie is. How can the details of these intense creatures not be planted in your minds? Rotten flesh, amputated limbs, exposed organs, and the intimidating slow movement of these monsters who were once…

Zombie and Intellectuals All humans are either zombies or intellectuals. No in-betweens. The zombies are the malleable people that are shaped by their environment. Intellectuals are the self-willed people that are very uneasily swayed. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury incorporates both types of individuals to pass on a message everyone can learn from. The characters in Fahrenheit 451 can be divided into two categories–zombies and intellectuals –that teach readers that intellectuals need to help…

Trailer Comparison Essay ‘Deadpool’ directed by Tim Miller and ‘Suicide Squad’ directed by David Ayer both utilise close-up shots as part of their trailers. The ‘Suicide Squad’ trailer commences with closeup shots to introduce all characters which has the effect of making a lasting impression in order to be more memorable. The camera then transitions to a wide shot of a restaurant after exhibiting all the ‘superheroes’ in the prison. The shot has been framed through a window and includes the…

Imagine living in a post-apocalyptic world where living in constant fear of zombies has become a new normal. Every little move that is made or every noise that is made can depend on life or death. Everything someone worked hard for would be destroyed and there would be no where to go for help. Would this push someone over the edge or would this push them to keep trying to survive? This is what The Walking Dead is all about. The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series created…

this era is because we can compare them to the disease and virus outbreaks in today’s world. For example in World War Z, a zombie is trapped in the bathroom when a flight attendant opens the door. Soon after the zombie lashes onto the flight attendant biting her causing her to turn into a zombie. One person after another person gets bitten and in less then 5 minutes the one zombie has turned into over 50. Just like your average chain reaction after one is bitten the others follow. This scene…

Ernest Becker once said, “Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” Hayley says there are only two types of people in the world: zombies and freaks. While Hayley’s aphorism was an admirable effort to display her attempt at a doctrine of ontological truth, Ernest Becker’s adage is a neurostorm…

People have a deep interest in bodies, both living and deceased. Throughout society, there are examples of what the good-looking, healthy, and all over ideal body is, with a billion-dollar industry behind it. There is also an enormous industry behind bodies of the deceased: specialists such as doctors, pathologists, and morticians work with corpses on nearly a daily basis. However, interest in dead bodies has grown astonishingly in the past few decades for a variety of reasons. The idea of the…

about which many movie makers rely on when they are making their own movies about this genre. Zack Snyder jumps into the zombie horror film genre by using George A. Romero’s movie, Dawn of the Dead, as a baseline for his take on the zombie genre. Snyder makes a major update on how the zombies moved, what they looked like, and all of the special effects that come with a zombie horrors movie. Using cinematography…

John Carpenter Pans AMC’s Zombie Series ‘The Walking Dead,’ Says He Didn’t Like it ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of those rare shows that boast of a cult status and massive fan following. It is a rage among horror show aficionados but it looks like some prominent icon from the horror world is not impressed with the zombie series. According to reports, John Carpenter, the man behind popular and successful movies ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Thing,’ has said that he did not like it. He stated that it was just…