I like Zombie movies. Which is weird because I’m not a fan of gore. Indeed, though I lack the lust for flying, dismembered arms, heads, and pinky toes, I have always enjoyed a cut and dry Zombie film. Zombie films are a genre that everybody enjoys because of its stereotypes. The fearless, gun totting hero, the constantly sweaty, tank topped teen, the mouthy pain in the ass that pusses out and dies, and the shotgun wielding old guy that inevitably utters the words “I’m too old for this shit”. These are characters we love, and combined with the guiltless pleasure that we as humans enjoy add up to a good ol’ zombie film. These reasons, however, are not the reason I love Zombie films.
No the guilty secret is that I love zombie movies because they make me feel better. Kind of like the reason we like superheroes, but in reverse. That is to say that I’m better then normal, just that everyone else is dummer. I know its slightly egocentric, but who doesn’t like to feel special? Who doesn’t want to be the one that survived when the world falls apart? I know KT would disagree with me when I say that everybody wants to be better then everybody else. It’s natural to want to be the best, the alpha.
It’s only my opinion, but I don’t think people love blood and violence, I think people love power. We love it when an action star fires a shotgun blast not because we love shotguns, or the death they bring, but the fact that the hero has that power under control, and because we imagine ourselves as the hero, we have that power. It is one of my long-standing beliefs that there is no good our evil in this world, just different levels of power.
It’s a complex idea, ill write more on it later.
No the guilty secret is that I love zombie movies because they make me feel better. Kind of like the reason we like superheroes, but in reverse. That is to say that I’m better then normal, just that everyone else is dummer. I know its slightly egocentric, but who doesn’t like to feel special? Who doesn’t want to be the one that survived when the world falls apart? I know KT would disagree with me when I say that everybody wants to be better then everybody else. It’s natural to want to be the best, the alpha.
It’s only my opinion, but I don’t think people love blood and violence, I think people love power. We love it when an action star fires a shotgun blast not because we love shotguns, or the death they bring, but the fact that the hero has that power under control, and because we imagine ourselves as the hero, we have that power. It is one of my long-standing beliefs that there is no good our evil in this world, just different levels of power.
It’s a complex idea, ill write more on it later.
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