It’s
already been established that its success at the box-office didn’t translate to
the critics (including us), mainly because the screenwriter “re-arranged” the
source material by Max Brooks to fit with their PG-13 label, but we aren’t here
today only to discredit the movie poor adaptation of the film as well as its
departure for its genre.
It’s
a fact that sometimes adaptations leave something’s of the source material
behind, because writers, directors and producers feel that it either won’t work
on screen or it’s just repeating what happened in a previous scene, and that is
fine, but when the end is completely changed from its source just so people at
the MPAA (Motion Picture Association Of America) can give the film a PG-13 rating
and therefor make the film appeal to a bigger audience, then that’s just wrong,
but that’s what happened to World War Z.
Spoiler
Alert
In
the end of the film, Gerry (Brad Pitt) sends out a message to the world saying
that if you inject yourself with a non-lethal virus you can survive the zombie
horde, because zombies won’t kill and eat people who are infected with
something. After that he is reunited with his family in a refugee camp in Nova
Scotia. So the ending doesn’t make any sense because they want to a make a
sequel, Zombies don’t people who are sick? What kind of theory is that? It’s
rubbish.
In
the original source, the book by Max Brooks, the plane doesn’t crash, it
arrives safely in Moscow and then all hell breaks loose:
“The
elderly and the sick are executed and the healthy people, including a very
shaken Gerry, are immediately drafted into armed service, though not before one
particularly nasty Russian soldier takes Gerry’s cell phone. The story then
jumps forward an unknown amount of time and we catch up with Gerry, who now has
a full beard and has been a part of Russia’s zombie-clearing squad at least
long enough for it to have changed to winter. He looks almost dead inside, but
the reality is that over this time he’s become an experienced and ruthless
zombie killer, and he’s the leader of his own equally capable unit.”
Although
this one of the major (how do I put it nicely) “mistakes”, changes in the film,
I assure you that there are more. (See here)
And
people might say: “Oh but the material in the book is two dark and depressive”,
then I say: “don’t make the damn movie!”
Regarding
a possible sequel to this disaster, during a premiere of World War Z at the 35th
Moscow International Film Festival, star Brad Pitt told THR:
“There’s
enough to mine from the book. We could barely get a fraction of the book in. So
we’ll see. We’ll see”
0.1% perhaps?
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